Example sentences of "to refer [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , to reduce the scope for dispute , it is preferable for the contract documents to refer expressly to the terms in the catalogue and incorporate them by reference . |
| 2 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 3 | The difficulty is that the grammar of the disposition suggests that it should be the curator , but the reference to ‘ his , nurses can surely be meant to refer only to the foster-child ; and the last sentence of the text confirms that it is the foster-child who is intended . |
| 4 | The label ‘ London Road End ’ was carefully used to refer only to the half of the terrace occupied by Oxford fans . |
| 5 | It may be thought that in reading ( ii ) , pencil should be taken to refer only to the core of the pencil . |
| 6 | As he admits , the divisions are arbitrary , but they have the advantage of making it possible to refer easily to the level of grammatical complexity in a speech sample , and to group children on the basis of language complexity . |
| 7 | Many sedimentological theses now use the terms ‘ fore-arc sedimentation ’ , ‘ back-arc basins ’ , and ‘ accretionary prisms ’ to refer directly to the plate-tectonic environments of deposition of such sediments . |
| 8 | The fact that the word ‘ stress ’ is commonly used to refer both to the situation in which teachers are working and the way they are feeling and reacting suggests that many of them subscribe to the ‘ Hay Fever Theory ’ as an explanation for how stress comes about . |
| 9 | However , as long as this distinction is understood , it is generally agreed that the term ‘ pitch ’ is a convenient one to use informally to refer both to the subjective sensation and to the objectively measurable fundamental frequency . |
| 10 | But it is necessary to refer also to the provisions dealing with the recoupment of losses and the disgorging of profits in order to enable the restitutionary provisions to be construed in the context of the Act as a whole . |
| 11 | On the other hand , there is also the view that art-objects are different from all other human artefacts and phenomena in that judgements about them have to refer partly to the medium and form of that artefact . |
| 12 | 125–84 , 204–7 ; 1982b 173–96 ; various papers in Hodder ed. 1982 ) , here it will be used to refer solely to the relationship between artefacts within a given object domain , such as all windows or all cars . |
| 13 | Therefore , if a clause giving a reason for such an action has a pronominal subject , we expect it to refer back to the questioner . |
| 14 | In other words , to refer back to the discussion in the previous section , an understanding of theory is needed for evaluation . |
| 15 | Moreover when he does refer to ideology it is not to develop the concept or incorporate it into his analysis of capitalism but to refer back to the tyranny of ideas and the emptiness of idealism ( e.g. in the Grundrisse , Marx 1973 : 164 ) . |
| 16 | A week later it is evident that Fox-type gear was coming into common usage with no need to refer back to the specific case — ‘ a teenage girl was seized by two men wearing ‘ fox-style ’ balaclavas and raped at knife-point ’ ( London Evening Standard ) . |
| 17 | One of the most common patterns of establishing chains of reference in English and a number of other languages is to mention a participant explicitly in the first instance , for example by name or title , and then use a pronoun to refer back to the same participant in the immediate context . |
| 18 | The view expressed by Lawani & Bayer , that self-citations are used as an ego-enhancement , can not be tested in the present case , and should be rejected in the absence of evidence , because it is essential for an author to be able to refer back to the unpublished parts of theses . |
| 19 | To refer back to the above example , the statements selected could not exhaust all the possible statements that could have been used . |
| 20 | erm how long this system will go on for , well in order to be able to refer back to the nineteen nineties , who knows we might , neither of us might be here |
| 21 | The first tends to refer mainly to the military context which , while obviously important , is not what this book is about ; and the second is clearly state-centrist , and does not fully convey the scnse of hegemony where it does not directly involve the state , which I take to be crucial . |
| 22 | It is useful to refer again to the practice guides which the then ABAFA produced to the 1975 Children Act ( 1976 and 1977 ) ( and which were criticised by Tunstill ) . |
| 23 | To refer again to the rise in interest rates in 1988 , the cost of personal and business borrowing is approaching levels which in real terms ( after taking away the effects of inflation ) are high . |
| 24 | Chairman , er if I might I was going to refer again to the care carefully worded recommendation which does n't actually mention the level of erm it simply mentions erm er a modest extent of under provision because clearly it says elsewhere in the report at two ten that it 's not yet known whether there will be opportunities elsewhere , so that 's a particular shortfall in provision to be made up . |
| 25 | Although different presentation styles are appropriate to different media this is not indicated on the list and you will need to refer either to the Quick Reference Guide ( a single folder card that you should try to keep handy ) or to Chapter 20 of the User Guide — which frankly seems rather a long way in ! |
| 26 | Although other countries had wanted to specify the end of 1992 as the deadline , the UK persuaded them to refer instead to the schedule outlined in the Treaty which provided that the Treaty could come into effect later than Jan. 1 , 1993 , if the ratification process were not completed by then in all states . |