Example sentences of "referring to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill , there 's a point , you keep referring to Governors who are political appointees , and the inference that you give to that . |
| 2 | ‘ You know you love it , ’ said Scarlet , who was referring to Constance 's single state and not to her lover . |
| 3 | Over the farmhouse door is a date stone , 1712 , referring to Roger and Isabella Taylor , who lived there at that time . |
| 4 | Although , as I mentioned before , rival groups of psycholinguists dispute the question of whether , when , and how the central systems exert a top-down influence upon the parsing processes , contemporary psycholinguistics proceeds on the assumption that levels of linguistic representation ( phoneme , morpheme , noun phrase , clause , etcetera ) are ‘ psychologically real ’ in the sense of referring to processes in the nervous system which take a certain time , which happen in a particular order , and which have determinate causal relations to similar processes . |
| 5 | He was referring to Ryan again . |
| 6 | For instance , there are particles because physics has tests for the existence of particles and rules for referring to particles . |
| 7 | Referring to instances of discourse types as infelicitous raises the issue of the relationship of these terms to speech acts and language functions ( see 3.11 ) . |
| 8 | In His account of what happened to the rich man and Lazarus after they died ( Luke 16 verses 19/31 ) Jesus quoted the words spoken to the rich man in hell , by Abraham and in verses 29 and 31 we see Abraham referring to Moses and The Prophets and clearly he is speaking specifically of the scriptures attributed to them . |
| 9 | For instance , it may be legitimate to generalize from a finite list of observation statements referring to litmus paper turning red on being immersed in acid to the universal law , ‘ Acids turn litmus red ’ , or to generalize from a list of observations referring to heated metals to the law , ‘ Metals expand when heated ’ . |
| 10 | The notion of pastiche is now a guiding thread in critical discourse , to the extent that Palandri 's novel can be put forward as ‘ a disturbing attempt to write a kitsch novel ’ ( De Michelis 1986a ) , and the argument be made — — referring to Piersanti 's Charles — that no novelist born in the 1950s can return to ‘ traditional narrative ’ without being aware that he/she is ‘ holding an old toy which might look fine in an antique shop , or might be an ornament or a collector 's item , but is no good for playing with any more ’ ; if they do use it ( but why should they if it is no use any more ? ) , it is with a mixture of pleasure and melancholy , ‘ like someone repeating a game which once gave pleasure for years and years and now gives none , only the memory of the joy it once gave ’ ( De Michelis 1986b ) . |
| 11 | In comparison with the other two passages , this one has a rather low frequency of nouns ( 4 ) ; moreover , over half of these nouns are abstract ( 20 ) , referring to entities which exist on a social or psychological plane : effort , subject , terms , money , feelings and aristocracy all occur in the first sentence . |
| 12 | Referring to assessment and monitoring , the guidelines continue : ’ Their role in these areas of housing will be passed over to housing associations and the private sector . ’ |
| 13 | As the hammer came down at a then-record $53.9 million , Mr Payson whooped ‘ I think he 'd be happy with that ’ , referring to Van Gogh , who killed himself a year after completing Irises , aged 37 . |
| 14 | Dick was referring to Spitfire IX G-IXCC which first flew on March 11 . |
| 15 | Referring to WBA and IBF champion Riddick Bowe , he added : ‘ There are two heavyweight champions who are bidding for someone 's services . |
| 16 | He also discussed ‘ savages ’ , referring to figures such as Frazer , Tyler [ sic ] , Rivers , Elliot Smith , Marett , and Durkheim . |
| 17 | We instinctively understood that de Niro was referring to Taxi Driver , even in this much later movie and it 's funny . |
| 18 | The NME was unusually acerbic about the incident , referring to Gedge 's ‘ fat arse ’ and continuing : ‘ This could of course explain the band 's recent silence . |
| 19 | Confusingly , the interest rate quoted when referring to SCP is the effective yield and not the straight discount percentage , which makes the calculations less straightforward . |
| 20 | A number of people were walking quietly to and fro , studying the architecture , referring to guide-books and conversing in low voices . |
| 21 | John Cunningham in ‘ The Guardian ’ , referring to coverage of the mortar bomb attack on Whitehall wrote : ‘ Whitehall 's scariest 60 minutes proved to be one of radio 's finest hours , effortlessly making the case for an all news channel ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ How are things in the world of politics , Mr Whitlock ? ’ he asked , referring to Whitlock 's cover as a member of the Kenyan embassy at the United Nations . |
| 23 | Referring to barristers ' opposition to the extension of rights of audience , he said Lord Mackay had withstood enormous pressures . |
| 24 | Referring to Singapore 's military co-operation with Taiwan , Li told a press conference on Aug. 12 : " This is a fact , and we should not mind it too much . " |
| 25 | Again referring to Derwentwater he laments nature ‘ despoiled of its charms by sordid insensibility and all its leafy honours laid low ’ . |
| 26 | And first of all before we er we put the reports we , there are a number of er , there 's one alteration and a number of er , additions obviously alteration or I should say a a an amendment is something an important place on page fifteen er , at the tope of the page referring to December nineteen ninety two I 've put , which is agreed by GP committee with the exception of young these representatives , that we ask them to bring thirty pounds towards the cost that should be twenty five . |
| 27 | referring to Council treadmills and not the actual committee . . |
| 28 | However , the policy itself or the wording of the of of the policy refers to exceptionally in referring to development needing to be in the countryside . |
| 29 | ‘ They would never have dared to do this here if our country was not in such a mess at present , ’ an Italian security source said after the murder , referring to country 's the growing political crisis . |
| 30 | Lord Lane , referring to members of the public who attended court regularly to follow cases , made special mention of a Mr Maurice Mahoney . |