Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter is composed of a penis which is usually unpaired ( but may be double , as in the Ephemeroptera and some Dermaptera ) and a pair of more lateral structures which are perhaps best referred to as parameres , though this term has been used in several different senses . |
| 2 | It only remains to guide the interested reader to some other , more measured , introductions to the Lorenz equations , not so far referred to in this chapter . |
| 3 | perhaps that 's why Bushmills Whiskey is so often referred to as ‘ the gargle ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The galleries of Cumbria , so frequently referred to as ‘ Spinning Galleries ’ , could better be called ‘ Wool Galleries ’ , for they were mainly used for fleece , wool , yarn and cloth in many stages of storing , preparation and drying . |
| 6 | Moreover , Arabic tends to use a relatively small number of conjunctions , each of which has a wide range of meanings which depend for their interpretation on the context , thus relying heavily on the reader 's ability to infer relationships which are only vaguely alluded to by the writer . |
| 7 | One of the better songs , ‘ Sweet Sentiment 's Pet ’ , showed enormous flair for improvising irresistibly improbable rhymes : The final verse , a sort of policy recommendation , advocated the remedy that parliament would so readily agree to in the ensuing months ; one that was ‘ cheapest and quickest and best ’ : |
| 8 | Similarly , he retained a strong christocentrism , but tried to find a ‘ non-religious ’ interpretation of Jesus as ‘ the man for others ’ in whom God is indeed present , but present in weakness , suffering and hiddenness rather than in the authoritative majesty which was so markedly appealed to in Barth 's earlier writing . |
| 9 | Various names are used , such as administrative therapy , but the technique is most generally referred to as the therapeutic community approach . |
| 10 | Mrs Eckersley 's friend at the German Foreign Office , to whom he now offered his services as a full-time employee , passed him on to Dr Erich Hetzler , private secretary to the Nazi Foreign Minister , von Ribbentrop , whom Joyce was rather ungratefully to refer to in future as ‘ Ribbentripe ’ . |
| 11 | Contrary to what was to happen in the modern period ( and still continues ) , the first objects of trade were not logs but what are sometimes rather dismissively referred to as ‘ minor forest products ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Socialists ( still generally referred to as the PSI , despite the party 's official redesignation in 1990 as the Socialist Unity Party — PSU ) secured only 13.6 per cent of the vote and 92 seats . |
| 15 | It was becoming clear that not only Socialist Unity Party ( PSU — the renamed Socialist Party still generally referred to as the PSI ) officials and politicians were involved . |
| 16 | Giuliano Amato of the Socialist Unity Party ( still generally referred to as the PSI ) became Prime Minister on June 18 , and a new 25-member government was appointed on June 28 — Italy 's 51st administration since 1945 . |
| 17 | On Nov. 25-26 Craxi convened the 500-member national assembly of the party ( still generally referred to as the Socialist Party — PSI ) , at which he announced that a full congress would take place in April 1993 . |
| 18 | The device we call a page printer , by the way , is more usually referred to as a laser printer , much more exciting . |
| 19 | Bettino Craxi 's leadership of the Socialist Unity Party ( usually still referred to as the PSI ) , came under serious challenge in September following his verbal attacks on the Milan magistrate , Antonio Di Pietro , who was leading the inquiry into the Milan local government corruption scandal [ see pp. 39025 ] . |
| 20 | This liberation of heat represents a net release of free energy ( ) ( more strictly referred to as Gibbs free energy ) . |
| 21 | The likes of Gordon Brown , Tony Blair , John Smith and Martin O'Neill have made good impressions , though Neil Kinnock , who got on famously badly with Ronald Reagan but adequately with Mr Bush , is still often referred to by the few Americans who pay any attention to British politics as ‘ the Welsh windbag ’ . |
| 22 | To overcome this shortcoming the Goblins have developed a unique machine known as the Doom Diver Catapult , more often referred to as the bat-winged loony lobber . |
| 23 | They gave the ruler of Spain , more often referred to as the Holy Roman Emperor , Charles V , possessions of a type previously unknown . |
| 24 | Poems are more plausibly referred to as works of art than novels ; the latter may have obviously aesthetic qualities , but have many other things in them as well . |
| 25 | He had also put forward basic structural ideas about the monosaccharides , suggesting the five and six-membered ring structures , furanosides and pyranosides which are still sometimes referred to as Haworth formulae and appear in every organic chemistry text today . |
| 26 | The Majabr are too few ; the Zuwaya more likely referred to as ‘ a tribe between Ajdabiya and Kufra ’ . |
| 27 | Yet Catalan and not Spanish remains their first language ( the signposts have often two spellings ) , and Ibiza and Formentera — the smallest of the group — are still commonly referred to by their Roman name ‘ Pituisas ’ , the Islands of Pines . |
| 28 | On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register . |
| 29 | This type of audit is more commonly referred to as a ‘ structural survey report ’ or ‘ building inspection report ’ . |
| 30 | Extrusive igneous activity is more commonly referred to as volcanism and occurs where magma erupts on to the surface either as flowing lava , or as fragmental material thrown into the air by explosive volcanic activity . |