Example sentences of "by referring [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One of the police officers responded by referring to the ‘ new manual ’ , parts of which were then read out in court . |
| 5 | The lines are positioned by referring to the CE or balance point of the rig . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By referring to the address , we select any flip-flop we choose . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Greer ( 1971 ) , for example , denounces psychology 's gender bias by referring to the discipline 's predominantly male practitioners . |
| 16 | This curve has interesting properties , which can be partly understood by referring to the geometry of the D structure . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For example , if any property has been lost or found in the rooms then by referring to the room history card it is possible to discover who was the occupant of the room at a certain date . |
| 19 | The force of this statement can be illustrated by referring to the two functions of certiorari . |
| 20 | To this end the workshop began by referring to the information leaflet which accompanied the workshop . |
| 21 | The same basic policy should be used for all " exceptions " : acknowledge the existence of alternatives , and encourage the habit of checking guesses by referring to the dictionary . |
| 22 | We can demonstrate this backward projection of the idea of the standard by referring to the influential work of E. J. Dobson on EModE pronunciation . |
| 23 | The commodification and rising class status of music hall song is more easily explained by referring to the penetration of culture by market relations than to the influence of musical literacy ; the increasingly extensive and homogeneous market demanded more songs more quickly than oral methods could supply . |
| 24 | I need not trouble your Lordships by referring to the authorities cited , since the analogy serves no purpose if one can not identify , as belonging to the plaintiffs , the documents of which production is desired . |
| 25 | Before turning to the precise terms of the statutory provisions I must set the scene by referring to the facts . |
| 26 | The presiding ‘ judge ’ begins by referring to the case ( he need not read it out if copies have been made available to the audience ) ; then he says : ‘ I call upon Mr/Miss X ’ ( the leading counsel for the appellant , who sits upon the judge 's left — that is to say , what the judge sees as his left ) . |
| 27 | It was as if I had committed a faux pas by referring to the singing . |
| 28 | Indeed , John breaks all the rules of Greek by referring to the Spirit ( a neuter word in Greek ) by the masculine pronoun . |
| 29 | It seems useful , therefore , to emphasize this difference by referring to the practice as budgetary accounting , while remembering that in the UK it does not have the same implications as in the USA . |
| 30 | This model has been contrasted with the clinical model by referring to the difference between them as the difference between a travel companion ( clinical ) and a travel agent ( administrative ) . |