Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I like somewhere to go to in the morning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The metaphysical framework for the neurophysiology of perception is provided by the Causal Theory of Perception ( henceforth referred to as the CTP ) . |
| 9 | Any repairs or replacements or renewals of furnishings are noted on the cards , and they are constantly referred to by the housekeeping and maintenance departments , whose responsibility it is to see that the room is maintained to the required standard . |
| 10 | The documents obtained in this way were stored in an archive in Salamanca ( where they remain to this day ) and , after the end of the war , were constantly referred to by the military courts trying suspected Republicans . |
| 11 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 12 | The barely submerged class antagonism much alluded to in the local humour is both true and false . |
| 13 | Lot nineteen sixty one , an option to purchase your honour for three hundred and eighty five which at that time was at a rate of nine hundred pounds a year and they went to this friend of the firm of solicitors and there of the document which doubly signed and was dated March twenty four nineteen sixty one but my consideration one pounds penny by thereby granted to for the purchasing of . |
| 14 | Spinoza was , in any case , little attended to by the moralists of this period . |
| 15 | The fedback gain represented by expression ( 10.26 ) is aptly referred to as the closed-loop gain and quite naturally corresponding descriptions open-loop gain and loop gain are often applied to the quantities A and respectively . |
| 16 | 1.1 Any order sent to the Seller by the Purchaser shall be accepted entirely at the discretion of the Seller , and , if so accepted , will only be accepted upon these conditions ( hereafter referred to as the " Conditions " ) and by means of the Seller 's standard order acknowledgement form . |
| 17 | The Convention is normally referred to as the CMR Convention . |
| 18 | The war between France what is normally referred to as the Franco-Prussian war . |
| 19 | In these two works Lenin laid the base for a modern reworking of Marx which is normally referred to as the theory of state monopoly capitalism . |
| 20 | The presumed causal factor , normally referred to as the " independent variable " , is withheld from the control group and administered only to the experimental group . |
| 21 | The launcher , normally referred to in the trade as a ‘ carousel ’ , is similar to the Pivotal Tower Type in Mr Smith 's illustration , in that the aircraft travels on a circular ground track around a central pylon with a rotary head . |
| 22 | Integration has led to what 's best referred to as the televisualisation of Hollywood . |
| 23 | Section 2(3) was not referred to in the judgment in J. Barber & Sons v. |
| 24 | It is said , however , that if regard is had to the statutes of the university , referred to in the notice inviting applications , on the basis of which the contract was clearly made even if the statutes were not referred to in the letter , the university had no such right . |
| 25 | The Group 's largest and longest established operation is in oil-rich Kuwait , a small but strategically placed country at the top of what used to be known as the Persian gulf — now politically just referred to as the gulf . |
| 26 | The transactions just referred to of the executors , his assignees , in relation to the lease bind him , in my judgment , in a question with the plaintiff as if they had been carried out by himself . |
| 27 | as far as the committee was concerned there is they 've taken a decision on the preferred route , but we did as I 've just referred to in the earlier work , er we did assess that erm and that showed again er that the traffic would n't transfer from the A sixty one onto a southern bypass and a inner northern relief road . |
| 28 | Russian similarly uses a form of the pronominal adjectives svoj ( masculine ) , svoja ( feminine ) , svojo ( neuter ) , and svoi ( plural ) to refer to a participant already referred to in the same clause , but in Russian this is not restricted to third-person forms ; the participant referred to by the pronominal adjective may be first , second , or third person . |
| 29 | Consequently , the draft root definitions for the storage and retrieval systems were combined to form a new definition for an Information Provision System ( generally referred to as the IPS ) . |
| 30 | It is generally referred to as the House of Canmore , though Canmore was originally only a nickname — Malcolm ‘ the Great Head ’ — not bestowed in any complimentary sense by those who suffered under his notorious rages and lust for war . |