Example sentences of "[prep] refer to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Merriman , after referring to a number of authorities said [ 1959 ] 1 W.L.R. 587 , 606–607 : |
| 2 | After referring to a number of authorities , none of which , as he said , were ‘ quite on the point , ’ although the Canadian decision of Malette v. Shulman ( 1990 ) 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 ; [ 1991 ] 2 Med . |
| 3 | After referring to a section of the relevant Customs Act which was said to give an importer an opportunity to obtain his goods without making an irrevocable payment of the duty claimed O'Connor J. continued , at p. 277 : |
| 4 | After referring to the possibility of delay when the Convention was used , and the impact of Article 23 reservations , the court held that the interest of the German Federal Republic in the integrity of its judicial rights was ‘ less compelling in this instance than , for example , where a non-party witness is sought for deposition or where the scope of discovery sought involves more intrusive methods ’ . |
| 5 | After referring to the ability of partners to sue for a libel on their firm he said , at pp. 145 , 146–147 , 148 : |
| 6 | Earlier the judge , after referring to the rule that money paid under mistake of law is irrecoverable had said , at p. 745 : |
| 7 | After referring to the action it continues : |
| 8 | ‘ The actual decision in the Manchester Corporation case can perhaps be supported , as Mr. Waterhouse suggested , on the argument that the libel there was not capable of referring to a corporation consisting ( as the plaintiffs did ) of the mayor , aldermen and citizens , and not , as here , of the chairman and councillors . |
| 9 | The difference is that ‘ My Lord ’ is the mode of addressing a judge in the vocative case , while ‘ Your lordship ’ is the mode of referring to the judge in the course of a sentence , i.e . |
| 10 | ‘ Uncircumcised men ’ is another way of referring to the non-Jewishness of the Gentiles . |
| 11 | I have deliberately refrained from referring to the movement as a ‘ pre-feed ’ roll , as it is commonly termed . |
| 12 | Last week , Virgin said it was ready to settle if BA dropped a clause forbidding it from referring to the matter in future . |
| 13 | Although , in referring to the possibility that serfdom might " abolish itself from below " , the tsar seemed to be responding to the rural disturbances which had resulted from Nicholas 's militia creations , in all probability he simply lifted the phrase from a Third Department report of 1839 whose purpose , though reformist , had hardly been the complete transformation of government policy . |
| 14 | In referring to the Queen as prosecutor in the course of a case one speaks not of ‘ the Queen ’ but ‘ the Crown . ’ |
| 15 | From our discussion of the spatio-temporal co-ordinates which seem , in principle , peculiarly accessible to standard specification , it must be obvious first , that deictic expressions may retain a standard deictic centre but must be interpreted with respect to the content of the utterance in which they occur and , second , that the relevant standard temporal description of an utterance , for instance 9.22 a.m. on Tuesday 28 June 1873 , as opposed to in the late nineteenth century , will vary depending on the knowledge and intention of the analyst ( or speaker ) in referring to the utterance as located in time . |
| 16 | The official National Council resolution ‘ deeply deploring ’ the Anglo Catholics ' language and their audacity in referring to the Reformation as a ‘ flagrant wrong ’ , resolved that such behaviour was inconsistent with ‘ the letter and … spirit of their contract with the State ’ . |
| 17 | At an April 18 press conference in London , Hamdi declined to describe the crisis as a " famine " — a point of contention with donor countries — but he did go further than previous official statements in referring to the need for emergency aid and saying that the UN World Food Programme had a free mandate to organize the operation . |
| 18 | In referring to the Kingdom the Old Testament spoke in such terms as ‘ Behold , the days are coming ’ . |
| 19 | SPAR uses a variant of Crain & Steedman 's ( 1985 ) ‘ principle of referential success ’ , which states that a reading that succeeds in referring to an entity already established in the hearer 's model of the domain of discourse is favoured over one that does not . |
| 20 | Before referring to the manner in which the judge dealt with this question it is convenient to refer to some of the provisions of the security documents . |
| 21 | For example , having gone straight ahead without referring to the chart gallery I created the default Pie Chart and was dissatisfied because I could find no way of exploding one of the slices . |
| 22 | Do tell me all about it ! ’ she begged ; and Breeze enlightened her as far as she could , without referring to the business of the wallet . |
| 23 | Thus I can say this morning either during the morning or the afternoon , and refer to the same span ; whereas in Chinantec , I must use a different word for referring to the morning in the morning ( i.e. when the span includes CT ) from the one I use to refer to the morning in the afternoon ( i.e. when the span referred to excludes CT , but is within the same larger diurnal span as CT — Fillmore , 1975 : 47 ) . |
| 24 | IT SEEMED VERY UNFAIR that poor Tristan Garel-Jones should be brought to book for referring to the French as ‘ frogs ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I can illustrate this by referring to a poem which was part of a racist leaflet circulated in Haringey during the 1987 election . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |