Example sentences of "refers [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip Miller refers in the Dictionary to Mimosa circinalis , brought from the Bahamas by Catesby in 1726 . |
| 2 | Not everyone is familiar with these two interesting variations in lock construction , so that the lucid descriptions in Eric de Mare 's excellent little book , The Canals of England are worth quoting , especially as he refers in the book directly to the Grand Union examples . |
| 3 | The second letter is difficult to place since Leapor is responding to a gentleman whose comments on her work are relayed by someone else , or to whom she refers in the third person for reasons of politeness . |
| 4 | Oswine 's power was clearly already weakening by January 690 for he refers in the grant to Abbess Aebbe at that time to those Kentish nobles who were able to be with him . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The second sentence of the issue of May 1988 refers to the first twenty years of the state : ‘ Threatening to ‘ push the Jews into the sea ’ , the Arab world reformulated the Nazi theory of Lebensraum in Mediterranean terms : there was no room in the region for a Jewish homeland . ’ |
| 7 | His distaste for such work may be seen from the fact that Breavman refers to the ( infrequently visited ) lecture rooms of Columbia by saying to Krantz : ‘ Nothing smells more like a slaughterhouse than a graduate seminar . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Gearing ’ refers to the increase in bills caused by authorities raising spending above their Standard Spending Assessments ( SSAs ) . |
| 10 | I notice that Jerry refers to the ‘ 15 3000 feet tops ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Panovarious ’ refers to both ovaries ; ‘ hyster ’ refers to the uterus or womb , and ‘ ectomy ’ simply means ‘ cutting out ’ , so there is your technical answer . |
| 12 | The original Know Nothing party arose in the 1860s ( its name refers to the fact that it was a secret party and its members , if interrogated , said they knew nothing about it ) . |
| 13 | ( 'Prime' does not simply mean ‘ expensive ’ — it refers to the more desirable types of property within each group , whether quaint country cottages , Georgian rectories or large estates . ) |
| 14 | The page reproduced in the Sinn Fein newspaper also refers to the Secret Intelligence Service , MI6 , an organisation the existence of which the Government still does not officially admit . |
| 15 | Their use of the word ‘ consciousness ’ refers to the system of meaning through which we apprehend the world , as well as the ideas , opinions and beliefs which we are aware of holding . |
| 16 | ‘ Error ’ here refers to the failure to respond to a warning light that comes on when a signal at red is passed . |
| 17 | It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way . |
| 18 | It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way . |
| 19 | But ‘ zero ’ refers to the communist era , when unemployment officially did not exist . |
| 20 | In accordance with the traditional scheme , he distinguishes methods of investigation and discovery from methods of teaching , and refers to the old notions of analysis and resolution , composition and synthesis . |
| 21 | If you were to take a pencil and cross out every verse in the New Testament which refers to the resurrection or to the idea that Jesus Christ is alive , you would not have much of the New Testament left . |
| 22 | Retaining the more serious label which refers to the causing of death may therefore perform a useful educative function ; it is hardly unfair to the driver , since this is the very risk against which the rules are intended to guard . |
| 23 | The same is true of the coinage of medieval Europe : we can tell that a coin is , say , Spanish or English from the inscription , which usually refers to the kingdom in question , but the date may well be far from apparent . |
| 24 | If that reconstruction is plausible it is likely that the story refers to the Magharba . |
| 25 | The old map refers to the southern section of Turnham Green as the ‘ Front Common ’ ( that on the north side of the High Road being referred to as the ‘ Back Common ’ ) and there existed , in Sutton Lane , overlooking the Packhorse Pond , ‘ The Chestnuts ’ , also Arlington House , with Arlington Park to the west , on the other side of the road from Fromow 's nursery , and the ruins of Heathfield House still shown on the road leading to Little Sutton and Dean 's Almshouses . |
| 26 | The word person or ‘ persona ’ refers to the face each one of us puts on the world . |
| 27 | One might argue from this that ‘ mind ’ simply refers to the subjective aspect of a complex bodily process of cognition . |
| 28 | The Oxford English Dictionary refers to the following gloss : ‘ a meaningless or even misleading phrase in English ’ . |
| 29 | Simpson ( op. cit. ) refers to the tour by Pennant ( 1774 & 1776 ) , but Slack ( 1986 ) makes it clear that Thomas Pennant and his companion the Rev. John Lightfoot did not visit the Outer Hebrides . |
| 30 | In fact , the early memorandum refers to the possibility of using water power , and no doubt this was considered . |