Example sentences of "reference to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is here that the Germans have done so much pioneer work , and indeed the whole tendency of their art historical studies has been to regard works of art almost entirely from a chronological point of view , as coefficients of a time sequence , without reference to their aesthetic significance . |
| 2 | In a different sort of context , what appears to be an abstract design , devoid of reference to the natural world , may in fact be a stylisation of a person , an animal or an imagined figure . |
| 3 | He too , dies the early death of romance — en poète , as the poet Burns put it with reference to his own fate — and his end is enveloped in the consequences of his supposing that he has lit upon some Chatterton manuscripts . |
| 4 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 5 | In The Facts he examines his own vexed state with reference to the vexed question of whether it is better to make things up , and to distort them , and by contemplating his earlier re-invention of the time-honoured dualistic account of literature and human nature . |
| 6 | In the article on his work which appeared in 1985 Levi is at one point examined with reference to Leviticus . |
| 7 | McAllister ( 1980 ) describes that political culture as traditionalist , and dominated by clientelism , parochialism , local attachment , and ascription : politicians were elected on the basis of local reputation and solely with reference to local issues . |
| 8 | He also criticised the reference to critical control points under which it said that : ‘ Food business operators shall identify any process undertaken which may be critical to ensuring food safety and ensure that adequate safety procedures are identified , maintained and reviewed . ’ |
| 9 | Apart from its assonantic association with the heavily symbolic ‘ parrot ’ ( discussed more fully above in reference to Skelton 's Speke , Parot ) , the name also reverberates with nuances from the French language . |
| 10 | The ‘ poire ’ or , in English , ‘ pear ’ is an obvious subliminal reference to the distinctive shape of the detective 's bald head . |
| 11 | With reference to the article in June on breaking dormancy in sweet peas : experiments conducted over a period of several years at New College , Pontefract certainly seem to bear out Anne Swithinbank 's remarks . |
| 12 | I have not been able to find any reference to pruning it , although I have cut out any dead wood found in the spring . |
| 13 | Despite reference to seed catalogues and gardening books , I have been unable to find any information on its propagation , either from seed or from cuttings . |
| 14 | Cameron now expected a glancing reference to Exodus 32 and a figuring of Aaron the idolator as the rebel and troublemaker who seduced the honest Israelites with the golden calf of dangerous principles . |
| 15 | ( The image actually appeared in a somewhat different way in The Favourite Game : ‘ Concerning the bodies Breavman lost … a man on the mountain , ’ a reference to the cemetery on Mont Royale probably . ) |
| 16 | In The Spice-Box Of Earth he has a particularly pointed reference to it : ‘ Night , my old night … |
| 17 | ( One of America 's leading Jungian psychologists , Dr Joseph L. Henderson , in Man And His Symbols , edited by Carl Jung , has made the connection — without reference to Leonard 's work , to be sure . |
| 18 | ( Another eisogetic blatancy occurs in Scobie 's reading into the poem ‘ Exodus ’ a reference to the Suez war . |
| 19 | It is unfortunate that the influential Dudek could only illustrate Leonard 's work by quoting from the admittedly despondent poem ‘ Rededication ’ , without a reference to the many other elements of positive delight that the book — and Leonard 's work elsewhere at that time — demonstrates . |
| 20 | ( Scobie correctly urges this background in prefacing his comments on Leonard 's work , but fails to mention , alongside Canada 's vastness , the particular Jewish motif by which all prophets found their calling ; similarly he omits reference to Leonard 's own ‘ wilderness experience ’ , on Hydra . ) |
| 21 | ( The reference to one escaping with ‘ Bach and the folk-singers ’ is to himself . ) |
| 22 | We find allusive reference to it from time to time in Leonard 's writings and songs — always with a frisson of awe . |
| 23 | Stephen Scobie , in emphasising the motif of sainthood in Leonard 's writing , completely omits reference to this key Jewish emphasis , which would have prevented him from some of his more questionable comments , such as the reference to them as ‘ social outcasts ’ . |
| 24 | Stephen Scobie , in emphasising the motif of sainthood in Leonard 's writing , completely omits reference to this key Jewish emphasis , which would have prevented him from some of his more questionable comments , such as the reference to them as ‘ social outcasts ’ . |
| 25 | The reductive instinct is to explain this by reference to the generalizing capacity of the mind . |
| 26 | The second response , that the difference consists solely and simply in a mode of knowledge of the external world , without invoking any internal and introspectible ‘ feel ’ , requires one to explain perceptual experiences with different modes of access without reference to a subjective component . |
| 27 | I conceive without reference to my dispositions . |
| 28 | It shows quite dramatically how difficult young children find the inhibition of reference to a salient object . |
| 29 | Unlike classical behaviourists , functionalists believe that is not possible to explain intelligent behaviour unless we make reference to processes that are taking place inside a person 's head . |
| 30 | However , the functionalist view is that it would be quite misguided to attempt to explain behaviour by making direct reference to the subjective or phenomenal qualities ( technically known as qualia ) of these mental states . |