Example sentences of "to [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That ought to worth a knighthood , ’ Jim from the Royal Hospital School mutters into his Adnams . |
| 2 | There are voices you turn to as a friend , and you do n't just turn your back on your friends if they go off the rails . |
| 3 | He was about to explain , how a whoremaster in Glasgow slang , was referred to as a stickman , when Winnie said , ‘ I think I understand . ’ |
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| 5 | The cost of the path would increase to as a word from this region was incorporated , and the algorithm would backtrack to one of the apparently better extensions where the cost was . |
| 6 | In Video Plan 6 we have an example of very intensive treatment of a very short sequence ( 26 seconds ) where the video is repeatedly returned to as a stimulus to another activity . |
| 7 | Throughout this report the three attainment bands are referred to as a bottom ( B ) , middle ( M ) and top(T) . |
| 8 | This is often referred to as a consideration of the patient 's future ‘ quality of life ’ . |
| 9 | What may have been looked forward to as a release may instead be an unexpected let-down , with retirement from work adding to the feeling of helplessness and lack of purpose . |
| 10 | The most favoured option is to pick a well-known name and either anthologise him or produce what is now grandly referred to as a biodrama . |
| 11 | Since COSE does n't want to be referred to as a consortium , group , organisation or initiative , maybe we should start calling it ‘ La Cozy Nostra . ’ |
| 12 | The signal is plotted as the temperature of the sample is increased , up to 500°C typically , and the output is referred to as a glow curve ( fig. 7.10 ) . |
| 13 | The top personnel in these enterprises have been referred to as a state bourgeoisie. we can , therefore , identify three fractions : domestic capitalists ; managers of multinationals and top administrators of public enterprises . |
| 14 | The display ground is referred to as a lek , which , depending on the species , may be located in the centre of a large open meadow or deep in a tropical rain forest . |
| 15 | For example , a rug made in the Kars region of Anatolia ( Turkey ) in a traditional Kazak ( Caucasian ) design will normally be referred to as a Kars Kazak . |
| 16 | A triplet of bases signifying an amino acid is referred to as a CODON , e.g. GCU is the codon for Alanine . |
| 17 | This device is also often referred to as a VDU ( Visual Display Unit ) ( see Figure 1.3 ) . |
| 18 | Moyer 's Buttress is no exception and is probably the finest climb on the crag , tackling a feature which in days of yore would no doubt have been referred to as a bastion . |
| 19 | Henceforth , the embryo is referred to as a fetus . |
| 20 | the descriptive matter printed below an illustration , mostly referred to as a caption . |
| 21 | The pragmatism of political urgency must be allowed to sully the purity of intellectual thought ; what is needed , at least in the short term , is what Gayatri Spivak has referred to as a kind of ‘ strategic essentialism ’ . |
| 22 | The device we call a page printer , by the way , is more usually referred to as a laser printer , much more exciting . |
| 23 | He needed the sort of chemist 's he had gone to as a child . |
| 24 | They 'd been married in a church she 'd always gone to as a child and afterwards there was a reception in the Mansfield Hotel , near by and convenient , and then she and Gordon had gone to Cumberland . |
| 25 | This is referred to as a Genlock card , a term arising from television broadcasting jargon meaning ‘ generator lock ’ . |
| 26 | There was no strapping on Nogai 's forearm , but Rostov supposed that on Tarvaras a sprain or a cracked bone could just as easily be referred to as a break , depending upon the state of medical knowledge . |
| 27 | Following its defeats in municipal elections and in elections to the House of Councillors in July 1989 [ see pp. 36800-01 ] , the LDP had embarked upon a programme aimed at reasserting and regaining the political influence which had been damaged not only by the scandals but also by the imposition of an unpopular 3 per cent general consumption tax [ GCT — see p. 36618 , where it is wrongly referred to as a value added tax ] and by the liberalization of import controls in the agricultural sector [ see p. 36800 ] . |
| 28 | These are matters which must be attended to as a matter of priority before business commences : it makes no sense at all to leave them to be dealt with in accordance with the Partnership Act . |
| 29 | In no other country in the EC is a pharmacist referred to as a chemist . |
| 30 | The first person I ever came out to as a student was a person I suspected of being gay and everyone else thought he was gay ; in fact , he vehemently denied it after I came out . |