Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1975 onwards the rising crime-rate is justifiably referred to as in a stage of ‘ hyper-crisis ’ ( Kinsey et al . , |
| 2 | It would n't surprise me to hear it was locally referred to as the sugar sifter ( a metaphor at last ! ) , one of those useless gadgets dispensing too little or too much in cheap cafés . |
| 3 | The precise costing of the alternatives was difficult ( particularly since the nationalised rail and coal industries both refused to give guidance on their future prices which were a crucial element in the analysis ) , but by 1950 a working party chaired by Sayers concluded that , on balance , a higher-voltage superimposed network — Citrine insisted it be more elegantly referred to as the ‘ Supergrid ’ — would be worthwhile . |
| 4 | Luckily the victim put up a fight and a couple of passers-by joined in , so that the assailant failed to accomplish what the local newspaper delicately referred to as ‘ his appalling purpose . ’ ’ |
| 5 | But the case is widely referred to as ‘ the Baltimore affair ’ because of the surprising lengths to which he has gone to defend Dr Imanishi-Kari . |
| 6 | The Z1 Carbonate is also widely referred to as the Zechsteinkalk and in N.E. England it is known locally as the Lower and Middle Magnesian Limestone ( Brueren 1959 ; Füchtbauer 1964 and 1972 ; Richter-Bernburg 1955 ; Rhys 1975 ; Smith 1980 ; Taylor 1981 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ; van Adrichem-Boogaert and Burgers 1983 ; Wagner et al . |
| 7 | The fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina , coupled with the forced expulsions of one ethnic group by another ( in particular of Moslems by Serb forces ) — a practice widely referred to as " ethnic cleansing " , precipitated a major increase in the numbers of people fleeing their homes in June and July . |
| 8 | I like somewhere to go to in the morning . |
| 9 | the descriptive matter printed below an illustration , mostly referred to as a caption . |
| 10 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 11 | This is loosely referred to as an Ehlers transformation ( Ehlers , 1957 ) . |
| 12 | As a result , what is often loosely referred to as the ‘ environmental movement ’ or ‘ the environmental lobby ’ now encompasses an enormous range of groups from anarchic ‘ eco-freaks ’ to establishment institutions like the Countryside Commission and from small , parochial amenity societies to multi-national pressure groups like Friends of the Earth . |
| 13 | Afghan rugs employing the typical Afghan " Elephant 's foot " ( or Gulli ) gul are rarely referred to as Bokharas , and are usually marketed under the name of the weaving village , district or tribe , or simply as Afghan rugs . |
| 14 | Paper records exist in the various departments , but they tend to be self-monitored , and are rarely referred to by other departments . |
| 15 | UKCCCR guidelines n the handling of animals for laboratory studies were rigorously adhered to throughout these investigations . |
| 16 | From being a peripheral aspect of police practice , unrecognized in the courts and rarely adverted to as a ground for arrest , detention followed by interrogation has become a central pivot in the battle against crime . |
| 17 | While Robson 's view is , today , largely rejected by academic observers , the agency model is still widely adhered to by many practitioners at local level — both councillors and officers — who in the second half of the 1980s see central controls inhibiting their freedom to act in what they regard as the local interest . |
| 18 | Although the court order should specify a time-limit in which the conveyance must be completed ( so that compliance can be enforced — see Chapter 8 ) such time-limit is rarely adhered to in practice . |
| 19 | David Clark 's committee of 25 years ago , irreverently referred to in some quarters as the ‘ Dave Clark Five ’ although it contained 13 people , took as its main brief the worsening financial position of the game consequent upon the postwar trend of falling attendances for first-class matches and declining membership of county clubs . |
| 20 | Newton , for example , she merely refers to as ‘ a sober , silent , thinking lad ’ , a description that contrasts markedly with Storr 's : |
| 21 | Students would lose the right to social security benefits , but the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals last night pledged to fight this element — only referred to in the bill 's preface — throughout its parliamentary passage and the courts if necessary . |
| 22 | This committee , made up of government representatives , was sometimes grandiosely referred to as the ‘ Spaak II Committee ’ ( after the body which had drawn up the Rome Treaties in the 1950s ) . |
| 23 | Even in the nineteenth century the total revenue raised from parents in industrial schools only amounted to between 2.5 and 5 per cent of expenditure , while in the period 1948–69 the parental share of the costs of children in care amounted only to between 4 per cent and 6.5 per cent . |
| 24 | ( These people who have both the primary disease and the family disease are somewhat less than ingenuously referred to as " double winners " . ) |
| 25 | Following its defeats in municipal elections and in elections to the House of Councillors in July 1989 [ see pp. 36800-01 ] , the LDP had embarked upon a programme aimed at reasserting and regaining the political influence which had been damaged not only by the scandals but also by the imposition of an unpopular 3 per cent general consumption tax [ GCT — see p. 36618 , where it is wrongly referred to as a value added tax ] and by the liberalization of import controls in the agricultural sector [ see p. 36800 ] . |
| 26 | 15.1.2 neither completion of this Agreement nor publication of the Work will constitute or evidence any breach of any partnership or other contract or any breach of any contractual , fiduciary or other duty between the Authors ( or either of the two individuals together referred to as ‘ the Authors ’ ) or the Company or any third party ; or give rise to any other liability on the part of the Authors ( or either of the two individuals together referred to as ‘ the Authors ’ ) or the Company to any third party ; or give rise to any liability on the part of the Publisher to any third party . |
| 27 | 15.1.2 neither completion of this Agreement nor publication of the Work will constitute or evidence any breach of any partnership or other contract or any breach of any contractual , fiduciary or other duty between the Authors ( or either of the two individuals together referred to as ‘ the Authors ’ ) or the Company or any third party ; or give rise to any other liability on the part of the Authors ( or either of the two individuals together referred to as ‘ the Authors ’ ) or the Company to any third party ; or give rise to any liability on the part of the Publisher to any third party . |
| 28 | The questions were raised in proceedings brought against the Secretary of State for Transport by Factortame Ltd. and other companies incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom , and also the directors and shareholders of those companies , most of whom are Spanish nationals ( hereinafter together referred to as ‘ the applicants in the main proceedings ’ ) . |
| 29 | On Oct. 3 the German Democratic Republic ( GDR or East Germany ) ceased to exist when the five Länder ( states ) which had been re-established on its territory in July 1990 [ see p. 37661 ] became part of the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG , hitherto referred to as West Germany ) . |
| 30 | No object of thought that is not capable of being descriptively referred to in such a fashion can be significantly posited as an ontological item existing in the modus " per se " . |