Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] refer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on . |
| 2 | Old age abuse is a term that can be used more properly to refer to situations where it happens that the elderly person is abusing the carer ( Case Study 4.2 ) . |
| 3 | The inter-relationship of body and dress so self-consciously referred to in many of Kahlo 's most polemical works ( Fig. 12 ) has been strangely inverted by her current popularity . |
| 4 | Most , however , did not even refer to education as relevant to economic growth . |
| 5 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
| 6 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that , although the definition of ‘ family proceedings ’ in section 8 of the Children Act 1989 did not specifically refer to the provisions in Part III of the Act , the section was to be read with section 92(2) of the Act which made it clear that all applications to the justices under the Act were family proceedings ; that , accordingly , the application to the justices for a secure accommodation order under section 25 in Part III of the Act were family proceedings ; and that , therefore , the statements of evidence and the psychiatrist 's report should have been admitted in evidence in accordance with the provisions of the Children ( Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence ) Order 1991 ( post , pp. 91E–G , H — 92A ) . |
| 7 | It is characteristic of the Government that although the Minister spoke for one quarter of an hour , he did not once refer to new clause 2 or defend the Government 's record . |
| 8 | In the sixteenth century the word ‘ empire ’ did not usually refer to a state with transoceanic possessions of this sort . |
| 9 | He quotes examples , such as Ley Rock , near Tintagel , and Bonsall Leys , high up on the Derbyshire moors , to demonstrate that the word did not always refer to pasture . |
| 10 | The terms ‘ old age ’ and ‘ retirement ’ are often used interchangeably , but they do not necessarily refer to the same things . |
| 11 | No , they do n't often refer to one another do they ? |
| 12 | but we do n't usually refer to it as Clog 's theory or anything like that . |
| 13 | I 've already briefly referred to item ten , and that is we 've had to increase the numbers in registration inspection during the current year , and that demand will continue , there is no provision in the base for the ongoing costs for staff who 're appointed . |
| 14 | It is true that the section does not expressly refer to proceedings by way of injunction as such ; but , as I have previously said , the breadth of the section is such as to embrace injunction proceedings , brought under the power subsequently conferred by section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 , when such proceedings are necessary . |
| 15 | Thus if the clause does not expressly refer to negligence , the clause may still exclude liability for negligence provided that ( 1 ) the wording is capable of covering negligence and ( 2 ) there is no other head of liability to which the clause could apply . |
| 16 | It does not just refer to ‘ sharp business practices ’ and people making slightly greater profits than they should . |
| 17 | The one-flesh nature of the relationship does not just refer to the sexuality of marriage ; although sexuality in marriage is both an expression and symbol of that oneness . |
| 18 | The ‘ poor ’ in Scripture does not simply refer to those living at or beneath subsistence level — it ‘ can be extended to cover all the oppressed , all those who are dependent upon the mercy of others . |
| 19 | By ‘ deconstructionist ’ Brooke-Rose does not simply refer to the fact that her novel ‘ deconstructs ’ itself . |
| 20 | It is important to emphasize that ‘ creative accounting ’ does not properly refer to ‘ illegal accounting ’ : there is or was no support for illegal accounting . |
| 21 | The Public Order Act of 1986 does not specifically refer to picketing or industrial disputes at all but merely , makes general provisions which might apply to such issues . |
| 22 | " As initially present to the mind " is to be taken strictly in terms of the syntactic-semantic construction of expressions ; it does not directly refer to any aspect of an external situation which may be represented by an expression . |
| 23 | My diagnosis of the increased gap between the participants implied by the Sidneian constellation is strengthened by Lyons 's argument that ‘ whereas first and second person are the positive members of the category of person , third person is essentially a negative notion ’ , because ‘ it does not necessarily refer to participants in the situation of utterance ’ . |
| 24 | With the leave of the House , Mr. Deputy Speaker , I wish once again to refer to the St. Kentigern-Oatridge problem , which is repeated in all our constituencies in one form or another , and which I recommend to some diligent Peer in the other place . |
| 25 | And that does n't just refer to the A N Bs and the national parks and the rest of it . |
| 26 | ‘ The repository of knowledge , the Matrix , does n't even refer to the war . |
| 27 | The term is equal to the free energy change of a reaction system : thus on rearrangement , equation ( 22 ) becomes where all refer to the reaction system . |
| 28 | She had never even referred to herself as his stepsister before ! |
| 29 | Mobuto had never once referred to his father by name or attempted to make any apology for the abhorrent crimes that had been committed under his regime . |