Example sentences of "[noun sg] refers to the " in BNC.

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1 Creativity refers to the generation of novel ideas — innovation to making money with them .
2 Differentiation refers to the positivist assumption that there is something ( preferably measurably ) different about criminals ; they may be seen as differing from non-criminals in terms of their biological or psychological make-up , or in terms of their values , again according to the academic origins of the criminologist concerned .
3 Differentiation refers to the different relationships , departments and goals that exist within an organisation and integration is the degree of co-ordination and co-operation between different departments with inter-departmental tasks .
4 Most of 's societal framework refers to the provinces and not the better known institutions centralized in Paris , an approach that makes a refreshing change .
5 This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges .
6 If that reconstruction is plausible it is likely that the story refers to the Magharba .
7 Moscovici 's defence refers to the destructive power of operational definitions to restrict intellectual advance .
8 The ‘ type ’ component refers to the construction by the analyst of a typology or set of categories for classifying phenomena .
9 Service ethos refers to the formal and informal social climate prevailing in a social service agency which influences the extent of use made by different groups of people .
10 Responsibility refers to the liability of a person to be called to account for his/her actions and results .
11 ( Aggressivity refers to the propensity of water to dissolve calcium carbonate . )
12 The FM part refers to the flame maple veneer , which sits atop a four-piece alder body with a Transparent Red ( you guessed it ) finish .
13 This constraint refers to the amount of time the organization takes to produce its financial report .
14 Search literature refers to the best path as having the lowest cost .
15 Your writer refers to the recent agreement between BBC Enterprises and talent unions to allow release of BBC material featuring those union members , on the BBC Video label , for sale or rental to the public , for home use .
16 The demand for money refers to the desire to hold money : to keep your wealth in the form of money , rather than spending it on goods and services or saving it by purchasing financial assets such as bonds or shares .
17 ( The ‘ fast ’ description refers to the fact that there is no moderator , as in normal reactors , to slow the reaction down . )
18 The description refers to the old buildings that were burnt down in 1834 ( see FIRE WHICH DESTROYED PARLIAMENT ) .
19 The there is in in policy H one as proposed at the moment , a the last sentence refers to the issue of phasing .
20 A technique refers to the mechanical or agronomic method applied , and in any one conservation project there may a considerable variety .
21 This rule refers to the fact that a subject which is ( or is centred around ) a singular noun is followed by a verb which has the suffix s added to it .
22 Ancient cosmology refers to the ether , a fifth element filling all space , and conceived as a purer form of fire or air .
23 Schrader refers to the short , written out cadenza-like flourish just before the final cadences of the Prelude in F minor BWV534 as a precedent , but this does not seem justification enough , particularly as the cadenza he provides in this case is much more than merely a brief manual flourish .
24 The left-handed side of the figure refers to the derivation of scientific laws and theories from observation that we have already discussed .
25 The term refers to the law applied to these areas , which was designed to maintain and encourage wild animals , principally deer , and the greenery on which they depended .
26 This term refers to the generation of a set of boundaries to define regions or areas which have a particular property or set of properties .
27 The Railway Staff Joint Council ( RSJC ) is organized , as at sectional council , according to occupational groups , with separate sections for footplate staff , other ‘ conciliation ’ grades ( the term refers to the manual grades included in the original machinery established in the 1920s ) , and salaried staff .
28 While closure refers to the relative degree of openness of different classes , reproduction refers to the economic and cultural resources that classes use to sustain themselves .
29 Universality refers to the fact that totally different systems can exhibit the same route to chaos — the same not just in that they show the same broad features , but very closely the same including quantitative details .
30 Lindstedt refers to the possibility of providing reading glasses or magnifying lenses for near work , of a power corresponding to the degree of failing .
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