Example sentences of "may refer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , Anthony Easthope acknowledges the distinction at one point in Poetry as Discourse : ‘ Failure to distinguish clearly between signified and referent , the object it may refer to , has led to serious confusion in some accounts of the ideogram . ’ |
| 2 | Individuals who wish to travel alone or in small groups may refer to Saga 's latest brochures , whick contain details of holidays to all of these countries , though obviously not to the specific locations . |
| 3 | Being an air-dried product , Parma ham is raw and should be referred to as ‘ prosciutto crudo ’ — prosciutto is the Italian word for ham and may refer to cheaper hams that may look like Parma but are not . |
| 4 | Also ‘ areas ’ may refer to a few kms 2 or to whole countries , so that areas or pockets of declining food production may coexist with , and have no social access to , other areas of increased food production . |
| 5 | It is a ‘ right ’ to the extent that , at the trial , the prosecution may not comment at all on the accused 's failure to answer questions and the judge may refer to it , but not adversely : the point is that in no circumstances should silence be used against an accused person . |
| 6 | may refer to Hyde Park , Green Park , or St James 's Park . |
| 7 | to advise the Secretary of State on such matters concerned with the curriculum for maintained schools as he may refer to it or as it may see fit |
| 8 | to advise the Secretary of State on such matters concerned with examinations and assessment as he may refer to it or as it may see fit |
| 9 | A slightly different type of case is illustrated by the French feminine noun la sentinelle ( the guard ) , which usually refers to a man , and the masculine noun le ministre ( minister in the government ) , which may refer to a woman . |
| 10 | Some other records between November and February may refer to wintering rather than wandering birds , but otherwise all reports were of birds apparently passing through . |
| 11 | They may refer to it or harbour it secretly and allow it to sour their trust and love . |
| 12 | The parable may refer to the fact that in Jesus ' time the Zealots ( this was a name given to nationalists ) were stirring up the peasants to revolt against such landlords . |
| 13 | The four words ‘ Star — word — herb — gem ’ may refer to contemporary occult philosophy , which saw a continuous order of relationship in nature . |
| 14 | Our sportsdesk can detect from the far end of a crease someone who has gone through life under the impression that Bodyline may refer to a one-piece undergarment . |
| 15 | The name tystie , which comes from the old Norse language , may refer to the birds ’ high-pitched , ‘ reedy ’ call . |
| 16 | Others have a bawdy touch , although AME ME , AMO TE may refer to the beaker and its contents as in the ditty ‘ Little Brown Jug ’ . |
| 17 | The case roles have been modified since Fillmore 's original definition to include restrictions such as these , but the restriction lists grow to an interminable length and the technique is still unable to recognise that two expressions ( e.g. ’ the woman ’ and ’ she ’ ) may refer to the same individual . |
| 18 | Children evidently realize this quite early in the process of language acquisition , and accept the fact that different words may refer to the same entity — e.g. , our dog , Fred , that wretched animal , and so on . |
| 19 | The second is that curriculum integration , augmentation and substitution may refer to one or other or both of process and content , depending upon one 's perspective on curriculum change and the epistemological and pedagogical assumptions underpinning it . |
| 20 | ( b ) question specific ; or , consist of generalized categories reflecting either a view of mathematical features , e.g. " skills " , " knowledge " , " systematic working " , " can make conjectures " ; or , may refer to phases of work undertaken by pupils , e.g. " method " , " results " , " conclusion " , not all to mathematical processes or content . |
| 21 | Saying that someone is a doctor may refer to office , status , role , or all three together . |
| 22 | Degrees in such fields may include courses or options on the ‘ philosophy of ’ the field , and in a looser sense still , people may refer to any fundamental statements or questions in a field as ‘ philosophical ’ . |
| 23 | It may refer to a scaled down version of reality such as a model car , or to a form of symbolic representation such as a map . |
| 24 | In an isotropic medium ( in which the dielectric constant is a scalar not a tensor ) the directions of the E and D lines coincide , thus Figs. 2.40 and 2.41 may refer to either . |
| 25 | For example , a given pronoun may refer to an entity which is present in the context of situation rather than in the surrounding text . |
| 26 | You may refer to the possibly loaded nature of the judgement in 4 ( a ) to undermine confidence . |
| 27 | We may refer to the functions of manager , sales representative , typist , or industrial scientist , or for that matter fitter , as ‘ occupations ’ . |
| 28 | Osred was slain in 716 ‘ to the south of the border' ( ASC D , s.a. 716 ) , which may refer to a boundary with the Picts . |
| 29 | These may refer to technology such as computers , satellite TV , the multi-media approach within the context of open learning centres and independent studies , the whole area or foreign/second languages for special purposes and vocational training , testing and assessment . |
| 30 | She suggests that the design may refer to some kind of public performance or entertainment , especially as one example was excavated from the theatre at Verulamium . |