Example sentences of "by referring [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gallwey describes the learning process in detail by referring to a ‘ Self 1 ’ and a ‘ Self 2 ’ . |
| 2 | The text pronounces that so far as the words are concerned no trust is created , but then goes on to give a moral reason for holding one to have been created ; it ends by referring to a similar decision of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 3 | In medical terminology the proembryo is often referred to as ‘ conceptus ’ , which , by referring to a past rather than a future event , has the additional advantage of neutrality . |
| 4 | It is often worth introducing the subject in a general way , by referring to a television programme or article you may have seen on AIDS . |
| 5 | These analytic shortfalls happen because , although associative initiatives address the ambiguities of subjective meanings , they often end up resolving them by referring to a concept of a unified subject . |
| 6 | They found that five-year-olds and nine-year-olds showed a tendency to respond to How can you tell that ? questions by referring to a cause rather than to evidence , though this tendency was less strong for their nine-year-olds than for their five-year-olds . |
| 7 | I can illustrate this by referring to a poem which was part of a racist leaflet circulated in Haringey during the 1987 election . |
| 8 | Traditionally this has been done by referring to a parts list and general assembly drawings , a long and tedious process . |
| 9 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 10 | The principle of waveform detection using motional voltage can be illustrated by referring to a three.phase variable.reluctance stepping motor with one-phase-on excitation . |
| 11 | Hon. Members could easily have been misled by referring to a previous Hansard which shows that a substantial number of ships are on order but fails to reflect the Government 's commitment to naval shipbuilding . |
| 12 | The USA justified the sale by referring to a need to maintain a balance of power between Taiwan and China after recent Russian sales of advanced Su 27 fighters to China . |
| 13 | He expanded this view by referring to a number of authorities , which could only be truly explained by saying that certain contracts have become part of " the accepted machinery of a type of transaction which is generally found acceptable and necessary ; so that instead of being regarded as restrictive they are accepted as part of the structure of a trading society " . |
| 14 | The storyteller explains her words by referring to the deaths of her father-in-law and husband , as well as the capture of the ark . |
| 15 | The need to build hypotheses into pattern-recognizing programs can best be illustrated by referring to the many programs that have been written to interpret line diagrams ( see Figure 12 ) . |
| 16 | Professor Crutzen illustrated these developments by referring to the individual and competing chemical roles of nitrogen oxides and CFCs with regard to stratospheric ozone depletion , particularly over the Antarctic . |
| 17 | One of the police officers responded by referring to the ‘ new manual ’ , parts of which were then read out in court . |
| 18 | The lines are positioned by referring to the CE or balance point of the rig . |
| 19 | When choosing a massage oil , you can , if you like , try to match your partner 's needs by referring to the therapeutic charts and other Aromatherapy information in Chapter 5 . |
| 20 | The company claimed that Mr Shove 's financial loss as a result of being deprived of private use of the car should be calculated by referring to the tax charge on it . |
| 21 | Hall no doubt attempted to justify his action , by referring to the meeting that he had with Lewis on 4th August , and although Palmerston said that he had checked with Lewis , there must have been some misunderstanding between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 22 | Ambassador Lipski had begun to complain to Göring that German newspapers like Der Stürmer and Der Gessilige from Pila were stirring up resentment against the Poles throughout the border districts by referring to the forcible separation of Danzig from the Reich , and by referring to the Polish Corridor as land ceded to Poland . |
| 23 | Ambassador Lipski had begun to complain to Göring that German newspapers like Der Stürmer and Der Gessilige from Pila were stirring up resentment against the Poles throughout the border districts by referring to the forcible separation of Danzig from the Reich , and by referring to the Polish Corridor as land ceded to Poland . |
| 24 | By referring to the address , we select any flip-flop we choose . |
| 25 | I have suggested that what Gandhi may be trying to point out by referring to the convertibility of the terms means and ends in his teaching is that our ideals not only inform the ends we aim at but also the means we employ to reach them . |
| 26 | In May 1898 , Lawrence Dicksee , then one of the more authoritative commentators on auditing , opened a lecture by referring to the ‘ grave and increasing responsibilities which are being cast upon auditors ’ . |
| 27 | This account , though it applies much more widely , is essentially the same as an explanation of these social phenomena which goes back at least to Hume , who accounted for ‘ the artificial virtues of chastity and modesty in women ’ by referring to the naturally greater disposition of males to protect children that they believe to be their own . |
| 28 | Greer ( 1971 ) , for example , denounces psychology 's gender bias by referring to the discipline 's predominantly male practitioners . |
| 29 | This curve has interesting properties , which can be partly understood by referring to the geometry of the D structure . |
| 30 | To illustrate how the inequalities which underlie such possession afflictions are always and necessarily relative ( rather than absolute ) , we may end this short list of examples by referring to the Santeria cult currently popular amongst Cuban refugees in mainland America . |