Example sentences of "[adv] referring to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title of Nigel Osborne 's serenade , Albanian Nights , while moist obviously referring to the disguises assumed by Ferrando and Guglielmo while testing their fiancées ' fidelity in Così fan tutte , is also a metaphorical allusion to our own relationship to the music of the past : ‘ We 've got to recognize that we come into Mozart 's world like characters in disguise : we 've all flown in airplanes , driven fast cars , eaten junk food — things he could n't even have imagined . |
| 2 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 3 | Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it . |
| 4 | He told a news conference after the meeting : ‘ We must all agree that there should be only one nuclear state ’ in the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , apparently referring to Russia , which holds about 17,000 nuclear warheads . |
| 5 | Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person . |
| 6 | When Richard Crossman described secrecy as the British disease , he was not merely referring to the terms of the Official Secrets Act . |
| 7 | He began to remark to others that he could not make the necessary synthesis , perhaps referring to a marriage of his romantic inclinations with the aim , inculcated in him by Colquhoun and MacBryde , to make it ‘ tight ’ , to achieve the kind of fully integrated compositional resolution often associated with classical art . |
| 8 | The first three kinds of honorific were clearly distinguished by Comrie ( 1976b ) , who pointed out that traditional descriptions have often confused ( i ) and ( ii ) : the distinction is that in ( i ) respect can only be conveyed by referring to the " target " of the respect , whereas in ( ii ) it can be conveyed without necessarily referring to the target . |
| 9 | Since you will be constantly referring to your picture for colour reference I would recommend keeping it under glass and just taping the sides very firmly to stop the flowers being damaged . |
| 10 | I said walkers should make a courtesy check with estates when doing a specific trek in Wester Ross , but I was only referring to the peak of the stalking period — mid-August to mid October — and not the whole year . , |
| 11 | P.S. I assume Tertje was only referring to players that have *left* Leeds in his time as a supporter when naming Cuntona as the most important person to have filled a Leeds shirt . |
| 12 | , he was only referring to his fear of Jack . |
| 13 | I detest the writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán who , unconsciously referring to the horse in ‘ Guernica ’ , asserts that Spanish museums , devoid of works of art , ‘ prefer the biggest donkey even if it is lame ’ ; and the sculptor Jorge Oteiza , champion of the Casón , who fears that his works will shrivel on contact with the bogeyman that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 14 | I 'm not just referring to the kind that Pinder indulged in , but trips to the bathroom , that sort of thing . |
| 15 | if they ever do discover who was responsible , and it 's not without the bounds of possibility , it 's going to cause an awful lot of red faces and I 'm not just referring to the villain himself . |
| 16 | I 'm just referring to the to the |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't recall her ever referring to you . ’ |
| 18 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
| 19 | ‘ I think , ’ I said , ‘ that we ( I was hopefully referring to others who might be recruited ) can do better than merely seeking charitable funds . ’ |
| 20 | When we talk about intelligence in horses , we are usually referring to how quickly they learn something . |
| 21 | Delightful phrases brighten his text , as ‘ midnight murkiness , ’ ‘ visionary gratification , ’ ‘ delightful dingle , darkened by a profusion of oak trees , ’ ‘ useless hills , ’ ‘ uncontaminated nature , ’ ‘ picturesque assemblages ’ ( usually referring to trees , cottages and weather ) ; such words held the secrets of appreciating the Lake District in all its forms . |
| 22 | There are , of course , occasional appreciative passages , usually referring to Dame Freya 's early books and giving a flavour of phoney objectivity to the whole unworthy enterprise … . |
| 23 | That 's right , erm , I can save it with the row on the other files , but the total is now on row twenty six , but this is still referring to the same cells , C twenty five . |
| 24 | Some people argue that it is very difficult to write without making use of masculine pronouns or words with a masculine connotation when they are also referring to women . |
| 25 | I wrote to tell him this , and also referring to another book he had sent me , and I received a reply dated 19 March 1937 : |
| 26 | ‘ Shear Dismay : For Bill Clinton , little things like a fancy haircut and a tempest in his travel office loom large , ’ said Time magazine , also referring to the uproar caused by the president 's sacking of the White House travel office and putting a distant cousin in charge . |
| 27 | Now whether you like it or not , and you 're not in our position , because we er prepared to manage this authority , you would have had that same reduction to find , and I did hear Councillor and he was also referring to capital spend the other day , saying he could have found ten million . |
| 28 | I entirely agree with this decision and with the passage cited but it is important to note that when Nolan J. spoke of the alternatives which ‘ must both be made available to the subject ’ he was , as I think , clearly referring to the alternative on the one hand of allowing the breath specimen to stand and on the other hand of exercising the right to have it replaced by a specimen of blood or urine in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 29 | I was surprised to hear him say that because he was clearly referring to economic and monetary union . |
| 30 | When eavesdropping ( a vicarious ghost-life he goes in for ) , he hears Raskolnikov tell Sonya about the crime , and later , without openly referring to it , the potential suicide twits the actual murderer : Sell , you can certainly do a lot . ’ |