Example sentences of "reference to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 2 | Mostly they consisted of reporting upon the current state of affairs in Vienna , with particular reference to the activities of certain persons suspected of being hostile to the French and their emperor . |
| 3 | But it omitted any reference to the dangers of ‘ Leftism ’ , despite the fact that Deng had stressed this , and that it was at the heart of a party politburo statement . |
| 4 | This can be illustrated by reference to the provisions of English law . |
| 5 | The wider impact of this decision was to define the scope of judicial review not in terms of the source of the power being exercised but rather by reference to the functions of judicial review and its appropriateness in particular cases . |
| 6 | The prospect that nationalists in Azerbaijan and Armenia might be able to settle the conflict in their republics without reference to the authorities in Moscow was raised on Jan. 24 when leaders of the Azerbaijan Popular Front and the Armenian National Movement agreed to attend peace talks organized by the Latvian Popular Front beginning on Feb. 1 in Riga ( the Latvian capital ) . |
| 7 | Under this heading some arguments will be considered to the effect that corporate power can be legitimated by reference to the rights of the corporators . |
| 8 | There also needs to be much clearer reference to the limitations in the audit process and , in particular , in relation to collusive or immaterial fraud and sudden changes in companies ' financial positions , as these are also fundamental to the expectations gap . |
| 9 | Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant . |
| 10 | All these obligations were accounted for in the first recorded reference to the properties in the Company 's books on 19th April 1496 together with the £10 for John Randall the school 's first known Master , and the £4 6 8d to John Bockley , the priest at Longdendale . |
| 11 | This proposal aims to study the implications of reducing fat in the British diet , with particular reference to the barriers to changes in food production and consumption patterns . |
| 12 | Reviews research on attitudes and talk to older people , with particular reference to the concepts of status and solidarity . |
| 13 | Purely procedural rules may be binding by reference to the rules in force at the time when the procedure is applied . |
| 14 | Even ‘ The Rape ’ , that celebrated transformation of the features of a face into a female torso , can be partly understood , according to the author , by reference to the circumstances of his mother 's death . |
| 15 | This view is supported on the basis that the section does not affect the definition of ‘ the interests of the company ’ , which continues to mean ‘ the interests of the company as a commercial entity as judged by reference to the interests of the shareholders ’ . |
| 16 | I shall now examine the relationship between these collectivities and politics , first by a further reference to the surveys of the 1960s cited earlier , then by developing a broader historical perspective . |
| 17 | " We are convinced that what is going on is the beginning of Renamo in South Africa , " said Mandela on Sept. 14 , in a reference to the actions of white-backed rebels in Mozambique . |
| 18 | He made no direct reference to the disturbances in April against the government 's economic policies . |
| 19 | With reference to the networks under study , the samples can not be considered random as such , because it is not true that all users in the township during the prevalence period had an equal chance of being selected . |
| 20 | Even Adomnán 's reference to ‘ strangers ’ holding sway among the Dalriadic Scots can not be construed as a reference to the agents of King Oswiu ( or Ecgfrith ) because these strangers are represented as oppressing Dál Riata from c . |
| 21 | ‘ Rule 3 : Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods in a deliverable state , but the seller is bound to weigh , measure , test or do some other act or thing with reference to the goods for the purpose of ascertaining the price , the property does not pass until the act or thing is done and the buyer has notice that it has been done . ’ |
| 22 | For the tiny minority of nationalist rebels in Europe at that time , this was a horrifying act of dynastic power , imposed on what had been an ancient and important State with no reference to the wishes of the inhabitants . |
| 23 | The reference to the wishes of the electorate , although seldom recorded in the minutes of the Cabinet , was unlikely to have been far from the minds of those Ministers responsible for the conduct of government business . |
| 24 | But the fallacious assumption underlying this reasoning is that the idea of identity of meaning makes sense only if the criteria of equisignificance can be clearly defined , whereas the simple fact is that any reference to the criteria of equisignificance already presupposes the notion of sameness of meaning . |
| 25 | It reviews the extensive literature on leadership so far as it is relevant to top management posts in the Civil Service ; surveys the available information about the careers of top managers ( generally Permanent Secretary level ) in the Civil Service ; and focuses attention on possible lessons with reference to the criteria for selecting , training and managing the careers of higher civil servants in Britain . |
| 26 | Order 16 , r 9 ( as revised ) made important changes to the rules on transfer and requires that : ( 1 ) the grounds of an application for transfer be stated by reference to the criteria in art 7(5) ; and ( 2 ) all applications ( whether or not based on " financial substance " ) be supported by a statement of value . |
| 27 | The statement of the relevant facts and evidence are commonly set out at the beginning of the judgment , but in appellate courts they may be incorporated by reference to the judgments of lower courts and may be in the middle of the report of the case if that is where the principal judgment appears . |
| 28 | Its disadvantages are : ( 1 ) The regulators might stop framing their rules in the shadow of and by reference to the principles of fiduciary law . |
| 29 | There have been recurring attempts by the police service since World War II to develop alternative means of entry and promotion to the traditional progression from the ranks , which have always been met by by by bitter reference to the schemes of the 1930s . |
| 30 | The esteem in which the literary ability of these men was held can be seen in a collection known as the Epistulae Austrasiacae , which contains two of Dynamius 's letters and also a passing reference to the skills of Parthenius . |