Example sentences of "references to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 2 | The following is one of many references to him in the Society 's centenary history : Undoubtedly the activity of Mr E J D Abraham , with his fund-raising ability and flair for promoting the organisation , has led to much of our present security . |
| 3 | There are five references to him in the farewell discourses . |
| 4 | The battle of the gods in the Babylonian Genesis has no Old Testament equivalent , despite attempts by many scholars to discover underlying references to it in the text of Genesis 1:2 and other passages which speak of God 's power over the waters . |
| 5 | At the same time he thought it desirable to submit to them a brief record of his work ( Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 1899 , pp. 3–11 ) , in view of what were in his opinion the less than adequate references to it in the 1899 James Forrest lecture on ‘ Magnetism ’ by J. A. Ewing [ q.v. ] , in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers ( vol. cxxxviii , pp. 289–311 ) . |
| 6 | The problem which arises from this is that we are never given any inkling of the totality of a king 's estates , and there is a particular difficulty in trying to construct a picture of crown land by listing all references to it from the whole Merovingian period ; if kings rewarded their followers by conferring estates on them , even though the grant might not be hereditary , the pool of land must have changed constantly . |