Example sentences of "referring to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Dick was referring to Spitfire IX G-IXCC which first flew on March 11 . |
| 4 | We instinctively understood that de Niro was referring to Taxi Driver , even in this much later movie and it 's funny . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | referring to Council treadmills and not the actual committee . . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Energy is released when either a neutron or a proton is shaken loose , the reactions being written ( n referring to neutron and p proton ) : The combined mass of the final products is smaller than the combined mass of the initial nuclei . |
| 10 | They are referring to rabies , which in Portuguese is called raiva — literally rage , fury , madness . |
| 11 | Then he realized she was referring to sex . |
| 12 | Such generalizations appear to be viewed as acceptable when referring to sex differences . |
| 13 | Many of the studies that do exist have been small scale or have had some other issue , such as integration , as their key focus , referring to welfare assistance either in passing or as a subsidiary concern . |
| 14 | Beveridge aimed to correct this situation in the 1940s by refusing to call housewives dependants and by referring to marriage as an equal partnership . |
| 15 | It has been observed that in Berkshire , topographical names , particularly those referring to water are the most common Old English names in areas where early Anglo-Saxon settlement has been attested archaeologically . |
| 16 | The American habit of referring to housework as ‘ homemaking ’ neatly cements the ideological division between home and work . |
| 17 | Other statements such as ‘ I am a slave ’ ‘ I am a good worker ’ ( referring to housework ) are also statements of affiliation to the domestic role . |
| 18 | Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it . |
| 19 | In Figure 7.2 operations are indicated by circles containing code numbers referring to company standards or special instructions and identifying the sequence in which they are to be performed . |
| 20 | In Figure 7.2 operations are indicated by circles containing code numbers referring to company standards or special instructions and identifying the sequence in which they are to be performed . |
| 21 | Referring to literature , painting and language , Jakobson shows how the conventions which guarantee a form 's verisimilitude and secure it in public opinion have temporal limits on their effectivity : through time , convention becomes cliche , picture becomes ideogram , genre becomes formula , and tradition becomes prison-house . |
| 22 | We can surely think of pleasure and pain as referring to felt qualities of experience without denying that these qualities are of radically different kinds . |
| 23 | Indeed , Rous claimed that he had petitioned Parliament in 1459 asking for legislation on enclosures , and although no such petition is preserved , there is one from as early as 1414 from the village of Chesterton in Cambridgeshire referring to depopulation there ( 19 , pp.276–7 ; 58 , pp.81–2 , 102–3 , 148 ) . |
| 24 | Now whether you like it or not , and you 're not in our position , because we er prepared to manage this authority , you would have had that same reduction to find , and I did hear Councillor and he was also referring to capital spend the other day , saying he could have found ten million . |
| 25 | A psychological term referring to appetite or physical behaviour , concepts which are not mentalistic ; a term used in Tolman 's purposive behaviourism or expectancy theory ( Rivers 1964 ) . |
| 26 | Jencks , referring to income from all sources including work , concluded that when social class background and measured ability were taken into account , schooling had only a small effect on income . |
| 27 | However , there is an even more active sense of the notion of differentiation than that referring to marketing and planning strategies , although these are derivatives of this final process . |
| 28 | If one takes ‘ amount ’ as referring to duration and extent ( number of people affected ) , perhaps together with probability and proximity , Bentham certainly does not think that all that matters is amount , since this would be to forget intensity , which seems to mean simply the extent to which it is actually liked moment by moment . |
| 29 | It appears McCashin was referring to Database Informatica . |
| 30 | The reports produced to date are internal documents , and only those referring to botany need be mentioned here . |