Example sentences of "by referring [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if I had committed a faux pas by referring to the singing . |
| 2 | It is recognised that there is no easy response to be made by referring to the independence of Religious Education in Catholic schools . |
| 3 | I need not trouble your Lordships by referring to the authorities cited , since the analogy serves no purpose if one can not identify , as belonging to the plaintiffs , the documents of which production is desired . |
| 4 | The presiding ‘ judge ’ begins by referring to the case ( he need not read it out if copies have been made available to the audience ) ; then he says : ‘ I call upon Mr/Miss X ’ ( the leading counsel for the appellant , who sits upon the judge 's left — that is to say , what the judge sees as his left ) . |
| 5 | Professor Crutzen illustrated these developments by referring to the individual and competing chemical roles of nitrogen oxides and CFCs with regard to stratospheric ozone depletion , particularly over the Antarctic . |
| 6 | To illustrate how the inequalities which underlie such possession afflictions are always and necessarily relative ( rather than absolute ) , we may end this short list of examples by referring to the Santeria cult currently popular amongst Cuban refugees in mainland America . |
| 7 | Indeed , John breaks all the rules of Greek by referring to the Spirit ( a neuter word in Greek ) by the masculine pronoun . |
| 8 | This curve has interesting properties , which can be partly understood by referring to the geometry of the D structure . |
| 9 | By referring to the address , we select any flip-flop we choose . |
| 10 | Greer ( 1971 ) , for example , denounces psychology 's gender bias by referring to the discipline 's predominantly male practitioners . |
| 11 | Before turning to the precise terms of the statutory provisions I must set the scene by referring to the facts . |
| 12 | For example , if any property has been lost or found in the rooms then by referring to the room history card it is possible to discover who was the occupant of the room at a certain date . |
| 13 | To this end the workshop began by referring to the information leaflet which accompanied the workshop . |
| 14 | The lines are positioned by referring to the CE or balance point of the rig . |
| 15 | The storyteller explains her words by referring to the deaths of her father-in-law and husband , as well as the capture of the ark . |
| 16 | It is with sadness that I begin my statement this year by referring to the loss of an inspirational founder member of RIBA Companies Ltd . |
| 17 | This model has been contrasted with the clinical model by referring to the difference between them as the difference between a travel companion ( clinical ) and a travel agent ( administrative ) . |
| 18 | The same basic policy should be used for all " exceptions " : acknowledge the existence of alternatives , and encourage the habit of checking guesses by referring to the dictionary . |
| 19 | I have suggested that what Gandhi may be trying to point out by referring to the convertibility of the terms means and ends in his teaching is that our ideals not only inform the ends we aim at but also the means we employ to reach them . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world . |
| 21 | It seems useful , therefore , to emphasize this difference by referring to the practice as budgetary accounting , while remembering that in the UK it does not have the same implications as in the USA . |
| 22 | Hall no doubt attempted to justify his action , by referring to the meeting that he had with Lewis on 4th August , and although Palmerston said that he had checked with Lewis , there must have been some misunderstanding between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 23 | The most unfortunate aspect of this use of the term ‘ competition ’ is of course that , by referring to the situation in which no room remains for further steps in the competitive market process , the word has come to be understood as the very opposite of the kind of activity of which that process consists . |
| 24 | The company claimed that Mr Shove 's financial loss as a result of being deprived of private use of the car should be calculated by referring to the tax charge on it . |
| 25 | The commodification and rising class status of music hall song is more easily explained by referring to the penetration of culture by market relations than to the influence of musical literacy ; the increasingly extensive and homogeneous market demanded more songs more quickly than oral methods could supply . |