Example sentences of "[be] generally refer to " in BNC.
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1 | The birds are generally referred to as doves in the modern literature , but as Nilsson points out there is often little evidence of species . |
2 | The " mothers " , as they are generally referred to , are women who until a few years ago had never spoken in public , never organized a campaign . |
3 | The former are generally referred to as kelims or flatweaves , and are normally the cheaper and less frequently encountered of the two types . |
4 | Flatwoven rugs are generally referred to as kelims ( or gelims ) , which is a Turkish word meaning prayer rug . |
5 | In prayer-rug designs this arch-shaped form is usually found at the top end of the composition , although it is sometimes employed at both ends in what are generally referred to as " double-ended " prayer rugs ( pls. 17 and 18 ) . |
6 | Russian Turkomans are normally marketed as either Bokharas or Beshirs , depending on their design , and those made in Afghanistan are generally referred to as Afghans or Bokharas , although they may be named after the specific weaving village or tribe ( Kundous , Beshir , etc ) . |
7 | The former are generally referred to as Mori Bokharas , and the latter usually marketed as Mori Kashans . |
8 | The aim of the paper is to initiate a discussion of the economic advantages of tapping the resources of the mother tongue of those minority adults , who are generally referred to as South Asian minorities . |
9 | Courses leading to qualifications up to and including A level or its equivalent are generally referred to as non-advanced further education ( NAFE ) ; qualifications above A-level standard as advanced further education ( AFE ) . |
10 | State or public sector schemes are generally referred to as ‘ pay-as-you-go ’ , whereas private funds are generally externally funded . |
11 | Although he was not a member of the PLO 's 15-man executive committee and had no formal title within the organization , Abu Iyad had since 1987 been generally referred to as Arafat 's second-in-command . |
12 | In principle , linguistic semantics is concerned with the analysis of single sentences ; the analysis of collections of sentences being generally referred to as discourse processing . |
13 | By the end of the Regency period , England had produced and patented many different types of external rendering , which today is generally referred to as stucco . |
14 | In an amplified state it is generally referred to as ‘ expanded consciousness ’ — a condition that allows us to process through our nervous system , information from the environment which during a normal state of consciousness is totally inaccessible . |
15 | This material is generally referred to as ‘ L ’ . |
16 | It is generally referred to as the House of Canmore , though Canmore was originally only a nickname — Malcolm ‘ the Great Head ’ — not bestowed in any complimentary sense by those who suffered under his notorious rages and lust for war . |
17 | Such a series of tests is generally referred to as " graded " or " graduated " tests . |
18 | As a rug gets older the colours become more subdued ; this mellowing process is caused by the reaction of the dyes to light , and it can take between 20 and 50 years before the rug reaches what is generally referred to as " the primary stage of mellowness " . |
19 | They are , however , most closely associated with the Russian town of Bokhara , which was traditionally used as a marketing centre for their wares , and today any item employing a gul design is generally referred to as a Bokhara rug . |
20 | When the content of silver reaches a half the metal is generally referred to as electrum . |
21 | This approach is generally referred to as functional sentence perspective ( FSP ) . |
22 | , Richard ( fl. 1572–1596 ) , navigator and privateer , claimed to have been born at Buckhurst , Essex , but is generally referred to as ‘ of Weymouth ’ . |
23 | Whoever 's fault it actually was , the French aggressors , perhaps appropriately , were eventually blamed , for syphilis was generally referred to thereafter as the ‘ morbus gallicus ’ . |
24 | Lhote , who had already established a certain independent reputation , mixed cautiously in Cubist circles , but from 1911 onwards was generally referred to as a Cubist , although his somewhat academic style often gained him exemption from the unfavourable criticism directed at the other painters . |