Example sentences of "[noun pl] refer to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Welsh Office has shown itself barely capable of handling planning matters referred to it under the appeals system . |
| 2 | Convocation has a role defined in the Charter : it may ‘ discuss and pronounce an opinion on any matters whatsoever relating to the University including any matters referred to it by the Court or the Council ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly . |
| 4 | I have demonstrated this knitting technique at my local knitting club and now the members refer to it as the ‘ Sylvia Glenister buttonholes ’ ! |
| 5 | ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . ) |
| 6 | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People . |