Example sentences of "to refer to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If hon. Members plan to refer to that document , it would be helpful if they addressed its basic flaws . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The expression " takeover " is commonly used to refer to any acquisition of a company or business . |
| 7 | The term has even been used to refer to any form of assessment that is not norm-referenced . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I thought it right to refer to this decision with which again I entirely agree . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To refer to this phenomenon I shall use the term ‘ pertinent social collectivity ’ . |
| 15 | ( 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 . ) |
| 16 | Much later , in 1975 , the Lebanese chose not to refer to this period . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is customary for artists to feel antagonism towards critics , and though Sylvester was welcomed at the Royal College 's Senior Common Room , the painters sometimes joked that they found their ideas a week later in the pages of The Listener translated into the very different language of the critic : Minton , accordingly , coined the term ‘ pre-Sylvestration ’ to refer to this process . |
| 19 | She will not like me to refer to this time when she is better , Dorothea thought , she will avoid my company and we will only wish one another the most formal good morning . |
| 20 | Discourse , or text , deixis concerns the use of expressions within some utterance to refer to some portion of the discourse that contains that utterance ( including the utterance itself ) . |
| 21 | Lawyers may also find it helpful to refer to another Department of Health publication The Care of Children Principles and Practice in Regulations and Guidance ( HMSO ) . |
| 22 | It may be useful to refer to another Department of Health publication Patterns & Outcomes in Child Placement ( HMSO , 1991 ) when considering the local authority 's proposals for the future . |