Example sentences of "refers [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 2 | Completed family size sometimes refers only to the number of surviving children . |
| 3 | It is via these windows that the system informs the Offline Operator what is happening and requests a media item to be physically mounted or dismounted on the appropriate media unit ; in this case mounting refers only to the action of placing a media item onto a media unit . |
| 4 | It refers only to the cause of a difference not to a whole course of development . |
| 5 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 6 | This ‘ difference ’ refers not to the difference in the law of the actual topic under study ( for that is to confuse the weakness in the technique with the whole rational for undertaking a comparative approach — if the law is not different why compare ? ) . |
| 7 | The phrase damnatio memoriae ( formal condemnation of an emperor following his death ) refers not to the repealing of the acts of an unpopular emperor but to the destruction of his images and the elimination of his name from inscriptions . |
| 8 | It follows that there is a close , but quite unexplored , relation between discourse deixis and mention or quotation ; thus in the following example ( from Lyons , 1977a : 667 ) : ( 91 ) A : That 's a rhinoceros B : Spell it for me it refers not to the referent , the beast itself , but to the word rhinoceros . |
| 9 | Chairman er ca n't really use that refers directly to the Council . |
| 10 | The statutory form that a responsible medical officer must complete to extend detention ( whether or not the patient is on leave of absence at the time ) refers unambiguously to the need for treatment in hospital . |
| 11 | It refers also to the reproduction of the labour force . |
| 12 | He refers also to the island tradition that woods were destroyed by Viking invaders ( Danes , Norwegians ) . |
| 13 | The title of Dequasie 's recently published memoirs , The green flame , refers both to the naivety of the team and the green flame of burning diborane . |
| 14 | A main aim of the White Paper is to improve services , and the document refers repeatedly to the need to reduce waiting lists . |
| 15 | The title refers ironically to the fact that the space is not an object but a vaccum which we endow with its physical attributes . |
| 16 | The word ‘ changing ’ in the title refers mainly to the electrification of some of these lines , and Vic 's talk was largely a record of these lines as they were , with Deltics , Class 31's , 37 's and 47 's and Sprinters of Class 150 and even 156 , interspersed with slides of the overhead wire installation , and the Class 317 's and 321 's to be seen now . |
| 17 | It all refers back to the lack of acceptance of women in the society . |
| 18 | This really refers back and I think the time refers back to the discussion that we had under the er liaison conference . |
| 19 | According to Halliday 's analysis , Yeats 's repeated use of the definite article in combination with an adjective before a noun ( ‘ the great wings ’ , etc. ) is unusual to the extent that , in contrast with most English usage , the article in this combination does not define anything , but instead refers back to the title ( it is ‘ anaphoric ’ rather than ‘ cataphoric ’ ) . |
| 20 | The it in the second sentence refers back to the ball . |
| 21 | Thus " the engine " in ( 3 ) , ( 5 ) and ( 11 ) refers back to the engine introduced in ( 1 ) ; " the house " in ( 14 ) refers back to the low cottage introduced in ( 13 ) . |
| 22 | er , if the whole there in the sixth line refers back to the whole of being in the fourth line then it would be erm not the one but intellect . |
| 23 | He sometimes refers wistfully to the possibility . |
| 24 | The last sentence refers particularly to the development of the notion of ‘ economic duress ’ as creating liabilities for trade unions . |
| 25 | Without adducing any real evidence ( he refers sometimes to the dialogue given to women characters in novels or plays by men ) , Jespersen tells us women speak more softly and politely than men , have smaller and less varied vocabularies , use diminutives like teeny weeny , construct their sentences ‘ loosely , and leave them unfinished , all the while jumping from topic to topic . |
| 26 | This refers primarily to the provision of services under Part III of the Act as discussed in Chapter 2 . |