Example sentences of "refer [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the two sides of the same coin which I referred to at the beginning of this essay , the nature — culture opposition and the particular characterizations and choice of emphases here explored being one explanation for the apparent gender differentials in blood within Jewish ritual practice , and one link at least between the rite of circumcision and menstrual taboo . |
| 2 | I have also enclosed a few of the papers I referred to at the beginning of the meeting , plus a travel claim form which you are welcome to use . |
| 3 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 4 | Well that article you referred to at the very beginning of the programme in the Observer , the final part of that article went something like this erm ‘ this article is not intended to accuse individuals or colleges . |
| 5 | But he was evidently even less happy than Dottie about my going back to what he referred to with thinly veiled distaste as " that place " . |
| 6 | The report of the Committee is set out in committee document B referred to on the agenda . |
| 7 | The report of the Committee is set out in committee document M referred to on the agenda . |
| 8 | The report of the Committee is set out in committee document N referred to on the agenda . |
| 9 | The report of the Committee is set out in document T referred to on the agenda . |
| 10 | The figures that er Mr Steel referred to on commuting flows neglect to refer to the inflow of commuters , the figures that I 've used are a net is a net figure which reflects outflow and inflow . |
| 11 | The local village Soviet , whose members Makarenko referred to as ‘ a lot of parasites ’ , declared that the Trepke cistern was state property . |
| 12 | To correct the curve it was necessary to stretch the concavity and contract the convexity — in furtherance of which he spent a good deal of his time moving across the floor in a peculiar creeping posture , which Doctor Staples referred to as ‘ Klapp 's crawl ’ . |
| 13 | Both were scathing about the failures of state socialism in the DDR which they referred to as ‘ the Russian system ’ . |
| 14 | The second group Miller referred to as |
| 15 | Acknowledging the problems inherent in the learned safety hypothesis , Kalat ( 1977 ) suggested a revision which he referred to as ‘ learned non-correlation ’ . |
| 16 | The non-associative nature of the phenomenon was emphasized by Gibson and Gibson ( 1955 ) , who made a firm distinction between their own account and the associative interpretation , which they referred to as ‘ enrichment ’ . |
| 17 | The latter had a less favourable nickname for the SAS , whom they referred to as the ‘ Parashites ’ for a while . |
| 18 | The Nazis also pioneered in the field of book destruction in their self-imposed task of reducing the multi-cultural nature of German society by the elimination of that quintessentially literate people whom Stalin referred to as ‘ cosmopolitan elements ’ . |
| 19 | But as Henry remarked to Elinor as the cortège moved away from Darby 's , the undertaker in the village , a charabanc might have been a more decent way of moving the extraordinarily large number of people who turned out for what Sprott referred to as ‘ the big goodbye ’ for Donald Templeton MD . |
| 20 | The House of Commons Agriculture Committee recognised the problem but failed to propose any detailed scheme except to call for increased rates of HLCAs in the Scottish Highlands and Islands ( which it referred to as ‘ disfavoured areas ’ ) without extending its sights to the remainder of the UK 's uplands . |
| 21 | Innumerable short encounters were jotted down in his diaries , which he referred to as ‘ memorandum books ’ , as well as in the Guide Book . |
| 22 | The Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ) , which Watkins referred to as ‘ The Tree of the Ancient Track ’ , meets several of these criteria . |
| 23 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 24 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |
| 25 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 26 | But he did believe the working class — which he referred to as if it were a single-willed person — would do somewhat unlikely things . |
| 27 | Fraser-Smith was a vigorous defender of the tribe 's right to live in the Serengeti national park , but deplored the moran system and worked hard in the face of what he repeatedly referred to as their ‘ stultifying conservatism ’ to make the Masai appreciate the benefits of modern ranching . |
| 28 | Behind all this was discernible the dim outlines of an even grander vision — a vision of an Anglo-Saxon world state , in which Britain , the white dominions and America ( realigned with Britain after what Curtis referred to as the ‘ schism ’ of 1775 ) would in concert undertake to ensure the peace and prosperity of the world : Curtis was not called ‘ The Prophet ’ for nothing . |
| 29 | The men who ruled India were aware that what they referred to as their prestige would in the end by compromised by too obvious a reliance on resort to arms . |
| 30 | Liza could only suppose that , with her husband 's mechanical knowledge , the powers that be had woken up to the fact that he would be more than useful in what she referred to as ‘ an active capacity ’ . |