Example sentences of "referred to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing Jack loathes more than reading some publication in which I 've referred to him as a saint and I 'm sure Reggie feels the same way . |
| 2 | The local press referred to him as the Supremo . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | He had met Graham , or Green as he had referred to him throughout the interrogation , for the first time at the Windorah . |
| 5 | In 1859 Engels contemptuously referred to them as the ‘ ruins ’ of a people ‘ no longer capable of a national existence ’ . |
| 6 | Experienced solicitors took turns in seeing defendants in custody and those referred to them by the court so that they could advise ( not represent ) an appropriate course of action . |
| 7 | the merits of such proposals as are referred to them by the Select Committee ; |
| 8 | The official referred to me to the Homeless Unit . |
| 9 | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People . |
| 10 | Her family had always referred to her as the ‘ egghead ’ . |
| 11 | Jack jokingly referred to her as an addition to the family . |
| 12 | Sarah Moon , a London acupuncturist who specialises in pain relief during labour , says that women are often referred to her through the National Childbirth Trust or an active birth group . |
| 13 | On those grounds , the court in reply to the questions referred to it for a preliminary ruling by the High Court of Justice of England and Wales , Queen 's Bench Division , by order of 10 March 1989 , hereby rules : |
| 14 | Details are hard to elicit from the texts , since in AD 529 it was abolished by Justinian , who later brusquely referred to it as a tenebrosissimus error . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( 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 ’ . ) |
| 17 | This exhibition had received little attention in the press , though l'Autorité and Paris Journal had referred to it as an ‘ exhibition of Fauves and Cubists ’ no doubt through a confusion of terms , but also partly because this seemed the only way of describing the manifold tendencies represented , which were as divergent as at Brussels . |
| 18 | The Welsh Office has shown itself barely capable of handling planning matters referred to it under the appeals system . |
| 19 | Convocation has a role defined in the Charter : it may ‘ discuss and pronounce an opinion on any matters whatsoever relating to the University including any matters referred to it by the Court or the Council ’ . |
| 20 | The Monopolies and Mergers Commission may , under the Fair Trading Act 1973 , have referred to it by the Director of Fair Trading or a Minister for investigation and report whether a monopoly , as defined , is or is not against the public interest . |
| 21 | The National Association of Pension Funds ( NAPF ) acts as the lobbying body on behalf of the pension industry , but has no specific regulatory powers , nor does the Occupation Pensions Board ( OPB ) which comments on pension matters that are referred to it by the Secretary of State ( and also has responsibility for issuing contracting out certificates ) . |