Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] reference to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strength of Gloucester 's hold on the duchy connection can not , however , be explained only by reference to the situation within the duchy itself . |
| 2 | The strength of Gloucester 's hold on the duchy connection can not , however , be explained only by reference to the situation within the duchy itself . |
| 3 | The determination by the material base having been displaced , the form of ideology ( distortion ) can no longer be explained merely by reference to contradictions in the material base although Habermas incorporates Marx 's critique of the commodity form of labour as ideology ( Habermas 1972 : 59 ) . |
| 4 | The decision about whether and when to intervene in unhappy families can not be resolved simply by reference to psychological theories , nor can it be based on folk precepts about not interfering . |
| 5 | Each main class is revised individually without reference to any other class . |
| 6 | Some matters are no doubt decided only by reference to their intrinsic merits , others on purely political grounds . |
| 7 | The mood of deregulation is tempered only by reference to the need to assure the public of the competence of providers of legal services . |
| 8 | The number and extent of the obligations can be ascertained only by reference to the terms expressly agreed in the contract and to those extra terms which the law automatically implied into it . |
| 9 | Questions about the distribution and change of power can be answered objectively by reference to a model of power relationships , which also has implications for the rational choice of foreign policies . |
| 10 | The choice between the two roads can not , in my opinion , be made simply by reference to binding authority . |
| 11 | An excellent overview of organisational communication research written specifically with reference to the external organisational environment appears in a valuable compendium Handbook of organizational communication — a volume that in this context I am not ashamed to admit that I came across just by chance in a bookshop whilst looking for something completely different ! |
| 12 | In languages with honorifics , honorific concord can thus become an intricate aspect of morphology , which can not always be treated formally without reference to the socially deictic values of particular morphemes . |
| 13 | A syntactically deviant sentence can be interpreted only by reference to a non-deviant sentence : a speaker , in other words , is not free to create his own grammar . |
| 14 | It was suggested in the foregoing discussion that the laxity of the duty of care can be explained partly by reference to the confidence of the courts , at least historically , in the effectiveness of shareholder control . |
| 15 | It does mean , however , that each chapter has to be judged on its individual merits or — putting the matter more positively — that each can be digested successfully without reference to its companions . |
| 16 | However , the way in which the theories relate to the overall transition sequence is generally to be understood only by reference to the experimental observations . |
| 17 | It was not cluttered up with redundant ‘ survivals ’ , to be understood retrospectively by reference to assumed evolutionary historical stages . |
| 18 | However , the nature of the state 's action can not be understood solely by reference to what happens outside the state . |
| 19 | But all of these developments can not be explained solely by reference to what goes on inside ‘ Fleet Street ’ . |
| 20 | This finding that the interpretation of surface anaphors is not determined solely by a representation of the superficial aspects of the preceding text prompts the corresponding question : are deep anaphors interpreted only with reference to a mental model ? |
| 21 | The value of this idea can really be judged only by reference to the value of the whole explanatory framework of ‘ indefinite ’ science , at whose basis it lies . |
| 22 | Such a statement is analytic , whereas the truth of synthetic statements can be judged only by reference to facts of the world . |
| 23 | However , neither the policy nor practice of the community placements of mentally handicapped people can develop intelligently without reference to the store of accumulated experience from local authority social services ' department records ; or the perspectives of the people who have been placed within unstaffed , community based housing . |
| 24 | Grading is a method of achieving a shorthand synthesis of every possible quality that one might wish to be included in a profile , consolidated into a symbol which examiners understand pragmatically with reference to a platonic point of reference existing in the minds of a group of examiners who have worked together , while a profile , however detailed , can never be more than an attempt to put down all those qualities . |
| 25 | When the political and economic imagination is confronted by the economic success of an example which is in many respects an alternative to those Pacific cases , typified here by reference to Sweden , the implicit choices really do become quite evident . |
| 26 | It is suggested , however , that corporate power can not be legitimated merely by reference to the rights cited by Hessen . |
| 27 | Far from meeting the equivalence criterion , these alternations express differences in focus which can be explicated only with reference to the discourse matrix in which they are embedded ; furthermore , they do not have a systematic social distribution in the speech community . |
| 28 | In a developed legal system the rules of recognition are of course more complex ; instead of identifying rules exclusively by reference to a text or list they do so by reference to some general characteristic possessed by the primary rules . |
| 29 | These will be discussed only with reference to pavements of the main sample . |
| 30 | It should be noted , however , that the problems discussed above with reference to phoneme recognition apply to other units such as syllables as well . |