Example sentences of "to refer to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the preceding arguments I have deliberately used the term ‘ enterprise democracy ’ to refer to democratic control by workers over the enterprises which employ them , within the context of the socialist project . |
| 2 | In addition to reading the quality standards it is useful to refer to Best Practice , published by the Law Society and its current Office Manual ( which is intended to be sufficient to enable small firms to comply with the practice management standard ) . |
| 3 | This means an older relative , but is also understood to refer to incessant complaining — doubtless an allusion to the bird 's raucous call . |
| 4 | Work is commonly taken to refer to paid employment , thus implying that housework and childcare are not work . |
| 5 | It may also be useful on occasions to refer to other Department of Health publications on child protection procedures , patterns in child placement and the role of the guardian ad litem . |
| 6 | In the following conversational fragment , we shall say , for example , that speaker A uses the expressions my uncle and he to refer to one individual and my mother 's sister and she to refer to another . |
| 7 | To refer to one man expressing his legitimate grievance as ‘ people like you ’ again serves to perpetuate this myth of a small bank of ne-er do wells who exist solely to harass poor , inoffensive Mr Jackson . |
| 8 | I ca n't obviously give my Noble Friend an assurance that this will be done , but in due course er I would very much hope that it would be and when it is my Noble Friend will then be able to refer to that Act with total simplicity and find his way through it and with all the original Acts amended as they were and will be after this Act has been passed . |
| 9 | If hon. Members plan to refer to that document , it would be helpful if they addressed its basic flaws . |
| 10 | We have debated the exchange rate mechanism and general economic policy on many occasions and it will be possible to refer to that issue in the debate on Wednesday . |
| 11 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |
| 12 | Our basic model is developed from the circular flow relationship that was established in Chapter 1 , and so the reader is recommended to refer to that chapter as a background for the present discussion . |
| 13 | The 1973 Act uses the term " employment agency " to refer to a " business … providing services … for the purpose of finding workers employment with employers or of supplying employers with workers for employment by them " ( 5.13(2) ) , in other words , to refer to private placement bureaux . |
| 14 | They also modify the accountant 's certificate to refer to controlled trust money . |
| 15 | Mullins first used the term ‘ trusted assessorship ’ to refer to friendly criticism , and the subject was expanded by Chubin , who suggested that the study of acknowledgements in papers could lead to measurement of the effects of trusted assessorship . |
| 16 | When the offence of obstructing a constable was first enacted by Parliament , it seems reasonably clear that it was intended to refer to physical obstruction only . |
| 17 | In studying this period writers have tended to use ‘ government ’ to refer to elected party or civilian cabinets , whose position is eroded in the 1930s as the state became even more totalitarian . |
| 18 | the word ‘ accent ’ is used elsewhere to refer to different varieties of pronunciation ( e.g. ‘ a foreign accent ’ ) ; it is confusing to use it for a quite different purpose — to a lesser extent we also have this problem with ‘ stress ’ , which can be used to refer to psychological tension . |
| 19 | The expression " takeover " is commonly used to refer to any acquisition of a company or business . |
| 20 | The term has even been used to refer to any form of assessment that is not norm-referenced . |
| 21 | Under the old system — the system to which the modern Labour party characteristically wishes to return — there was the freedom of the right to refer to any hospital and that right remains . |
| 22 | Furthermore the term register is sometimes used to refer to any device which holds a group of one or more bits of information , and which is capable of being accessed at electronic speeds : in this book we use it only for storage devices provided for some special purpose ( such as the SAR ) , and do not apply it to a general store location . |
| 23 | First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method . |
| 24 | Because of this , a poetic utterance has no functional ties with the real context in which it is produced and can not be assumed to refer to any aspect of its producer 's existence . |
| 25 | I thought it right to refer to this decision with which again I entirely agree . |
| 26 | Because terms like highway hypnosis , DWA and DWAM have been used somewhat indiscriminately in the literature previously this thesis will reserve them exclusively for the hypothetical trance-like state which may be a precursor to motorway accidents and use Reason 's term ‘ time-gap experience ’ to refer to this second phenomenon . |
| 27 | To refer to this phenomenon I shall use the term ‘ pertinent social collectivity ’ . |
| 28 | ( Throughout this paper , the word ‘ co-ordination ’ is used to refer to this aspect of the control structure of a system and not to the linguistic phenomenon of co-ordination by means of conjunctions . ) |
| 29 | Much later , in 1975 , the Lebanese chose not to refer to this period . |
| 30 | The solipsist , that is to say , can not get the practice started in the way in which he pretends , by concentrating on the nature of the original sensation and inventing a word to refer to this sensation and to others like it . |