Example sentences of "to refer to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the words of the Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen this might help create " a new political landscape in which new decisions can be taken " a comment widely taken to refer to the possibility of a second referendum in Denmark on the Treaty . |
| 2 | First , in his evidence he referred to a better solution as being quotes , seeks a small residential setting with some other people , unquote and went on to refer to the possibility of the plaintiff entering one of the Cheshire Homes . |
| 3 | For reasons which will appear it is necessary first to refer to the legislation affecting the taxation of benefits in kind before 1975 . |
| 4 | I ought to be able to refer to the experience directly , and not only indirectly . |
| 5 | To which he , Wittgenstein , replies , ‘ But if it meant that , then I ought to know it , I ought to be able to refer to the experience directly , and not only indirectly . |
| 6 | But the , you see if you look in the , I have information off the Birmingham secretary , er Secretary 's secretary , she was involved , she even was imprisoned in Switzerland erm when the peace movement was on between the two wars , and that was when they were , I believe it was a German woman that er that was on , you know in the committee , but I 'll have to refer to the Caring and Sharing book . |
| 7 | Poltoranin claimed that his resignation was motivated by the need to protect Yeltsin from opposition attacks , but also referred to " a series of reasons " concerning the media , thought to refer to the dismissal of the Ostankino broadcasting company chairman [ see below ] . |
| 8 | But the term has also been used to refer to the work done by anthropologists who have lived with tribes they have studied . |
| 9 | Johns ( personal communication ) also suggests that in English science and engineering academic abstracts , the present perfect is specifically used to refer to the work of other scientists . |
| 10 | This means the need to refer to the text and instructor boxes will diminish over time . |
| 11 | It seems to us natural to refer to the act of stealing in ordinary cases as ‘ appropriation . ’ |
| 12 | Let us use SENSE to refer to the basic logical , conceptual , paraphrasable meaning , and SIGNIFICANCE to refer to the total of what is communicated to the world by a given sentence or text . |
| 13 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 14 | The court will obviously need to refer to the checklist in s1(3) when deciding whether an order will be better for the child than no order . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend is absolutely right to refer to the Government 's role in setting the right climate and environment and providing the right services for industry . |
| 16 | It is brass cheek for the hon. Lady to refer to the Government 's record on river quality and water in general when one remembers that the Labour Government cut investment in water quality by 30 per cent . |
| 17 | I noted that the Secretary of State omitted to refer to the date when he will be able to tell the House about Mr. Stoner 's opinion . |
| 18 | However , when the Parkers passed by , some were cruel enough to refer to the minister and his attractive wife as ‘ The Beauty and the Beast ’ . |
| 19 | At this stage it is sufficient to note his readiness to refer to the weakness and failings of his own religion which is a human construct and an expression of that which underlines all religions . |
| 20 | If the overflow record is held on the same cylinder as the prime data there will be an average wait of half a revolution to refer to the overflow record . |
| 21 | Many transracial adopters find it difficult to refer to the child as black , and moreover they feel , as we have seen , that telling the child about his or her ethnic origin is potentially dangerous ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 130 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ It is perfectly common in ordinary speech to refer to the child in utero as he , she , him or her and I do not feel driven by the use of such ordinary parlance in this section ( of the act ) to the view which Lord Prosser accepted , that parliament envisaged a person sustaining injuries meaning a person enjoying legal personality . ’ |
| 23 | My Lords , having drafted this speech , I then had the pleasure and advantage of reading in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and concluded that I ought to refer to the company fraud cases which were canvassed before your Lordships , lest it be thought that the Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 statement of principle is inconsistent with a proper approach to such cases . |
| 24 | It would therefore seem sensible to refer to the offence by the descriptive label that Parliament itself has provided . |
| 25 | ‘ Market growth ’ was replaced by Industry attractiveness — a term that in practice was used loosely , to refer to the attractiveness of being in that area of activity in which the SBU operated . |
| 26 | Commenting on ( 167a ) and ( 167b ) , he observes that only oblige can be followed by a " resultative structure " , whereas make " supposes a concomitance between causation and the actualization of the effect being caused , which forces the latter to refer to the operation itself rather than to the state which results from it " . |
| 27 | His apparent reluctance , in his interview with this magazine , to refer to the concept of ‘ unmet need ’ betrays the sort of double-speak which has characterised much of the government 's community care rhetoric . |
| 28 | The term ‘ efficiency ’ is used here to refer to the expenditure of appropriate levels of effort and skill on the part of the company 's directors and top managers . |
| 29 | Dale Spender describes the tendency to refer to the male as the norm and women in pejorative terms as a ‘ rule ’ of language ; she use the term ‘ sexist syntax ’ to describe this . |
| 30 | ‘ Man ’ and ‘ mankind ’ are terms used interchangeably , supposedly to refer to the whole of humanity , as in ‘ Mankind has fallen from grace ’ or ‘ Man is the most intelligent of the animals ’ . |