Example sentences of "[prep] refer to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Merriman , after referring to a number of authorities said [ 1959 ] 1 W.L.R. 587 , 606–607 : |
| 2 | After referring to a section of the relevant Customs Act which was said to give an importer an opportunity to obtain his goods without making an irrevocable payment of the duty claimed O'Connor J. continued , at p. 277 : |
| 3 | The bank 's card record of the meeting with Mr. Colin Perry on 9 March 1983 states , after referring to a possible mortgage facility of up to £5,000 : ‘ and we have told him that we would be pleased to consider this but would require security , probably in the form of a second mortgage over his house . |
| 4 | After referring to a number of authorities , none of which , as he said , were ‘ quite on the point , ’ although the Canadian decision of Malette v. Shulman ( 1990 ) 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 ; [ 1991 ] 2 Med . |
| 5 | The first , after referring to a ‘ health and fire hazard ’ , continues : ‘ It is difficult to see how you can properly carry out your duties as a university teacher , given the state of your room . ’ |
| 6 | After referring to the possibility of delay when the Convention was used , and the impact of Article 23 reservations , the court held that the interest of the German Federal Republic in the integrity of its judicial rights was ‘ less compelling in this instance than , for example , where a non-party witness is sought for deposition or where the scope of discovery sought involves more intrusive methods ’ . |
| 7 | After referring to the ability of partners to sue for a libel on their firm he said , at pp. 145 , 146–147 , 148 : |
| 8 | Earlier the judge , after referring to the rule that money paid under mistake of law is irrecoverable had said , at p. 745 : |
| 9 | Delivering the leading judgment , Stephen Brown L.J. , after referring to the provisions of section 7(4) , said , at p. 287 : |
| 10 | Suffice it to say that , after referring to the ‘ extraordinary , and perhaps unique , jurisdiction of the Visitors to the Inns of Court , ’ he found that the judges possessed a residual jurisdiction by which , in an exceptional case , they might remit a matter to an Inn and direct it to reconsider , with the Inns ' Council and the Bar Council , what ought to be the criteria by which they should judge the question before it determined the application afresh . |
| 11 | After referring to the action it continues : |
| 12 | Another member , after referring to the particular reference in the Financial Secretary 's statement to airline and railway employees , asked whether the same distinction applied to services provided by hotel companies to their employees — that is , to rooms which are freely available for the general public in hotels being offered at a concessionary rate to employees of the hotel group . |
| 13 | And we described what we were going to do on this walk and where we were going to go and both sort of referred to the same composition and there was a prize for the for the one that was judged the best . |
| 14 | ‘ The actual decision in the Manchester Corporation case can perhaps be supported , as Mr. Waterhouse suggested , on the argument that the libel there was not capable of referring to a corporation consisting ( as the plaintiffs did ) of the mayor , aldermen and citizens , and not , as here , of the chairman and councillors . |
| 15 | Writers about midlife are fond of referring to the empty nest syndrome , much to the annoyance of feminists , who deplore the notion that women need children to bolster their sense of self-worth . |
| 16 | ‘ Uncircumcised men ’ is another way of referring to the non-Jewishness of the Gentiles . |
| 17 | ‘ Every Jewish king of the House of David was known as Messiah , or Christ , and a regular way of referring to the High Priest was ‘ the Priest Messiah ’ … ’ |
| 18 | James 's partiality for elegant variation ( 69 ) is well illustrated in the passage , particularly in the way he varies the manner of referring to the three characters . |
| 19 | In prose writing , the discrepancy between identity of meaning and identity of sense is well exemplified in the device of so-called elegant variation : we have already noted , for instance p107 ) , Henry James 's use of non-synonymous expressions : " the poor young man " , " this personage " , etc , as ways of referring to the same person . |
| 20 | The American usage of referring to the parts as courses and the whole as the programme seems to be gaining ground here . |
| 21 | The difference is that ‘ My Lord ’ is the mode of addressing a judge in the vocative case , while ‘ Your lordship ’ is the mode of referring to the judge in the course of a sentence , i.e . |
| 22 | However , as Fillmore ( 1975 ) notes , these have two kinds of referent : they can either refer to the entire span itself , as in ( 56 ) , or to a point within the relevant span , as in ( 57 ) : ( 56 ) Tomorrow is Wednesday ( 57 ) Dennis hit Murphy with a baseball bat yesterday Note that the deictic words yesterday , today and tomorrow pre-empt the calendrical or absolute ways of referring to the relevant days . |
| 23 | I have deliberately refrained from referring to the movement as a ‘ pre-feed ’ roll , as it is commonly termed . |
| 24 | Last week , Virgin said it was ready to settle if BA dropped a clause forbidding it from referring to the matter in future . |
| 25 | There is no contradiction in terms in referring to a ‘ slow revolution ’ , as Otto Bauer did , or to a peaceful and democratic revolution , as many socialists have done . |
| 26 | Philip Roth 's article refers to this issue in referring to the later book If not now , when ? — Levi 's ‘ Eastern ’ , an adventure story of Jewish partisans during the closing months of the war , led by the Communist fighter-fiddler Gedaleh . |
| 27 | The official National Council resolution ‘ deeply deploring ’ the Anglo Catholics ' language and their audacity in referring to the Reformation as a ‘ flagrant wrong ’ , resolved that such behaviour was inconsistent with ‘ the letter and … spirit of their contract with the State ’ . |
| 28 | IN referring to the Chilean Order of Merit awarded to Mr Harold Pinter , Mandrake ( March 29 ) stated that this is the first time the honour has been bestowed upon a playwright or , indeed , upon an ‘ intellectual ’ of any description . |
| 29 | In referring to the Kingdom the Old Testament spoke in such terms as ‘ Behold , the days are coming ’ . |
| 30 | From our discussion of the spatio-temporal co-ordinates which seem , in principle , peculiarly accessible to standard specification , it must be obvious first , that deictic expressions may retain a standard deictic centre but must be interpreted with respect to the content of the utterance in which they occur and , second , that the relevant standard temporal description of an utterance , for instance 9.22 a.m. on Tuesday 28 June 1873 , as opposed to in the late nineteenth century , will vary depending on the knowledge and intention of the analyst ( or speaker ) in referring to the utterance as located in time . |