Example sentences of "[being] referred to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critical assets being referred to were the twelve M2D Amphibious Bridging and Ferrying Vehicles operated by the troop , which lay dispersed and camouflaged under the high oak and pine trees of this wooded harbour area , about thirty kilometres south-east of Hamburg . |
| 2 | The old map refers to the southern section of Turnham Green as the ‘ Front Common ’ ( that on the north side of the High Road being referred to as the ‘ Back Common ’ ) and there existed , in Sutton Lane , overlooking the Packhorse Pond , ‘ The Chestnuts ’ , also Arlington House , with Arlington Park to the west , on the other side of the road from Fromow 's nursery , and the ruins of Heathfield House still shown on the road leading to Little Sutton and Dean 's Almshouses . |
| 3 | Also , in the meantime , a military revolt had taken place in the Spanish army , lead by General Franco , and it soon became clear the division of the contending sides were , on the one side , The Nationalists who were strongly supported by Italy , Germany and Portugal , and on The other side , the government forces , supported by Communist Russia , which led to that side being referred to as ‘ Republicans ’ . |
| 4 | Sue Jennings ' ( 1973 ) approach to Drama Therapy is a good example of all sorts of group and individual game-like experiences being referred to as drama . |
| 5 | According to the Commission for Racial Equality , one similar instance a week is being referred to them . |
| 6 | Whether it was being referred to that week as The Tea Room , The Oasis or The Hole ( I liked that one too ) , it was always basically night inside , A Good Night Out ; not black as jeweller 's velvet exactly , except on a good night , but always when you stepped in off the street it was truly night inside , a night dark enough to dream in and on which to meet strangers , whatever the variations on where and when this particular night had fallen . |
| 7 | I began to get nervous when these new fluorescent vehicles started being referred to as ‘ mountain' bikes . |
| 8 | Anyway , that was the theory about her disappearance and it changed from being a theory to being referred to as what had probably happened and then later still it was accepted . |
| 9 | This is a vast amount of energy saved , sufficient to justify conservation being referred to as ‘ the fifth fuel ’ . |
| 10 | Joan Felthouse indicated in her introductory comments that many members of the Animal Welfare Movement dislike being referred to as ‘ bunny huggers ’ . |
| 11 | Some councils therefore still insist on every committee decision being referred to the full council for confirmation or rejection . |
| 12 | After the IPS requirements had been specified during Activity 3 of the FAOR approach , it was employed to forecast the possible effects of the proposed system in terms of benefits and disadvantages ( the latter being referred to disbenefits in the FAOR publication ) . |
| 13 | I believe the phase by Alan Witherden being referred to is ‘ watersport is not particularly attractive to Black people ’ . |
| 14 | They have very little root , thus being referred to as floating teeth , and are easily removed by either the horse dentist or vet . |
| 15 | Women with bulimia who are abusing drugs or alcohol or both can benefit from being referred to specialist services , at least initially . |
| 16 | In most cases , decisions would be based on local custom , disputes often being referred to the oldest men present , those with the longest memories . |
| 17 | But the hearer still has to act on this indication and find which particular farmer is thereby being referred to . |
| 18 | The result is the distinctive ‘ raised bands ’ of early books , the spaces between the bands often being referred to as compartments . |
| 19 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 20 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 21 | ‘ It was very disturbing to hear of patients being referred to as ‘ nigger ’ . |
| 22 | What is important , however , is that when statistics on incidence and prevalence enter the public and professional domains we should be clear exactly what behaviour is being referred to and what is included in the operational definition of abuse . |
| 23 | Microsoft Corp 's chief hatchet man Steve Ballmer has been telling people that Windows NT will be available in May : meanwhile object-oriented Cairo is now apparently being referred to as NT Version 2 . |
| 24 | The small species , formerly P. africanus , is now being referred to a new species , with P. africanus being restricted to Koru and Songhor , together with the similarly sized but morphologically distinct Rangwapithecus gordoni . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Cairo is now apparently being referred to as NT Version 2 . |
| 26 | Unschooled children , if the evidence does demonstrate that they are being less explicit , may in fact be taking it for granted that the questioner can see what is being referred to so that there is no apparent need to be explicit . |
| 27 | In order to communicate , some agreement has to be reached by the participants as to what worlds , out of all possible ones , are being referred to . |
| 28 | Despite the tenant being referred to as ‘ him ’ , it is generally the woman of the household who bears the brunt of housing management principles . |
| 29 | Cited in the writings of the Carolingian age , the De re militari began to enjoy a particular vogue during the renaissance of the twelfth century , being referred to as an authority on military matters by writers who had no first-hand knowledge of war . |
| 30 | 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 . |