Example sentences of "referred to it " in BNC.

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1 A 10th Anniversary article in the Observer referred to it as ‘ a small back-room in an alley off London 's Fleet Street , ’ and within days the office was getting letters addressed to ‘ Amnesty , Alley Off Fleet Street ’ .
2 ‘ I made one speech on the subject and I 've not referred to it since , and there seems no purpose in doing so . ’
3 He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt .
4 Nicholas Pevsner later referred to it as having a ‘ blustering High Victorian effect ’ .
5 The question of the proper age of transfer was referred to it , as the West Riding was making plans for a series of middle schools spanning the age range nine to thirteen .
6 It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’
7 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 .
8 Most of us have the problem of faulty perception or , as Alexander often referred to it , ‘ debauched kinaesthesia ’ .
9 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 ’ .
10 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 .
11 It would respond to concerns referred to it , rather than being naturally intrusive , and so would operate more effectively than an SEC .
12 It would only respond to matters referred to it .
13 Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it .
14 ( 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 ’ . )
15 Indeed , when the academic discipline of ‘ criminology ’ is referred to it is almost invariably taken to mean only positivist criminology in this wider sense , with its extensive research and literature and established ( though competing ) theories .
16 Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon .
17 Where the claim arises under the law of the requesting State , and is neither supported by material in the request or conceded by the applicant for the order , the court may order that the evidence be taken , but the evidence is not transmitted to the requesting court if that court , on the matter being referred to it , upholds the claim .
18 The Law Reform Committee , a standing body with a Secretary provided by the Lord Chancellor 's Office , functioned on a part-time basis producing reports on those aspects of the civil law as were referred to it by Ministers .
19 In putting through Parliament the Law Commissions Act 1965 he created separate Law Commissions for England and Wales , and for Scotland , each with a seconded High Court judge as chairman , and a staff of qualified lawyers and others with the obligation to investigate particular questions referred to it , or on its own initiative to conduct a regular programme of inquiry into the general state of the law or any particular question , civil or criminal , which they chose to select .
20 Convocation has the power to discuss and state its opinion on any matter affecting the University , including matters referred to it by Court , Council or Senate and it elects up to nine members of the University Court .
21 This attitude to non-verbal communication has been encouraged by the popularisation of right-brain left-brain studies and amongst those who sponsor the soft primitivism that I have just referred to it is widely assumed that the verbal capabilities of the left cerebral hemisphere have been over-developed by a culture which puts too much emphasis on linguistic finesse and that the expressive repertoire of the supposedly holistic right hemisphere has been dangerously neglected as a consequence .
22 I am asking the Court further , in the event that it considers itself so empowered , to treat the case as having been referred to it by me under section 17(1) ( a ) . ’
23 ( 2 ) It was necessary for the judge to deal with the point about the breach of the Code to the jury because TJ 's counsel 's speech had referred to it , although strictly the issue whether there had been a breach of the Code was a matter for the judge and not the jury .
24 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 :
25 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 .
26 They called the job crow-keeping , a phrase that Shakespeare used to describe it ; some called it bird-keeping or bird-tending — keeping the birds off the newly sown land — while others referred to it simply as rook-scaring .
27 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 .
28 I have referred to it here because , to me , Mexico was a curtain-raiser to the horrors we were to uncover later .
29 to prepare briefing materials on issues referred to it by MCC or other bodies for the information of MCC ;
30 The Welsh Office has shown itself barely capable of handling planning matters referred to it under the appeals system .
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