Example sentences of "[verb] referred to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made the meeting with the woman , whom she had often heard referred to but whom she remembered meeting only once briefly in New York less daunting . |
| 2 | She had been at one of the best State schools in England , where she would still be , no doubt , but for what Toby had heard referred to as an Incident . |
| 3 | By that time the embanked railway line — now the District Line — had bisected the ‘ Back Common ’ of Turnham Green , and the area left north of the railway gradually became referred to as Acton Green . |
| 4 | The key features review referred to above is devised to identify potential deal breaking problems at an early stage , so as to limit the possibility of Big accumulating large professional fees on ultimately abortive deals . |
| 5 | ‘ The particulars we had been given referred to an estate of 680 acres having four cottages and a stone house … |
| 6 | Crews has referred to ‘ a self-congratulatory hermeticism whose purpose seems to lie somewhere between the dropping of names , the displaying of tidbits of esoterica , and the muddling of agency ’ , and Tallis has written a cruel parody of Hartman 's prose . |
| 7 | Williams has referred to ‘ a conception of literature as a series of authors to whom there must , must be ‘ personal evaluative response' ’ or its available facsimile . ’ |
| 8 | He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt . |
| 9 | It has referred to ‘ the stopping or hindering ’ of deprivation and neglect , admission to care , appearance before the courts , family breakdown and child abuse . |
| 10 | Genscher has referred to Germany 's ‘ mission ’ to foster peace in Europe and has said very frankly that , ‘ We Germans can be the architects of a united and indivisible Europe ’ . |
| 11 | One commentator has referred to the ‘ atavism ’ of pretending that Germany is a federation of states . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State for Education and Science has referred to LEAs ' and schools ' ‘ important responsibility to work towards the promotion of equality of opportunity for the different ethnic groups who are part of our national life ’ . |
| 13 | It is significant that most comment on the issue has referred to the ‘ severely ’ or ‘ grossly ’ handicapped babies , rather than just mentally or physically handicapped babies . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | The worst offenders are almost always Councils controlled by extreme left factions engaged in what the present Chairman of the Conservative Party , Christopher Patten , has referred to as ‘ bleeding-stump politics ’ . |
| 16 | Marion Dawkins has referred to suffering as ‘ involving unpleasant subjective feeling ’ . |
| 17 | David Sole has accused the Englishman of using illegal scrummaging the techniques , whilst Jeff Probyn has referred to the Scotsman 's method of tripping his opponents . |
| 18 | Bad harvests , meanwhile , had once again forced wheat up to famine prices , and the ‘ outbreak of peace ’ after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was to herald what C. P. Hill has referred to as ‘ one of the grimmest periods in modern British History ’ . |
| 19 | Learners who live in what Krashen has referred to as ‘ acquisition-rich ’ environments and take advantage of such settings to use their communicative skills in the L2 , also need opportunities to focus on the functional properties of the language and attend to form . |
| 20 | This is why one philosopher deeply influenced by AI has referred to ‘ the primacy of non-communicative language ’ ( Sloman 1979 ) . |
| 21 | Junior health minister Tim Yeo has referred to clients and assessors drawing up a ‘ wish list ’ , ‘ without any thought for resources or priorities ’ . |
| 22 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
| 23 | It is what John Triseliotis has referred to as ‘ a family for life , with its network of support systems not only for them but also for their future children ’ . |
| 24 | Indeed , only one unpublished study has referred to the activities of this group and the concern with which the Board of Deputies of British Jews viewed it . |
| 25 | Director Joel Schumacher has referred to his tale of love and death as an AIDS-era movie but the coyness of using a ‘ safe ’ illness like leukaemia as a metaphor for the terrors of AIDS is just another example of Hollywood 's penchant for skirting the issues . |
| 26 | More recently , another French writer , Roland Barthes , has referred to the " transparency of classical writing , and has postulated a mode of " writing at degree zero " , which , " initiated by Camus 's Outsider , achieves a style of absence which is almost an ideal absence of style " . |
| 27 | Pahl ( 1984 : 314 ) has referred to a situation in which : |
| 28 | Ergas ( 1987 ) has referred to this as a ‘ deepening ’ model of technological development , in which ‘ learning by doing ’ and making the best organizational and technical use of ‘ what you 've got ’ are far more important than acquiring the latest ‘ state of the art ’ process technology ( Ewer et al. , 1987 : ch. 4 ) . |
| 29 | Moscovici has referred to the second process by which social representations are produced as objectification . |
| 30 | Isabel Emmett has referred to the formal and informal mechanisms of selection as the ‘ social filter in the leisure field ’ , allowing different groups access to different facilities , more or less easily . |