Example sentences of "to refer to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should be able to go into turns and make centring movements without having to refer to the slip ball , yaw string , or ASI . |
| 2 | The same kind of representational language could be used to refer to the working of a television set or indeed a thermostat . |
| 3 | 7.2.1 At present , general practitioners are free to refer to the hospital and consultant of their choice , although in practice this freedom has been restricted in recent years , partly because of health authorities ' reluctance to accept cross-boundary patients . |
| 4 | If we were to use the word ‘ God ’ to mean something subject to change we would have ceased to use it in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic sense to refer to the mystery of Creation . |
| 5 | She asked the court to refer to the European Court the question of whether Article 59 of the EC Treaty could be taken as meaning that a member state could bar the giving of information in its territory about services in another member state that were illegal in the first country . |
| 6 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 7 | In the one sense , the term is used to refer to the ordinary aspects of police work , in the other , it is the process by which police work is done that is described as ‘ routine ’ . |
| 8 | Still , we have to this extent moved on , that not merely are we , in the context of this phenomenon , allowed to refer to the facts but we are actually now allowed to criticise those who suppress the facts . |
| 9 | IN THE tunnel between Gloucester Road and Earls Court , the train-supposedly bound for Richmond-has come to a halt : 25 minutes pass , a hot , cross silence broken only by the coughs and tuts and groans and rattling Evening Standards of disgruntled passengers ( sorry , ‘ customers ’ ; London Underground now wishes to refer to the sad user of the subterranean network as a ‘ customer , ’ dictionary definition : n. one who buys ) . |
| 10 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 11 | Some years ago Christian theologians coined the phrase ‘ the scandal of particularity ’ to refer to the apparent problems surrounding the identification of a particular , historical individual with the Son of God . |
| 12 | However , when the Parkers passed by , some were cruel enough to refer to the minister and his attractive wife as ‘ The Beauty and the Beast ’ . |
| 13 | Joseph Parker returned home from a visit , to refer to the ‘ spirit of equality and brotherhood [ which ] everywhere prevailed ’ and Silvester Horne praised the ‘ freer ecclesiastical atmosphere of America ’ . |
| 14 | To avoid confusion of terms , I prefer to refer to the activities as either projected or ‘ non-projected ’ . |
| 15 | The NVC is intended to provide a national standard for describing vegetation , in much the same way as a national Flora describes the species , and so it is clearly desirable to refer to the NVC in local Floras . |
| 16 | If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object . |
| 17 | There was a short silence as they both drank coffee , and then Miriam said sharply , ‘ Why should it be odd to refer to the infant in the neuter ? |
| 18 | It is to save them the need to refer to the very foundations of morality and practical reasoning generally in every case . |
| 19 | Indeed , on occasions , the word ‘ nation ’ was used by Engels to refer to the inhabitants of a State regardless of language , culture or ethnicity . |
| 20 | The term proactive interference is used to refer to the fact that prior learning can interfere with the acquisition , retention , or use of new information . |
| 21 | Today , in the climate of deregulation , the term ‘ independent ’ is generally used in the purely economic sense , to refer to the growing number of smaller commercial companies operating outside the BBC/ITV duopoly . |
| 22 | Remember to refer to the Therapeutic Charts and information on blending as outlined in Chapter 5 . |
| 23 | There are no complete instructions for any procedure and the reader would have to refer to the appropriate ASM method . |
| 24 | The worker is likely to have to climb over knees and bags several times as the clients wait , in order to get client records from the general office or to refer to the information system . |
| 25 | His more contemporary recollection , however , placed the farmhouse ‘ a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church ’ , a description which has almost always been said to identify Ash Farm , but which is perhaps more likely to refer to the former Withycombe Farm . |
| 26 | It may be useful also to refer to the National Code of Local Government Conduct , para. 5 ( Appendix D , post , p. 105 ) . |
| 27 | From these definitions you will see that crime and delinquency are one form of deviance ( strictly speaking , delinquency refers to anti-social and illegal behaviour , but in sociology it is usually linked with ‘ juvenile ’ and used to refer to the criminality and misconduct of youths ) . |
| 28 | Interactionist approaches to crime and deviance have centred around the concept of labelling , with the term labelling theory sometimes used to refer to the Interactionist perspective on rule-breaking . |
| 29 | Before concluding , it would be useful to refer to the more common crime of employee theft , ‘ fiddling at work ’ . |
| 30 | But we do not have to refer to the para-normal , our understanding of art and poetry and our experiences in mysticism are developments of new senses . |