Example sentences of "refers [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oswine 's power was clearly already weakening by January 690 for he refers in the grant to Abbess Aebbe at that time to those Kentish nobles who were able to be with him . |
| 2 | Philip Miller refers in the Dictionary to Mimosa circinalis , brought from the Bahamas by Catesby in 1726 . |
| 3 | Not everyone is familiar with these two interesting variations in lock construction , so that the lucid descriptions in Eric de Mare 's excellent little book , The Canals of England are worth quoting , especially as he refers in the book directly to the Grand Union examples . |
| 4 | It refers to the presence of social groups which are ranked one above the other , usually in terms of the amount of power , prestige and wealth their members possess . |
| 5 | The experience or lack of experience , of course , refers to the usage of the system itself . |
| 6 | The second criterion refers to the promotion of the interests of consumers and purchasers of goods and services via quality and variety . |
| 7 | Consultation The 1947 Transport Act refers to the promotion of measures on safety , health and welfare ‘ and the discussion of other matters of mutual interest … including efficiency in the operation of the [ British Transport ] Commission 's services ’ . |
| 8 | The headline refers to the United States as ‘ World Cup Soccer 's Final Frontier . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , during Antony 's soliloquy at the end of the scene he refers to the murderers as ‘ butchers ’ , and ‘ bloody men . ’ |
| 10 | Schrader refers to the short , written out cadenza-like flourish just before the final cadences of the Prelude in F minor BWV534 as a precedent , but this does not seem justification enough , particularly as the cadenza he provides in this case is much more than merely a brief manual flourish . |
| 11 | We might also note the aspect of intensity , which refers to the degree to which the vision possesses the visionary and those surrounding him/her , and durability , which refers to the persistence of the vision , ranging even beyond the career of the visionary as it infuses the behaviour of an organization for generations . |
| 12 | It refers to the resurgence of manufacturing during the 1980s and the mistaken but widespread belief that manufacturing is still shrinking . |
| 13 | It refers to the reduction in the number of teachers , to cuts in the provision for children with special educational needs , to larger classes , to cuts in the expenditure on books and equipment and to the national curriculum . |
| 14 | The new wording , insisted on by the US government , which is refusing to commit itself to specific targets , refers to the reduction of emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 as merely a " guideline " target . |
| 15 | ‘ Channel ’ refers to the medium by which messages are received or transmitted : comprehension of language may take place through auditory ( hearing ) or visual channels ( reading print or signs ) , and production may be mediated via vocal ( speaking ) or motor ( writing or manual signing ) systems . |
| 16 | There are at least three kinds of validity : construct validity which refers to the degree to which the test seems to be based on psychological theory , content validity which describes how well the test measures what it is intended to measure and criterion validity which indicates its value as a predictor using as criteria other measures of relevant performance . |
| 17 | Convergence ( not to be confused with phyletic convergence ) refers to the degree of resemblance of faunas in different regions increasing from an earlier to a later period , and divergence refers to the reverse phenomenon ( Fig. 18. 3 ) . |
| 18 | The second refers to the degree of formality in the physical arrangements and court room atmosphere ; the major obstacle here is seen as the adversarial system of examining and cross-examining witnesses ( JUSTICE , 1987 ) . |
| 19 | We might also note the aspect of intensity , which refers to the degree to which the vision possesses the visionary and those surrounding him/her , and durability , which refers to the persistence of the vision , ranging even beyond the career of the visionary as it infuses the behaviour of an organization for generations . |
| 20 | ‘ Power ’ refers to the degree to which individuals or groups can impose their will on others , with or without the consent of those others . |
| 21 | Mostly he is talking about a period before the war but he also refers to the uprising against the Germans in 1912 , and some events immediately after the last war , and to a man he describes as his brother . |
| 22 | Offe himself refers to the exhaustion of the potential of the labour movement and explicitly endorses Gorz 's ( 1982 ) Farewell to the Working Class . |
| 23 | All too frequently , however , the relevant clause simply refers to the firm 's capital by some generalised expression such as " the sums brought into the firm by each partner and shown standing to his credit in the books of the firm " . |
| 24 | Suffix 1 refers to the particles , 2 to the matrix , V to the Voigt sum as above and a term with no suffix to the self-consistent overall value . |
| 25 | Organisational authority refers to the scope and amount of discretion given to a person to make decisions , by virtue of the position he or she holds in the organisation . |
| 26 | In summary then , evaluation in the context of professional development and educational improvement refers to the monitoring of practice in order to diagnose problems and develop , implement and evaluate remedies , or to assure oneself that all is well . |
| 27 | On a number of occasions in the novel , the narrator Marcel himself refers to the intellect as a kind of lattice-work , with which we try to capture reality , but through which reality flows and escapes us . |
| 28 | You can trace those through the Bible ; Moses saw the Glory of God — His brightness ; Psalms refers to the Temple , where the splendour of God is to be found ; the shepherds were surrounded by the brightness of God 's Glory , and so was Paul on the road to Damascus . |
| 29 | ( Aggressivity refers to the propensity of water to dissolve calcium carbonate . ) |
| 30 | The scheme for managerial pay set out above essentially refers to the pay framework for a manager in a plc , but my aim is to provide a comparative analysis . |