Example sentences of "[is] a reference to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's a reference to Ash 's Incarcerated Sorceress ? ’ |
| 2 | Er the reference to surface water presumably that 's a reference to flooding and the the need to avoid areas at risk from flooding . |
| 3 | The inclusion of the toy theatre is a reference to childhood memory , but it is one which lacks the comfort of Boyce 's flowered lap . |
| 4 | The historic past is a reference to Alexander Wilson , a Paisley weaver , poet and famous ornithologist , whose statue stands in the Abbey grounds . |
| 5 | Second , where there is a reference to time , for instance the past reference of former in ( 36 ) , it does not apply to the putative referent of the noun phrase , who still lives ; nor does it apply to the intensional entity , which is still available to any speaker of the sentence ; rather it applies in some way to the status of the property inherent in the noun ( king , in this example ) . |
| 6 | This is a reference to Gargouille , the great French DRAGON who ransacked Rouen in the seventh century . |
| 7 | William Rubin has suggested that the Gilles-like figure in the watercolour studies is a reference to Douanier Rousseau , clad most characteristically in his beret , and that his presence is still evoked in the left-hand side of the still life through stylistic allusions to his work in terms of insistently if softly modelled forms , smoothly rendered in nuances of Douanier-like greens . |
| 8 | The reference to ‘ the Principles ’ is a reference to statements of principle issued by S.I.B . |
| 9 | The name is a reference to Mr Donovan 's evidence that he sometimes applied lemon juice to lighten his hair , although never bleach . |