Example sentences of "referred [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As late as October 1958 Khrushchev referred in the same breath to ’ the tragic fate of Guatemala' and ’ the heroic but unequal struggle of the Cuban people ’ . |
| 2 | He referred to the six pack and my initial thought was well , what 's a six pack of Newcastle Brown Ale got ta do with Health and Safety ? |
| 3 | He referred to the political reforms introduced by the Treasury in other Departments and to the Financial Management Initiative . |
| 4 | He referred to the new written policy and circulated four letters from parents objecting to the proposed closure . |
| 5 | A petition of the 1660s referred to the entire dependence of many local people on the trade , particularly ‘ ye constant imployment of at least 50,000 lusty able workman ready for defence of your Majesty and ye Nacion in case of general needs ’ . |
| 6 | The Report by the Council of Chief State School Officers of the US referred to the economic imperative of quality education for all ; it is more than that — all young people have the right to quality education . |
| 7 | He referred to the economic problems faced by architects and wider matters affecting the professions in speeches in the House of Lords . |
| 8 | Only once was a jarring note struck , and that was when Roger referred to the long room leading out of the kitchen as the ‘ museum ’ . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman also referred to the assisted area map . |
| 10 | He referred to the European Commissioner 's comments on the environmental assessment . |
| 11 | In discussing the theory of the firm , we referred to the differential information available to shareholders and managers . |
| 12 | A report emanating from Argentina referred to the alleged involvement of Eliecer Gaitán , Noriega 's ex-security chief , thought to be in hiding in Argentina following his escape from the papal nunciature in Panama on Sept. 16 [ see pp. 37706-07 ] . |
| 13 | In Mr Wakil 's first speech to Parliament he referred to the Five Year plan , in which an expansion of broadcasting was projected . |
| 14 | His two companions , however , sniggered as I referred to the great cardinal , affairs of state , and finally to the Luciferi . |
| 15 | Palestinians with relatives still inside Israel could pay two-week visits — many , like Damiani 's wife , have gone wistfully to look from a distance at the homes they once bought and lived in — and the same Israeli spokesman who referred to the Palestinian Arabs as ‘ a community of refugees ’ said that he had himself assisted 40,000 Palestinians to rejoin their families and become Israeli citizens . |
| 16 | In section 6.1 , we referred to the empirical breakdown of the original Phillips curve in the late 1960s and we pointed out that one explanation for this involves bringing inflationary expectations into the argument . |
| 17 | He referred to the frequent complaints from industry that new recruits from school were ill-equipped with basic skills . |
| 18 | In her letter of 21 August , Ms Greengross referred to the 1989 Family Expenditure Survey which found that 25% of retired people living alone mainly dependent on the state pension do not have a telephone and linked this ‘ poor level of penetration among people who need a telephone most … to the policy of increasing rental and connection charges to the maximum permitted by the retail price index ( RPI ) + 2% price cap , while targeting businesses and heavy residential users for international call rate reductions and volume discounts ’ . |
| 19 | He referred to the deaf and dumb including himself as " deaf mute " or simply " deaf " . |
| 20 | Looking back , Gorbachev was prepared to acknowledge ‘ mistakes in tactics ’ ; but although he travelled more widely throughout the country than previous Soviet leaders , he was also guilty of some remarkably insensitive mistakes ( as when he twice referred to the Soviet Union as ‘ Russia ’ during a visit to the Ukraine ) . |
| 21 | We referred to the 1992 NOP survey which indicated that 13,000,000 people wished to relocate to a rural area , and that this created a powerful demand which would be difficult to satisfy even if the provision of housing was completely unconstrained . |
| 22 | He referred to the major classes by number , the minor ones by letter . |
| 23 | In his reference to the poll tax , the hon. Member for Teignbridge referred to the many things that had to be built on to it and the many anomalies that had to be addressed . |
| 24 | Lord Reid also referred to the additional factor , the incidence of taxation . |
| 25 | The United Kingdom pointed out that , if the flag was not granted in accordance with international law , third countries might not recognise the vessel as genuinely bearing the nationality of the flag which it purported to fly , and it referred to the separate opinion of Judge Jessup in Case concerning the Barcelona Traction , Light and Power Co . |
| 26 | The irony is that he referred to the mutual relevance of science and religion in at least three different respects , each of which magnified , rather than resolved , his difficulties . |
| 27 | Specifically he referred to the changing balance between the middle and working classes , but he suggests that the balance of power between the generations within the middle class also changed . |
| 28 | In Chapter 1 I referred to the changing attitude among the leaders of Eurocommunism towards the institutions of Western democracy , and their radical reconsideration of the Leninist model of a revolutionary working-class party , which was elaborated in specific historical circumstances and no longer has any relevance for the politics of socialist parties , particularly in the advanced industrial societies . |
| 29 | We work in the Health arena , you yourself have had considerable experience , and you referred to the changing roles between public and private agencies , and you mentioned trusts and so on in the health arena , I just wondered whether you 'd like to explore with us a little , your own personal thinking about the nature of these changing roles , and perhaps a little bit of crystal ball gazing ahead , |
| 30 | It referred to the regional strategy which is currently out for consultation but was an emerging document and copies of that were again appended to the briefing paper it outlined the county council 's procedures which were followed in progress in the structure plan it outlined a programme establishing the weight of opinion of objectors it indicated our process in preparing policy amendments to be put to the panel and all those matters were made public It also requested the panel 's view on the role of county council members at the enquiry in public the responses to that were not made public and were in fact a question which was clearly put to the panel . |