Example sentences of "refer to [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 2 | Yet , at the same time , the wording of the administration of the bread and wine , which referred to them as the ‘ body and blood ’ of Christ , implied the real presence so important in Luther 's theology . |
| 3 | It was he who after a particularly violent disagreement , suggested that Joan should be invited to pay them another visit — though he referred to her as the lady Anne , as had been agreed . |
| 4 | This could be ( and has been ) achieved not only by investigative journalism and television documentaries , which do appear to have influenced the general level of awareness amongst American citizens to such an extent that Spiro Agnew referred to it as the ‘ post-Watergate ’ morality . |
| 5 | Throughout the book he referred to it as the monster or used another word which expressed his hatred for it . |
| 6 | We shall therefore refer to it as the Fundamental Theorem of Vector Programming . |
| 7 | We label this line AD and shall refer to it as the aggregate demand curve . |
| 8 | For brevity we can refer to it as the PCBCR . |
| 9 | He would refer to it as the ‘ funny stuff what makes me happy , ’ claiming to live for it . |
| 10 | But they 've got both you see and they refer to them as the ducks or the drakes so they |
| 11 | I have demonstrated this knitting technique at my local knitting club and now the members refer to it as the ‘ Sylvia Glenister buttonholes ’ ! |
| 12 | ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly . |
| 13 | It is the students who refer to it as the black magic course . |
| 14 | The local press referred to him as the Supremo . |
| 15 | A. N. L. Munby [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ a collector with an eye for quality and the means to indulge it without stint ’ and , no doubt in tribute to the superb quality of his illuminated manuscripts and early printed books , referred to him as the ‘ Ideal Connoisseur ’ . |
| 16 | In 1859 Engels contemptuously referred to them as the ‘ ruins ’ of a people ‘ no longer capable of a national existence ’ . |
| 17 | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People . |
| 18 | Her family had always referred to her as the ‘ egghead ’ . |
| 19 | Paracelsus , the Swiss alchemist and physician ( 1493- 1541 ) , referred to it as the ‘ Archeus ’ — the light or energy that underlies the world of shadow or the material world . |
| 20 | ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . ) |
| 21 | She refers to them as the ‘ Children Of The Crown ’ . |
| 22 | For a good overview of both positions , see Fries ( 1983 ) , who refers to them as the ‘ separating ’ approach and the ‘ combining ’ approach . |
| 23 | Ran refers to them as the Nottingham KGB , ’ Dr Allan said . |
| 24 | The bird has a piercing yellow eye and I think an older generation of wild-fowlers still refers to it as the golden-eye although that name , strictly speaking , belongs to an entirely different species . |
| 25 | We used to refer to him as the man of principle . |
| 26 | She is the most powerful magician ever to wear the crown of Kislev , and her aloof majesty and inscrutable disposition has caused many to refer to her as the Ice Queen of Kislev . |
| 27 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 28 | However , he was much more explicit in his references to the nature of ‘ adolescence ’ , referring to it as the age of ‘ terrible peril ’ which had to be responded to ; the ‘ wayward forces ’ had to be ‘ rightly directed ’ , so that the ‘ new instincts and impulses , the new faculties and powers … shall be rightly exercised and trained , and that protection shall be given as far as possible against the temptations to which it is exposed ’ . |
| 29 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
| 30 | This relationship was discovered by Gauss who recognized its importance by referring to it as the ‘ Excellent ’ Theorem . |