Example sentences of "[prep] reference to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , supposedly , nothing can be admitted to our writings unless it is capable of being checked by the reader , either via the presentation of original data and a methods section or through reference to other work which upholds similar standards . |
| 2 | Secondly , having relaxed the exclusionary rule , Pepper v. Hart gives no guidance as to the relationship between reference to parliamentary material as an aid to statutory construction and other aids to construction . |
| 3 | A licensing board will be held to have failed to exercise its discretion in a reasonable man tier by not giving due consideration to a matter , such as objections , if there is absence of reference to that matter in the statement of reasons ( R. W. Cairns Ltd. v. Busby East Church kirk Session , 1985 S.L.T. 493 ) . |
| 4 | In contrast , idealist thought supposes a converse determination and disregards the importance of reference to practical activity for the generation of abstractions , thereby remaining ideological . |
| 5 | Their sell-out shows invariably consist of a series of increasingly strange guests ( usually played by Bob Mortimer ) constantly interrupted by Reeves 's tangential monologues and a catalogue of references to pop music and trash television . |
| 6 | John Mabb , UK director of the NZ Meat Producers Board , made only the briefest of references to last year 's imports of chilled lamb into Scotland which led to recriminations from farmers . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) that , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , the rule excluding reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to statutory construction should be relaxed so as to permit such reference where ( a ) legislation was ambiguous or obscure or led to absurdity , ( b ) the material relied upon consisted of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as was necessary to understand such statements and their effect and ( c ) the statements relied upon were clear ( post , pp. 1039C , G , 1040B , D–E , 1042C–D , H — 1043A , 1056A–C , 1061E–F , 1063F–G ) . |
| 8 | Broadly speaking you are asked to detail your aims and research questions , methods , timetable and costs , the other support ( including institutional ) available to you , and the background to the proposed study including reference to existing research in the subject you propose to study . |
| 9 | This requires a specific recommendation by Convocation and a subsequent report by the Senate to be submitted to Council with reference to each individual . |
| 10 | The perception of shape and pattern in apparently disorderly ( but dynamic and mobile ) things is usually mentioned with reference to visual perception , and it is commented on in the sciences and the arts alike : it is prominent , for example , in the notebooks of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins ( J. Milroy , 1977 ) , in his careful descriptions of cloud formations , waterfalls and other dynamic phenomena , and much of the poet 's imagery depends on a kind of ‘ observer 's paradox ’ ( rather different from the familiar Labov version ) , through which a dynamic phenomenon can nonetheless appear to have stable shapes and patterns within it and , conversely , a static phenomenon may appear to contain mobility . |
| 11 | For the latter , however , he was able to draw on a set of annals which seems to have been written in Angers , to judge from the use of the Latin verb venire ( to come ) with reference to that city . |
| 12 | Health needs and beliefs , special circumstances , cultural requirements and the history of immigration are amongst the subjects discussed with reference to individual minority groups . |
| 13 | Application : Sample drills provided , selected from existing materials with reference to procedural guidance . |
| 14 | As the Swann Report says ( again with reference to Multicultural Education ) , ‘ It is important to recognise however that permeation alone can not be regarded as providing adequate provision for the kind of teaching which we have advocated … . without additional specialist course work , both compulsory and optional ’ ( DES , 1985 : 559 ) . |
| 15 | With reference to prior drug use , excluding alcohol and tobacco , most of the sample ( 92 per cent ) had regularly used at least one other drug for recreational purposes prior to taking heroin . |
| 16 | This question can only be answered with reference to specific indexing environments . |
| 17 | The recent HMI survey on the initial training of teachers in the public sector remarks , with reference to primary BEd degrees : |
| 18 | In practice , however , it often happens that the operating thrust of different , parts of the organisation are not aligned since the structure has evolved with reference to one part rather than the whole . |
| 19 | Discussion of less traditional approaches and concerns continues with reference to social work and citizens ' charters , citizenship and participation . |
| 20 | But , as he pointed out in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ( 1933 ) with reference to abstract philosophizing , his mind was a ‘ heavy ’ one . |
| 21 | This potential for power makes it possible to consider a situation in which decision-making with reference to local development can be backed by cash , and ultimately can become a closed and self-supporting system . |
| 22 | We conclude by illustrating these themes with reference to German politics in the 1930s and British politics in the 1980s . |
| 23 | Areas including communication , counselling , stress , perception and group processes are explored with reference to nursing practice . |
| 24 | This point is emphasised by the torque/speed/switching angle characteristics of Fig. 7.7 , which have as their envelope the pull-out torque/speed characteristic introduced with reference to open-loop control . |
| 25 | These issues are discussed with reference to cardiac surgery in elderly patients with reference to the main theories of allocation : QALYs , needs theories , the sanctity of life theory , the lottery theory , and market forces . |
| 26 | The quantity of mitochondrial DNA isolated from the H and W strains was estimated with reference to nuclear DNA . |
| 27 | At this point students should be asked to comment on these results and on the advantages of CVP analysis with reference to this problem . |
| 28 | Any reminder of the catastrophic fire which destroyed the main thematic Pavilion of Discoveries in February is happily dismissed with references to past World Fairs . |
| 29 | Wittgenstein 's discussion is certainly not peppered with references to narrow-front migration , smoke-bathing , or Skinner boxes , ( nor is that of Regan , Singer , Frey , or Midgley herself , come to that ) , since his concern is to clarify the implications of our everyday ways of attributing psychological concepts like hope , fear , belief , understanding , and so on . |
| 30 | Some are dismantled entirely into separate components for generative reassembly in reference to grammatical rule , others are partly dismantled but are left as adaptable formulaic frameworks to be adjusted to circumstances ; some again remain as holistically fixed , essentially large-scale lexical items . |