Example sentences of "refer [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff absences actually refer in the main , to er , unfortunate situation of a number of staff this year , who have er , been suspended , er , because of er , various matters , er , which have had to be worked through . |
| 2 | They also refer outside the text to the cultural and symbolic codes that the reader ( Balzac 's , if not Barthes 's ) might be expected to know . |
| 3 | Their utterances are syntactically simpler , contain a narrower range of semantic content , and less frequently refer outside the here-and-now . |
| 4 | refer to a stage direction , not to life . |
| 5 | You refer to a recent study of mine on the success and failure of leveraged buyouts . |
| 6 | The eighty notebooks in the Berg Collection refer to a process of discovery , loss , and rediscovery throughout his writing life . |
| 7 | Though they more usually refer to a later distinction of Hume 's , between ‘ relations of ideas ’ and ‘ matters of fact ’ , recent philosophers have commonly distinguished cases where we proceed , in Locke 's words , by ‘ the contemplation of our own abstract ideas ’ from those where , because there is no ‘ discoverable connection ’ between our ideas , we have to fall back on observation and experiment . |
| 8 | When most people refer to a ‘ vaginal ’ discharge , they are , in fact , begging the question of the source of their complaint . |
| 9 | In the latest edition of his Principles of Family Law , Professor Cretney repeats the argument that the use of the words ‘ male ’ and ‘ female ’ in section 11(c) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ( which repealed and reproduced the provisions of the Nullity Act 1971 ) , suggests that it ‘ may thus be possible to argue that the terms ‘ male ’ and ‘ ‘ female ’ refer to a person 's gender ( that is to say , the sex to which he psychically belongs ) ’ . |
| 10 | The parish records of St. Martin by Looe Church refer to a seventy foot whale ‘ … driven ashore , dead , near Millendreath ’ in 1718 . |
| 11 | They refer to a carefully measured and controlled response to provocation . |
| 12 | The 25 May 1790 Odiham minutes refer to a London committee , of which Huntingford was secretary , and which met at 10 Welbeck Street . |
| 13 | Psychologists often refer to a list of generally used defences : repression , denial , displacement , splitting , projection and reaction formation are the most commonly used . |
| 14 | Also known as Mound-folk , the Hillmen are Scandinavian in origin and refer to a class of beings between ELF and human . |
| 15 | These refer to a title set lower than the first line of a page of ordinary text . |
| 16 | The general public might have been disappointed but they needed only refer to a contemporary poem then available : |
| 17 | By contrast , the legends concerning Atlantis and the others refer to a period of time only a few thousand years ago . |
| 18 | It would have been sensible to consult my book of British butterflies before I started for I soon realised using authentic colours greatly improves the overall impression ; if you can , I would suggest you refer to a book also . |
| 19 | Popular television crime series , such as Kojak , Minder , The Sweeney , Softly , Softly , Starsky and Hutch , Hill Street Blues , Shoestring , The Professionals , The Gentle Touch , and Z Cars , never focus on corporate criminals , and hardly ever refer to a related but different type of upper-world crime , the white-collar criminal . |
| 20 | If we say newspapers are a mass medium , we refer to a particular kind of ‘ message — news . |
| 21 | ‘ Film ’ and ‘ movie ’ refer to a technology and ‘ cinema ’ , by connoting a location , to ‘ receivers ’ . |
| 22 | When considering local government services , therefore , we must be careful to avoid the assumption that these refer to a settled collection . |
| 23 | When we say that a ring round the moon means rain , we refer to a connection in nature . |
| 24 | When we say that a flag at half-mast means that someone has died , we refer to a social convention that death shall be marked in this way . |
| 25 | Some recent work , however , particularly in attempting to historicise the insights of Freud , and to demonstrate the specificity of his categories ( that is , showing how they refer to a particular cultural milieu ) has opened up new possibilities . |
| 26 | Sir , I refer to a theme mentioned by P. Todd ( letters S.R.N . |
| 27 | Specific requests refer to a particular aspect of clarification , either a request for repetition , confirmation , or specification . |
| 28 | By controlling the value held in the index register , we can make the add instruction refer to a different element each time it is executed . |
| 29 | In a second class of cases we refer to a condition which is unusual or abnormal . |
| 30 | For example , the adjectives affable and amiable which describe Mrs Moreen and her family refer to a superficial benignity of manner , rather than to the more solid social qualities which would be suggested by such Anglo-Saxon equivalents as friendly and kind-hearted . |