Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] refer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , you can always refer to books but this is rarely convenient if you have a piece of work to do for a deadline . |
| 2 | The broad feature , which we can loosely refer to as a quasi-periodic oscillation ( QPO ) can not be seen directly in the light curve , because many cycles need to be averaged to overcome Poisson noise . |
| 3 | We can perhaps refer to the superior working-class culture and superior beer , but we are not allowed to refer to the economic or industrial successes . |
| 4 | In Book I , Chapter 3 , Section 3 of his A System of Logic ( written before he had decided that a quality is simply a sensation regarded in a certain relation ) he distinguishes between a sensation and a quality , a distinction which , he feels , may be missed because we can seldom refer to the sensation otherwise than by a circumlocution , for example , by reference to the quality , as when we call a sensation ‘ the sensation of white ’ . |
| 5 | Both pronouns can be used to refer to ‘ a man ’ or ‘ a woman ’ in the abstract ( e.g. Sonnets 3 , 21 , 32 , 38 , 41 ) and They can also refer to ‘ men , women , the world ’ ( e.g. Sonnets 20 , 25 , 69 , 121 , 123 , 124 , 125 ) . |
| 6 | However , as Fillmore ( 1975 ) notes , these have two kinds of referent : they can either refer to the entire span itself , as in ( 56 ) , or to a point within the relevant span , as in ( 57 ) : ( 56 ) Tomorrow is Wednesday ( 57 ) Dennis hit Murphy with a baseball bat yesterday Note that the deictic words yesterday , today and tomorrow pre-empt the calendrical or absolute ways of referring to the relevant days . |