Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] refer [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spinsterhood was often referred to as ‘ failure in business ’ in middle class households , leading Cicely Hamilton to write bitterly about ‘ marriage as a trade ’ in 1909 . |
| 2 | In the 1930s this zone was variously referred to as the ‘ axial belt ’ , even the ‘ coffin' , though in truth there was always a low-density gap between London and Birmingham , so perhaps ‘ doughnut ’ would have been more appropriate . |
| 3 | When Leonard Aldous started in the harness-maker 's shop the business was often referred to by a different name . |
| 4 | When first introduced into Europe in the 14th century , sugar was reverently referred to as ‘ white gold ’ , and commanded a market price equal to that of silver . |
| 5 | For years , the Clow surcharge was misleadingly referred to by electrical enthusiasts as proof that demand for electricity at peak times was completely inelastic within the relevant price ranges . |
| 6 | His screen creation was often referred to as ‘ the tramp ’ but as Sobel and Francis have suggested the use of this term is as misleading as to call Chaplin ‘ proletarian ’ . |
| 7 | Thus the Communists and the Nazis had a common interest in the destruction of the Social Democrats and this fact was frequently referred to by the Labour Party and the TUC in the early 1930s as a reason for opposing both movements with equal vigour . |
| 8 | Husameddin 's argument , moreover , ignores the facts that Shams al-Din is known to have been part of Molla Fenari 's name but not , so far as can be discovered , of that of his son and that the son was regularly referred to as Mehmed Sah whereas it is not known that Molla Fenari ever was . |