Example sentences of "he refer to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard him refer to the Danuese as ‘ natives ’ and myself once as a ‘ Chinaman ’ . |
| 2 | Patrick Forbes gets right to the heart of the matter when , in his scholarly work Champagne ( 1967 ) , he refers to a treatise , Traité de la culture des vignes de Champagne , written by a certain Frère Pierre , a member of the community at the abbey of Hautvillers during and after the time of his mentor Dom Pérignon . |
| 3 | In one of the footnotes he refers to a criticism of this theory made by my friend George Boas , the historian and philosopher . |
| 4 | Elsewhere he refers to a treaty imposed by the king on the peoples who lived on the river Wahal , that is the Franks . |
| 5 | In a well-known Christian discourse , chapter 17 of The Acts of the Apostles , St Paul makes a speech to the Athenians in which he refers to an altar inscribed with the words , ‘ To an unknown God ’ . |
| 6 | Therefore when he refers to the sphere of circulation here he does not have in mind market relations , but rather a system of planned production and exchange , which may or may not have included some form of monetary accounting . |
| 7 | When Hare speaks of universalisability he refers to the requirement that one be prepared to support one 's ethical judgements by precepts couched in completely general terms . |
| 8 | Lewis Carroll possibly knew of this phrase but , because he refers to the grin outlasting the rest of the body , it is more likely that his real influence was the cheese rather than the swordsman . |
| 9 | Then he refers to the passage which I have already read . |
| 10 | He refers to the Kingdom fifty-two times , while Mark uses it nineteen times , Luke forty-four times and John only four . |
| 11 | In the tradition of Advaita or non-Dualism he refers to the soul , ( Ātman ) , and God , ( Brahman ) , as knowers rather than objects of knowledge and claims that it is not possible for mortal beings by the use of reason alone to know the knower of knowing . |
| 12 | Clearly the diagram the the the table in Mr 's proof where he refers to the traffic figures , th those are taken indeed from our own er committee report er to members which set out er the relief at various points , six points on the highway network , for the outer route compared er with the inner routes . |
| 13 | He and She can refer to the third party in either of the triangular relationships , but in Sonnet 2 He refers to the Friend 's future child , while in 3 She refers to the Friend 's mother ; in 50 and 51 He refers to the poet 's horse ! |
| 14 | The term " Chetniks " could only have been used very loosely to apply to them all , although in Macmillan 's diary entry on his visit to Klagenfurt he refers to the use of the word " Chetniks " to describe " guerilla forces raised by the Germans from Slovenes and … |
| 15 | In an Aug. 12 interview he referred to a split in the Polisario leadership dating back to 1988 and said that he was " rallying against those who are stubbornly persisting in imposing a disastrous situation on our people … a dead-end solution " . |
| 16 | Lord Wilberforce ( whose words I have also quoted ) had second thoughts in an extra-judicial capacity at a seminar in Canberra ( Symposium on Statutory Interpretation , Canberra , 1983 , p. 13 ) where he referred to a case in which the minister on two occasions during the passage of a Finance Bill stated expressly that the provision was not intended to tax a particular class of beneficiary . |
| 17 | He referred to a passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in the earlier appeal [ 1992 ] Fam. 106 , 122–123 . |
| 18 | As Liberal Democrat leader John Pugh began to speak on the issue at Southport Town Hall he referred to a note from chief executive Graham Haywood . |
| 19 | He referred to a dinner given in honour of A. R. Orage , the retiring editor whom Philip Mairet was to replace , which was of inordinate length and at which there were interminable speeches , and where — this was represented as the ultimate horror , uttered in the tones of a cri de coeur — ‘ you could n't even get a drink ! ’ |
| 20 | He referred to the withdrawal of Soviet units from Mongolia and Soviet preparations to withdraw from Afghanistan . |
| 21 | He referred to the school at Lyons , and indeed knew Bourgelat personally . |
| 22 | After reviewing the procedure which had been in force since 1983 , he referred to the decision of the Divisional Court in Ex parte Handscomb and said that he accepted the conclusion of that court : ‘ that there are strong arguments for carrying out this consultation exercise as soon as practicable following the imposition of a discretionary life sentence . ’ |
| 23 | He referred to the help he had received for his humble efforts during the year of his mayoralty ( 1811 ) . |
| 24 | Erm I think it 's also now pretty much common ground that the capacity of York city is around three thousand three hundred , but I think in in in taking an view on that , and in taking any view o on future windfalls , it is necessary for the panel to keep in mind that historically in the nineteen eighties windfalls were coming through at a time when it was not a adopted local plan for the city of York , so to some extent anything by definition of a substantial size was likely to be a windfall , erm , but also more to the point than that definitional point , I would expect to see , and I think what Mr Curtis has said earlier on that the local plan is likely to tighten up on criteria for release of sites , both small and large , he referred to the shortage of open space , and I would expect to see a policy change in short , a policy climate change , within the city of York that would constrain past historical rates of windfall release . |
| 25 | I also have a copy of a speech he made in Geneva to the United Nations , in which he referred to the fatwa as outrageous , and an abuse of the most fundamental human rights — really very strong language for the British Government ! ’ |
| 26 | One old horseman put forward his opinion that the reason for the teams ' long stretch of work in the early part of the day was , in fact , to save taking off ( the harness etc. ) in the middle of the day ; and — what is more interesting — he referred to the day 's visit to the field as journey . |
| 27 | In a post-war broadcast in 1946 , he referred to the development of eight-feet wide trams with resilient wheels which he hoped to introduce to Blackpool , and these were manifested in the 1952 Coronation trams . |
| 28 | He referred to the fact that the Government of the day distributed a manifesto to every household in the land . |
| 29 | The hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) made an important point when he referred to the need for health and safety to be designed in from the beginning . |
| 30 | There were insufficient baths , particularly for the women , and he referred to the matter every year from 1905 to 1911 , before there were any improvements . |