Example sentences of "[prep] reference to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Truman summed up the central dilemma of presidential power when , in reference to his successor , he said , ‘ He 'll sit here , and he 'll say , ‘ Do this ! |
| 2 | Waller was argumentative , opinionated , and sometimes outspoken , but he had a sense of humour ( ‘ I am the Wallerian degeneration ’ in reference to his father 's eponymous discovery ) and he retained an unworldly delight in science throughout his life . |
| 3 | Lakatos 's use of terms such as contagious panic with reference to Kuhn 's characterization of crisis states and ‘ mob psychology ’ in reference to his characterization of revolutions is too extreme . |
| 4 | It transpired this was his permanent secretary , Sir Bruce Fraser , one of the greatest Treasury mandarins of the day Vivian had acted without reference to his secretary of state , the Head of the Home Civil service , or the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | An artist 's contribution now , he says , must be assessed by reference to his positioning within the process of production . |
| 6 | Although I have chosen to begin reading Marx 's theory of ideology by reference to his concept of consciousness , the material form of consciousness and also of ideology is clearly language : |
| 7 | ( 7 ) If an employee of the Council becomes a member of the Council and was by reference to his employment by the Council a participant in a pension scheme such as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 5 ) above — |
| 8 | Divided into forty-four short chapters and illustrated by a large selection of good colour reproductions , it offers a convincing explanation of the artist 's apparently inexplicable imagery by reference to his biography and to source material which ranges from Egyptian and Greek sculpture to Quattrocento frescoes , Symbolist pictures of the nineteenth century , film stills , pulp fiction , popular postcards and encyclopaedia illustrations . |