Example sentences of "[noun] refers [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Differentiation refers to the different relationships , departments and goals that exist within an organisation and integration is the degree of co-ordination and co-operation between different departments with inter-departmental tasks .
2 Differentiation refers to the positivist assumption that there is something ( preferably measurably ) different about criminals ; they may be seen as differing from non-criminals in terms of their biological or psychological make-up , or in terms of their values , again according to the academic origins of the criminologist concerned .
3 Moscovici 's defence refers to the destructive power of operational definitions to restrict intellectual advance .
4 The standard form analysed by Professor Tetley refers to the individual carrier 's contract of carriage as follows :
5 Your writer refers to the recent agreement between BBC Enterprises and talent unions to allow release of BBC material featuring those union members , on the BBC Video label , for sale or rental to the public , for home use .
6 The description refers to the old buildings that were burnt down in 1834 ( see FIRE WHICH DESTROYED PARLIAMENT ) .
7 The Railway Staff Joint Council ( RSJC ) is organized , as at sectional council , according to occupational groups , with separate sections for footplate staff , other ‘ conciliation ’ grades ( the term refers to the manual grades included in the original machinery established in the 1920s ) , and salaried staff .
8 While closure refers to the relative degree of openness of different classes , reproduction refers to the economic and cultural resources that classes use to sustain themselves .
9 The seal on this rapprochement was set with a treaty of peace with the Picts to which Bede refers in the penultimate chapter of the Ecclesiastical History as a significant aspect of the situation in 731 ( HE V , 23 ) .
10 Convergence ( not to be confused with phyletic convergence ) refers to the degree of resemblance of faunas in different regions increasing from an earlier to a later period , and divergence refers to the reverse phenomenon ( Fig. 18. 3 ) .
11 The Oxford English Dictionary refers to the following gloss : ‘ a meaningless or even misleading phrase in English ’ .
12 The question refers to the Baltic states , not Albania .
13 The HP4 requirement refers to the additional land to be allocated to ensure an adequate supply and choice of land over the Structure Plan period 1984–96 .
14 One type refers to the geographical location ( both absolute and relative ) of spatial entities ( the points , lines and polygons considered earlier in Chapter 2 ) and the other data type refers to the properties or attributes of such spatial entities , for example the height of a point such as a hill top , the width of a road ( line ) or the area of a State ( polygon ) Table 7.1 ) .
15 The left visual field would normally project to the hemisphere which is absent in this patient ; n above each bar refers to the total number of trials with that target .
16 Remember the curved arrow refers to the main carriage , so does the number 6 — knit six rows .
17 For example , Morwenna Griffiths refers to the feminist emphasis on generating abstractions on the basis of concrete , personal experience ( rather than assuming that inherited abstractions adequately explain experience ) .
18 Thus in Arizona , the Redwall Limestone of this age forms the steepest cliff in the Grand Canyon ( plate 1.9 ) , and the name refers to the red staining of the rock from the overlying Permo-Triassic red beds , just as in the Avon Gorge at Bristol , the topmost Carboniferous Limestone is reddened by the overlying Permo-Triassic deposits .
19 This is not so , however : there is little doubt that in both interpretations pencil refers to the whole object ( or at least potentially does so ) .
20 Sometimes , particularly in his later writings , Pareto refers to the governing class or governing classes .
21 Colour refers to the actual wavelengths of the light rays concerned and determines the ‘ hue ’ ( redness , blueness , etc … ) , which can be bright or dull , muted or full .
22 Simmel refers to the inevitable repetition of the same contents , situations , excitations ' within a relationship , yet together with the repetition there is ‘ the consciousness that … the value of this content depends on its very opposite — a certain measure of rarity ’ .
23 The division by strata : This concept refers to the broad division among all employees of capitalist enterprises ( and state apparatuses ) into different hierarchical categories , in respect of character of labour power ( more or less skilled/qualified ) , role within the functioning of the enterprise ( autonomy/restriction of work , control powers , access to information ) , and conditions of employment .
24 Efficiency refers to the productive use of resources .
25 Although the graph refers to the full amounts of £1,000/year and £15,000 , it was based on this table .
26 As noted in the previous chapter , Marx refers to the dominant concepts of class societies as ‘ ruling class ideology ’ since they justify and legitimate ruling class domination and project a distorted picture of reality .
27 Marx refers to the dominant ideas of each epoch as ‘ ruling class ideology ’ .
28 The mystery plays were originally known as the Corpus Christi Play ; the use of the singular ‘ play ’ indicated they were intended to be seen as a whole , while Corpus Christi refers to the holy day on which they were performed .
29 Wove paper refers to the woven mesh of the mould on which the sheet was formed .
30 Indeed , there is again a danger of assigning such developments a too simply determinative role : Cutler refers to the innate qualities of these ‘ internal forces ’ , and the role of the ‘ external forces ’ ( the relations of production , together with the accompanying ideological/expressive superstructure ) seems to be solely to realize their potential .
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