Example sentences of "referred to as [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate could n't help resenting the fact that his eyes were firmly fixed on what had once been referred to as her greatest assets ‘ … particularly after a provocative remark like that ! ’ he drawled . |
| 2 | The full set of normality relations which a lexical item contracts with all conceivable contexts will be referred to as its contextual relations . |
| 3 | This is the firm 's minimax profit , and it is also often referred to as its ‘ security level ’ , since the firm can not be forced to take a lower profit than that . |
| 4 | It is this which some journalists , using a phrase made popular by A.M. Klein , have referred to as his ‘ stony , Semitic stare . ’ |
| 5 | Godfrey de Lucy [ q.v. ] , later bishop of Winchester , is once referred to as his fellow student . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) All other estates , interests , and charges in or over land take effect as equitable interests ; ( 4 ) The estates , interests , and charges which under this section are authorised to subsist or be conveyed or created at law are ( when subsisting or conveyed or created at law ) in this Act referred to as " legal estates , " and have the same incidents as legal estates subsisting at the commencement of this Act ; and the owner of a legal estate is referred to as " an estate owner " and his legal estate is referred to as his estate . |
| 7 | Indeed the next hours after my return were spent explaining that we had no plans to use either troops or tanks and justifying what a BBC interviewer referred to as my ‘ controversial ’ four-day summer holiday . |