Example sentences of "the [num ord] reference to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first reference to them was contained in the Annual Borrowing Report dated 4 January 1988 . |
| 2 | The year 1914 started off well enough , with golfing reports from the Ladies predominating , including the first reference to a course record . |
| 3 | This is the first reference to what was to become A Squadron , commanded by Paddy Mayne . |
| 4 | The first reference to John that can be traced is in Muirkirk Session records in which there is an entry — ‘ On 19th September , 1680 , it was delated to the Session that John Browne in Priesthill … ( and others ) … did not attend public ordinances . ’ |
| 5 | The first reference to the church of All Saints was in the early 12th century , and it seems to be the date when it was built . |
| 6 | The first reference to the young gentleman is found in Lord Keith 's private correspondence in October 1797 , when the admiral complained to his sister that he was ‘ plagued with Adam Ross . |
| 7 | The first reference to the local review committee of the Parole Board would normally take place three years before the expiry of the tariff period . |
| 8 | Under this procedure the prisoner could discover what his tariff was as set by the judges , by simply adding three years to the date of the first reference to the local review committee . |
| 9 | However , in this case only the first reference to any descriptor appears in an index , while all further linkages are made from record to record ( rather as in a chain of synonyms in a direct file ) . |
| 10 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 11 | His date of birth is not known , but the first reference to him at work is 1567–8 , and he may therefore have been born around 1540 . |
| 12 | The first reference to him appears in 1765 when he was employed by Thomas Jeffery , geographer to the king , to survey Bedfordshire with Thomas Donald . |
| 13 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |
| 14 | In 1694 he paid to Rith Young £34 : 0s. : 4d. , and to John Allam 11 and to Mr. Whinforth for " powder " £2 : 5s. : 9d. — this " powder " must surely be gunpowder , and if so , is the first reference to the use of explosives at the Coniston mines , heralding the first departure from the age-old , and honourable , methods of winning ore and breaking rock . |
| 15 | Much of the evidence for settlement colonisation is based on the first reference to a place in documents , but this can not now be accepted as a date for origin . |
| 16 | The first reference to Theodore in Gregory 's Histories concerns an unexplained alliance of the clergy of Marseilles and Dynamius , the patricius , or governor , of Provence , against the bishop in 581 . |
| 17 | The last reference to its use for paper production appears around the 1840s , following which it went out of use . |
| 18 | A local tombstone recording the death in 1806 of John Taylor , potter , is apparently the last reference to pot-making at Silkstone . |