Example sentences of "[vb pp] by refer [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the police officers responded by referring to the ‘ new manual ’ , parts of which were then read out in court . |
| 2 | Questions such as ‘ what is the name of the river on which New Orleans stands ? ’ or ‘ what is the height of Ben Nevis ? ’ can be answered by referring to the appropriate page of the atlas . |
| 3 | It is recognised that there is no easy response to be made by referring to the independence of Religious Education in Catholic schools . |
| 4 | The lines are positioned by referring to the CE or balance point of the rig . |
| 5 | The first three kinds of honorific were clearly distinguished by Comrie ( 1976b ) , who pointed out that traditional descriptions have often confused ( i ) and ( ii ) : the distinction is that in ( i ) respect can only be conveyed by referring to the " target " of the respect , whereas in ( ii ) it can be conveyed without necessarily referring to the target . |
| 6 | This curve has interesting properties , which can be partly understood by referring to the geometry of the D structure . |
| 7 | The initial difficulty with discussing curvature in our three-dimensional world is best appreciated by referring to the analogous case of a two-dimensional being living in a curved two-dimensional surface . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | The force of this statement can be illustrated by referring to the two functions of certiorari . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |