Example sentences of "'s reference to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This author was Lewis Henry Morgan , and Marx 's reference to him in such a letter shows how his concern with anthropology was becoming central . |
| 2 | Leapor 's reference to the fly is a signal that she is arguing against Pope 's epistle . |
| 3 | He 'd heard quite clearly Evans 's reference to his inside track with the Kriminalpolizei at Wiesbaden , to Kurt Meyer 's treachery . |
| 4 | The player would keep the pipes in place by settling his chin into his collar , hence CD 's reference to Podsnaps 's ‘ setting his obstinate head in his cravat and shirt-collar ’ . |
| 5 | CD 's reference to his succeeding the experimental philosophical pig who had died from ‘ taking a bath at too high a temperature ’ , and thus falling a victim ‘ to his thirst for knowledge ’ is a jocose allusion to Pliny 's death during the eruption of Vesuvius , which he was trying to study at close quarters . |
| 6 | This is in spite of the text 's reference to an ‘ earlier will ’ , for there is no other will . |
| 7 | Leith 's prose is as emotionally loaded as he can make it — Darwin himself ‘ confessed ’ that imagining the eye to have evolved was almost absurd ( Leith of course makes no mention of Darwin 's reference to the sequence of eyes from very imperfect to almost human in invertebrates ) . |
| 8 | Bukharin 's reference to the level of wages paid in Dept . |
| 9 | How else do we explain Bukharin 's reference to Lenin 's urgent call for a reorganisation of the Commissariat of Workers and Peasants inspection ? |
| 10 | Given Bukharin 's reference to disproportionality it was not surprising that he should refer to Marx 's schemata of reproduction . |
| 11 | Gandhi 's reference to people being allowed to follow their own desires , provided they were old enough to know what they were doing and were not subjected to force or material inducements , is an indication of the dubious conversion methods employed by some missionaries . |
| 12 | Something else I am puzzled by is Gibson 's reference to the 6-string bass 's ‘ customary ’ BEADGC tuning . |
| 13 | Latterly , however , she became a powerful spirit and practitioner of witchcraft , witness Shakespeare 's Macbeth 's reference to her as a ‘ secret , black and midnight hag ’ . |
| 14 | The Revenue 's reference to s 84(1) , ICTA 1988 appears to be entirely irrelevant , as this section refers to ‘ gifts to educational establishments ’ . |
| 15 | Of course the Latin fathers not only had St Paul 's reference to Christ as the propitiation ( with its notions of appeasement ) for sins , 5 they also had the whole history and logic of the Old Testament to draw on . |
| 16 | Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant . |
| 17 | This makes Stark 's reference to ideology as ‘ prejudice-begotten thought ’ clearly not a reference to Marx 's own writing . |
| 18 | TNC does not help here , by talking of ‘ a modern foreign language ’ ; and one 's fears of too narrow an approach seem confirmed by the Bill 's reference to ‘ a modern foreign language specified in an order of the Secretary of State ’ . |
| 19 | Matza 's reference to deviance being ‘ vital ’ for society relates to an idea , borrowed from Durkheim , that was popular with the ‘ new deviance ’ writers and has played an important part in academic thinking about crime and deviance generally . |
| 20 | These are not just minor counter examples that prove the rule , as Olson 's reference to the personal nature of letters attempts to suggest : they are what literacy is . |
| 21 | The Chief Justice 's reference to the lack of an equal footing was , in my view , to the fact that the defendant was in a position to force the plaintiff to comply with the lawful demand if he wished to obtain the necessary licence to continue to trade , and not simply to the fact that the defendant held an official position whereas the plaintiff did not . |
| 22 | Nolan J. 's reference to ‘ duress on the part of the revenue ’ is important because the duress with which the law is concerned is that exerted by the defendant and not that exerted by extraneous circumstances such as general commercial considerations . |
| 23 | May L.J. , at p. 41 , refers to a submission made by counsel for the prosecution that Nolan J. 's reference to ‘ the alternatives ’ was a reference to a choice between breath on the one hand and blood or urine on the other hand and not to a choice between blood and urine . |
| 24 | It may be said that the Financial Secretary 's reference to the taxpayers being liable to tax as under the pre-existing law ( i.e. , under the Finance Act 1948 , section 39 as re-enacted by the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 ) shows that he was saying that the position was unchanged : nothing the Minister said could effect the proper construction of legislation already on the statute book . |
| 25 | I do not think that this question was resolved in Thomas by what was said by Lord Griffiths though Lord Ackner 's reference to judicial review is in general terms . |
| 26 | No , not entirely , Alice thought , remembering Jules 's reference to the gossip that had circulated among the staff at the salon . |
| 27 | GODALMING CRICKET 225 NOT OUT — Unusually broad-based survey of cricket in an area rich in history , taking as its start G. B. Buckley 's reference to matches in 1767 . |
| 28 | Even Adomnán 's reference to ‘ strangers ’ holding sway among the Dalriadic Scots can not be construed as a reference to the agents of King Oswiu ( or Ecgfrith ) because these strangers are represented as oppressing Dál Riata from c . |
| 29 | Bede 's reference to it in the context of the situation in 731 could suggest , on balance , that it was concluded when Ceolwulf became king or very soon after . |
| 30 | Suzanne Moore rightly condemns Judge Rant 's reference to ‘ brute homosexual activity ’ , but she still reserves the right to consider other people 's consensual sexual choices distasteful and disgusting , even while rejecting the idea of criminalising them . |