Example sentences of "to refer to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems inappropriate to refer to a man of his years as a father figure or , in the context of such a mundane matter as VAT , as inspirational , but both descriptions can be applied to Victor . |
| 2 | Usually you would use the demonstrative " this " rather than the pronoun " it " to refer to a text ; that is , you would not do as the following writer has done : Serrusalmus by Lesley Glaister . |
| 3 | " Oral " was often used by the writers of a scheme interchangeably with " mental " to refer to a test which required pupils to work out answers mentally although it was normally the teacher who performed the oral task of reading out the questions ; the pupil 's task being aural and written . |
| 4 | Two are more difficult , because in the first the jurist uses the substantive legatum , which it is much less easy to take to refer to a trust ; and in the second what is involved is a legacy per praeceptionem . |
| 5 | For example , if the temperature of a beaker of water is raised from an initial temperature T1 to a final temperature T2 , the change in temperature is given by The Greek letter ( called delta ) is used to refer to a change in a quantity . |
| 6 | There is an enormous literature on this topic , but mostly written by political scientists and sociologists , not lawyers ; and there is disagreement about what exactly the phenomenon is , largely because the term is used to refer to a variety of different arrangements . |
| 7 | Also used to refer to a quantity produced above the number of copies ordered . |
| 8 | If you need to refer to a scorecard , DEC 's Alpha chip and the Mips Technologies Inc 's R4000 part are already 64-bit . |
| 9 | [ … ] Competition , to the equilibrium price theorist , turned out to refer to a state of affairs into which so many competing participants have already entered that no room remains for additional entry ( or other modification of existing market conditions ) . |
| 10 | ( ii ) The term ‘ legal executive ’ may only be used in a practitioner 's publicity , including stationery , to refer to a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives ; and ‘ trainee solicitor ’ to refer to a person under articles of training . |
| 11 | Now the police authorities a and the local authorities and the magistrates may be thought to be indulging in special preening , but I do assure Your Lordships that they really are not alone in expressing their anxieties er about the er er er this bill and what it proposes , for example , if I may , I would like to refer to a letter which I received from Justice , chaired by my Noble Friend Lord Alexander of and with his Vice-chairman er er Lord and er they say as an all-party human rights organisation , Justice considers that the composition of police authorities is an important constitutional issue effecting the independence of policing . |
| 12 | Generic convention , that is , gives up its claim to refer to a world outside television , or to ‘ what people believe to be true ’ , and internalizes its play . |
| 13 | The term " ocular dominance " ( or " eyedness ' ) has been used to refer to a number of different phenomena ( Money , 1972 ) . |
| 14 | There is considerable dispute over the precise definition of this term , but we shall use class to refer to a group sharing a similar position in a structure of objective material inequalities , produced by a particular system of economic relationships characteristic of a particular mode of production . |
| 15 | Russian similarly uses a form of the pronominal adjectives svoj ( masculine ) , svoja ( feminine ) , svojo ( neuter ) , and svoi ( plural ) to refer to a participant already referred to in the same clause , but in Russian this is not restricted to third-person forms ; the participant referred to by the pronominal adjective may be first , second , or third person . |
| 16 | So , where English would normally use a pronoun to refer to a participant who has already been introduced , provided there is no possibility of confusing reference , Hebrew is more likely to repeat the participant 's name . |
| 17 | Similarly , she explains , for the Bororos of Brazil the normal pattern is to refer to a participant by using a noun several times in succession before eventually shifting into a pronominal form . |
| 18 | To refer to a method we shall be discussing more fully in Chapter 3 , we can see much the same sort of development with respect to the survey . |
| 19 | Hilton addressed himself to the practical situation of his friend who felt himself torn by the demands of the active life impinging on his desire to pursue contemplation , and helps by showing that these two terms , so often used as opposites to refer to a manner of living , either as a professed religious or as a man of affairs , take their fundamental meaning from different inner conditions . |
| 20 | Similarly , and to refer to a figure mentioned earlier , Goffman 's " dramaturgical approach " is not a theory of social behaviour but a metaphor , a way of seeing , pointing up , features of the system of interpersonal communication in public places . |
| 21 | Less broadly than this , it can be used to refer to a disenchantment from more specific areas of a person 's life , such as his/her work , or from politics , or from religion , and so on . |
| 22 | The judge had warned the jury not to award " Mickey Mouse money " , by which he apparently intended to refer to a sum so large as to be unrealistic ( such as 1.5 million ) . |
| 23 | ( ii ) The term ‘ legal executive ’ may only be used in a practitioner 's publicity , including stationery , to refer to a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives ; and ‘ trainee solicitor ’ to refer to a person under articles of training . |
| 24 | And to be honest , for questions like this , I usually have to refer to a book for an answer ! |
| 25 | In the New Testament there are four different words that are used to refer to a gift and the one used here means an endowment , and an endowment comes , not because of me , but it becomes because of the grace of the giver . |
| 26 | Notice that the term semantic constituent is not used to refer to a meaning only , but to a form-plus-meaning complex ; that is to say , a semantic constituent is a meaningful form ( the precise sense of meaningful intended here will be clarified below ) with a determinate grammatical function . |
| 27 | These days the word salame is also used to refer to an idiot with less brains than a sack of potatoes ! |
| 28 | The outside world first became aware of the word ‘ orang-utan ’ in 1641 , when a Dutchman called Nicholas Tulp used it to refer to an ape brought to Europe . |
| 29 | If any further additions are made to the dos command line , they are assumed to refer to an ascii file to be loaded directly . |
| 30 | For a recent example , see Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , where a dispute about damages was referred to accountants by an agreement entered into after the parties ' dispute about liability had been settled by some other method ; there had been no prior agreement in the original contract to refer to an expert . |