Example sentences of "to [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever you 're up to during the snowy season , a wonderful warm woolly makes the perfect winter wear . |
| 2 | We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year . |
| 3 | In some parts of the world the situation is referred to as the post-modern age or ‘ el postmo ’ , indicating the absence of new values in the wake of the bankruptcy of old ones . |
| 4 | These other sites are often referred to as the subcortical visual system . |
| 5 | The first is referred to as the efficient markets hypothesis . |
| 6 | The fedback gain represented by expression ( 10.26 ) is aptly referred to as the closed-loop gain and quite naturally corresponding descriptions open-loop gain and loop gain are often applied to the quantities A and respectively . |
| 7 | A solicitor or RFL for whom a shareholder holds shares as nominee is referred to as the beneficial owner of the shares , and |
| 8 | This is sometimes referred to as the critical consolute point . |
| 9 | In these cases , the main type is referred to as the primary item and the type associated with it is referred to as the secondary item . |
| 10 | His colleague Dr Freer-Smith said , ‘ in many areas of West Germany there is evidence to link specific pollutants as a major causal factor ; but I also think the Germans would accept that there are both natural and pollutant stresses interacting — the idea that has been referred to as the multiple stress hypothesis . ’ |
| 11 | The Japanese version of the Integrated Services Digital Network ( ISDN ) is referred to as the Integrated Network System ( INS ) . |
| 12 | When you hear some figure referred to as the federal deficit , that is after this convenient bit of jiggery-pokery . |
| 13 | This value is referred to as the lexical probability factor ( LPF ) . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , he viewed Coenwulf as a tyrant , who had compounded his deficiencies by putting away his wife and taking another ( as Eardwulf had done in Northumbria ) , and urged the Mercian patrician to advise the Mercian people to observe what he referred to as the good and chaste customs of Offa . |
| 15 | The followers of Rafsanjani 's policy of economic liberalization and a greater openness towards the exterior were referred to in Farsi as the Rouhanyat ( sometimes described to as the Combatant Clergy Association ) . |
| 16 | It is sometimes referred to as the wan design ( wan being the Chinese character for 10,000 ) and represents 10,000 happiness . |
| 17 | Various names are used , such as administrative therapy , but the technique is most generally referred to as the therapeutic community approach . |
| 18 | It was the unfortunate Bishop of Norwich , hereinafter referred to as The Bloody Bishop , to quote Her Royal Highness , who had trouble grasping how quietly she became a hospice star . |
| 19 | They believe that there is an ‘ intermediate strata ’ sandwiched between what they refer to as the working and service classes . |
| 20 | What Bartlett and Ghoshal refer to as the global company is alleged to be the result of Japanese practice developed in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 21 | It is sometimes referred to as the internal schema , for example , by ANSI/X3/SPARC ( 1975 ) . |
| 22 | When the event precipitating the change is a visual or auditory stimulus under experimental control the resulting activity is referred to as the visual or auditory evoked potential . |
| 23 | The maze of assumptions that constitute this other part of the structure is what Lakatos refers to as the protective belt . |
| 24 | In the final analysis , collective security was founded on what Nizan referred to as the Soviet formula of " treaties accessible to everyone " , not on the Hitlerian formula of " treaties accessible to a few at the exclusion of everyone else " , Nizan ceaselessly denounced all attempts to reduce international diplomacy to what he disparagingly termed " private agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 25 | The ‘ Act for the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt , for the Punishment of Fraudulent Debtors and other purposes ’ , to give it its full name , was , said Wetherfield , a very short , simple and sweeping measure , ‘ a great innovation upon what we have become accustomed to as the legal relations of debtor and creditor . ’ |
| 26 | This , the Lower Limestone of 19th century surveyors , passes up into a thick sequence of sandstones and shales with thin limestones referred to as the Middle Limestone or ‘ Calp ’ . |
| 27 | For the majority of mouse strains , eggs or embryos placed in culture at any stage before the mid 2-cell stage will arrest development in the G2 phase of the second cell cycle-a phenomenon referred to as the 2-cell block ( discussed in ref 17 ) . |
| 28 | The process was initiated in 1970 and is now referred to as the European Political Cooperation Procedure . |
| 29 | Marx predicted that this group , which he referred to as the petty ( or petit ) bourgeoisie , would be progressively squeezed into the proletariat . |
| 30 | The phase diagram for such systems , when the solvent is poor , is depicted by area A in figure 8.8 , where the critical temperature T c occurs near the maximum of the cloud-point curve and is often referred to as the upper critical solution temperature ( UCST ) . |