Example sentences of "[adv] referring to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I said walkers should make a courtesy check with estates when doing a specific trek in Wester Ross , but I was only referring to the peak of the stalking period — mid-August to mid October — and not the whole year . , |
| 4 | I detest the writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán who , unconsciously referring to the horse in ‘ Guernica ’ , asserts that Spanish museums , devoid of works of art , ‘ prefer the biggest donkey even if it is lame ’ ; and the sculptor Jorge Oteiza , champion of the Casón , who fears that his works will shrivel on contact with the bogeyman that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 5 | I 'm not just referring to the kind that Pinder indulged in , but trips to the bathroom , that sort of thing . |
| 6 | if they ever do discover who was responsible , and it 's not without the bounds of possibility , it 's going to cause an awful lot of red faces and I 'm not just referring to the villain himself . |
| 7 | ‘ Shear Dismay : For Bill Clinton , little things like a fancy haircut and a tempest in his travel office loom large , ’ said Time magazine , also referring to the uproar caused by the president 's sacking of the White House travel office and putting a distant cousin in charge . |
| 8 | I entirely agree with this decision and with the passage cited but it is important to note that when Nolan J. spoke of the alternatives which ‘ must both be made available to the subject ’ he was , as I think , clearly referring to the alternative on the one hand of allowing the breath specimen to stand and on the other hand of exercising the right to have it replaced by a specimen of blood or urine in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 9 | But when you think of er It 's not really referring to the beauty of the world . |
| 10 | Instead of now referring to the child as something for us to share , Sarah started saying it was hers . |
| 11 | The Lebanese government received a US letter of assurances on Oct. 19 , reportedly referring to the implementation of UN Resolution 425 , adopted in March 1978 following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and calling for a complete Israeli withdrawal [ see p. 29649 ] . |
| 12 | He is not impressed by the idea of suggestion as the basis of crowd behaviour , for no explanation is given by simply referring to the suggestibility of people as the reason for crowds being influenced by leaders . |
| 13 | I call this an alternative theory because it seems obvious to me that the committee did think that clause 12 was necessary — and I am not simply referring to the definition of ‘ deception . ’ |
| 14 | Paul is evidently referring to the Spirit when talking of this power , since he not only prays that the Spirit will reveal it to his readers , but he , in common with other New Testament writers , associates the Spirit with the resurrection of Christ from the dead ( I Tim . |
| 15 | The Herdwick sheep , who withstand wind and weather on the fells with their ‘ heafing ’ property of returning to base , were not so named until the 18th Century , the name ‘ Herdwyke ’ previously referring to the abbey sheep farms . |
| 16 | Both Lord Coleridge C.J. and Smith J. relied on Morgan v. Palmer ; Smith J. also invoked Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 , without however referring to the judgment of Martin B. Neither referred to the power of immediate distress . |
| 17 | Li Yuan watched the Marshal while he talked , barely referring to the folder in his lap , unless it was to take some diagram from it and hand it to Tolonen . |
| 18 | Questions like these in the consultant 's mind led to fanning a small positive spark in seemingly totally negative behaviour , and this made a difference to Mr E both in relation to his colleagues in the group , and as Dave 's teacher to whom a way out of a vicious circle of perpetual defeat could in this way be illustrated , again without explicitly referring to the analogy of the situation . |
| 19 | Without specifically referring to the letter to Mr. Choudhury , he quashed both decisions by the appeal committee . |