Example sentences of "[art] reference to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you c you ca n't really read wh a book on this list about women 's and men , s language without finding the reference to Lakehoff in the back somewhere . |
| 2 | Her eyes widened , as though the reference to Eduardo was something physical like a blow , the fury quite gone out of her as she said , ‘ Why do you say that ? |
| 3 | The reference to Simon 's death had not brought accusations raining down on her head , Ashley reflected when her visitor had driven away . |
| 4 | The DTI objected to both the picture of Gazza and the reference to Armstrong 's suicide , saying that they were in bad taste . |
| 5 | For a reason not quite clear to her , Erika felt embarrassed , as if there were an irony in Karl 's words , especially the reference to Albania , which she felt she was not clever enough to understand . |
| 6 | Ian Rutherford 's beautiful , coloured photograph that she refers to was in the best possible taste and the reference to Gilbert and Sullivan could have caused offence only to someone with an inbuilt dislike to the two old stalwarts . |
| 7 | The reference to income tax at the basic rate not being charged in respect of income that has already borne tax at the basic rate is designed to ensure that there is no double taxation where the overseas entity receives income which has already borne UK tax . |
| 8 | As Poulter points out , this is in line with the modern ethos of concentrating on the broadly educational role of RE , which is underlined by the reference to RE instead of ‘ religious instruction ’ to which the 1944 Act referred previously . |
| 9 | In such cases it may be often difficult to say whether he is intended to be an arbitrator or to exercise some function other than that of an arbitrator. borderline cases identified above ( 15.7.7 ) , particularly the reference to experts of general disputes ( 6.9 ) . |
| 10 | Er the reference to surface water presumably that 's a reference to flooding and the the need to avoid areas at risk from flooding . |
| 11 | Erm I was interested to note the reference to day care in the area . |
| 12 | Paasio also stated that " the reference to Germany as a possible aggressor contained in the [ 1948 ] Treaty of Friendship , Co-operation and Mutual Assistance between Finland and the Soviet Union [ see p. 9228 ] reflects values … which no longer prevail " , although the essential content of the treaty " retains its significance " . |
| 13 | There is no straightforward coherence in this literature except in the use of the phrase ‘ sociology of knowledge ’ and in the reference to Mannheim 's work as a formative influence . |
| 14 | Although the reference to memory is not as direct as in the other questions it is clear that such decisions at the strategical level are based on memory in at least two separate ways . |
| 15 | Similarly , the reference to reactions in organic solvents merited further discussion . |
| 16 | The reference to literacy in this context is what induced Hildyard and Olson to quote Greenfield in their own work in order to support their conjectures about the consequence of literacy for such aspects of thought as ‘ abstractness ’ , ‘ logic ’ and ‘ embeddedness ’ . |
| 17 | Apart from the reference to Napoleon , the above quotation , to judge from the letters and verbal declarations we received , might have expressed , almost verbatim , the reaction of a contemporary reader to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail when it was published in 1982 . |
| 18 | The reference to justification , removed . |
| 19 | Indeed the reference to Sappho in the last stanza may seem to come out of nowhere ’ [ Landry , 84 ] . |
| 20 | The reference to Death on a pale horse in the Apocalypse , and the shoemaker ? |
| 21 | The Unionists accepted that this was unsatisfactory and after the deletion of the reference to Deanfield Hegarty 's motion was passed unanimously . |
| 22 | The reference to Section 5(1) is to the power which the Act gives the Secretary of State to approve all qualifications granted by outside bodies and arising from courses of study pursued by pupils of compulsory school age in maintained schools . |
| 23 | They will say : ‘ From this time forward under God ( the reference to God is optional ) I pledge my loyalty to Australia and its people , whose democratic beliefs I share , whose rights and liberties I respect , and whose laws I will uphold and obey . ’ |
| 24 | And also , of course , the reference to Orpheus , a figure who clearly haunted Milton 's imagination as that of the poet of enormous power but somehow also the natural victim . |
| 25 | Joe had gauged that the ‘ he ’ she referred to was the uncle and the reference to Pitman 's shorthand brought his eyes to Mick and his face ready to go into a grin ; but something in Mick 's expression checked it and he listened to him saying , ‘ She 's a bright lass , is Carrie . ’ |
| 26 | The reference to Newcomen engines disappearing underground is puzzling and perhaps Professor Hoskins misunderstood their function . |
| 27 | The large , well-known company possesses ‘ expertise ’ and can be ‘ trusted ’ , while the reference to employment of a chemist reveals that the small company lacking the attributes of wealth and competence is less able to comply , and implicitly untrustworthy . |
| 28 | Corbett caught the reference to medicine . |
| 29 | David Lloyd Jones at the DES was shown a draft of the letter and objected to the reference to amalgamation , as ‘ precipitating certain apprehensions ’ . |
| 30 | He laughed his big , round , comfortable but oddly high-pitched laugh : his inoffensive laugh , defusing the reference to Liz : the soul of tact , as ever , Brian : ‘ I 'm at Liz 's , Alix would come . |