Example sentences of "they refer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The events they referred to can be verified from other sources : the battles of Kawz and Hawaria also appear in Graziani 's work , for example , and are thus authenticated ( Graziani , 1932 ) . |
| 2 | Both were scathing about the failures of state socialism in the DDR which they referred to as ‘ the Russian system ’ . |
| 3 | They referred to a statement allegedly made by one of the accused that they were to receive payment from Mrs Mandela once the murder had been carried out . |
| 4 | The non-associative nature of the phenomenon was emphasized by Gibson and Gibson ( 1955 ) , who made a firm distinction between their own account and the associative interpretation , which they referred to as ‘ enrichment ’ . |
| 5 | The latter had a less favourable nickname for the SAS , whom they referred to as the ‘ Parashites ’ for a while . |
| 6 | The men who ruled India were aware that what they referred to as their prestige would in the end by compromised by too obvious a reliance on resort to arms . |
| 7 | They referred to him as ‘ David ’ and emphasised that he had to catch a plane back to London at midnight . |
| 8 | If the house they referred to , thought Rufus , had been Wyvis Hall , why had they not said so ? |
| 9 | For a long time she had thought they referred to a mother and a female baby bear . |
| 10 | The skill lay in selecting them , so that the others would find it hard to guess the date and what they referred to . |
| 11 | They referred to the masculine as ‘ the worthier gender ’ , asserting that as the male is superior in nature , so this should be mirrored in grammar . |
| 12 | Katrine never saw the pusher but they referred to him as ‘ Baffetti ’ . |
| 13 | One of the problems which Lloyd and Beveridge ( 1981 ) identified as giving rise to poor performance on the part of young receivers of messages was the phenomenon they referred to as ‘ premature selection ’ . |
| 14 | They referred to Sutton as ‘ the soft school ’ and had a general view of Sutton pupils as ‘ backward ’ . |
| 15 | It is true that in rejecting the [ applicants ' ] daughters they referred to and relied upon their admission criteria but in my judgment they were entitled to use those criteria to decide priorities pursuant to section 6(3) ( a ) . |
| 16 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 17 | My mother softened at once at the words ‘ Do you remember … ? ’ when they referred to her youth and not to her knowledge . |
| 18 | They referred to the ‘ traditional restraint , from which all other branches of inquiry have long been emancipated ’ : ecclesiastical interests and party predilections , which meant that theology ‘ fails to receive the intellectual respect and confidence which are readily accorded to learning and research in any other field ’ . |
| 19 | They were talking in Spanish again so that I could n't follow what was said , only the gist of it , and that largely from the names they referred to : Iris Sunderby 's , of course , her grandfather , too , and the Connors , Sheila Connor in particular , and there was constant repetition of the name Rosalli Gabrielli . |
| 20 | They referred to the opinion of the Indian Foreign Minister that ‘ the Soviet initiative deserved the most fixed and serious attention ’ . |
| 21 | Just drag them and drop them — the formulae will still refer to the cells they referred to previously . |
| 22 | They referred to his dependency upon the Black vote ( as though the Democratic Party itself could win anything without the Black vote , and as though Alaska and Vermont were strongholds of Black populations rather than white snow ) . |
| 23 | They referred to ‘ equality of opportunity ’ tout court or of the waste of talent . |
| 24 | My final point , is that , and we have had it raised this morning , erm from er I think it was consultants on behalf of the C P R E that there was sufficient capacity within Greater York , and they referred to a table in their and their submission . |
| 25 | These " Whiggish Jacobites " , as they referred to themselves , produced a number of pamphlets in which they argued that William , through various acts of despotism , had broken the contract he had made with the nation in 1689 , and thus forfeited his right to obedience . |
| 26 | They referred to prophets of gloom , seemingly incapable of recognising how much the region has progressed in the last 13 years . |
| 27 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
| 28 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 29 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 30 | What did they refer to ? |