Example sentences of "refer [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this was so , then ‘ Yahweh ’ , ‘ God the Father ’ and ‘ Allah ’ would all refer to the same God , in the way that ‘ The President ’ , ‘ George Bush ’ and ‘ Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces ’ all refer to the same person . |
| 2 | It is difficult to believe these comments refer to the same Report as that evaluated in a balanced leader in the Independent ( 16 November 1988 ) under the headline ‘ A blow for literacy ’ . |
| 3 | Although these two expressions have the same referent ( they both refer to the same celestial object , Venus ) , they differ in sense , as the evening star means " the star which appears in the evening " , and the morning star means " the star which appears in the morning " . |
| 4 | This is not to say that they convey the same sense , nor that they necessarily refer to the same event ; but given what we know , both about the real world and the fictional world , it is reasonable to infer from each the same event . |
| 5 | Most speakers would agree , I think , that Mary wore a red dress and Mary wore a blue dress were contraries ( assuming , of course , that they refer to the same occasion , and that Mary , as would be normal , wore only one dress at a time ) ; the colour terms refer to the predominant colour of the dress , and there can be only one predominant colour . |
| 6 | " Shakespeare " and " the author of Macbeth " refer to the same person , but evidently they are not always interchangeable . |
| 7 | Lexical meaning can be studied by defining a particular set of words which in some way refer to the same subject , such as all colour terms . |
| 8 | Thus I can say this morning either during the morning or the afternoon , and refer to the same span ; whereas in Chinantec , I must use a different word for referring to the morning in the morning ( i.e. when the span includes CT ) from the one I use to refer to the morning in the afternoon ( i.e. when the span referred to excludes CT , but is within the same larger diurnal span as CT — Fillmore , 1975 : 47 ) . |
| 9 | As Burton-Roberts suggests , criterion A ( the requirement that elements in apposition refer to the same entity ) would have to be extended if it is to apply to sentential and other non-nominal appositions . |