Example sentences of "he was referring to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was referring to a workshop organised in Kitwe , Zambia , in 1977 . |
| 2 | G. M. Young did not contest this judgment , which has led subsequent biographers to attempt elaborate textual exegesis in order to show that Baldwin 's remarks were venial because he was referring to a hypothetical election in 1933 or 1934 , and not to the actual one in 1935 . |
| 3 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 4 | And although I believe he was referring to a certain kind of abstract thinking — the kind that reduced the English Hegelian tradition to a lyrical hymn to the Absolute , and of which his own thesis on Bradley of 1916 came very near to imitating ( which is why he declared , on its publication in 1963 , that he did not pretend to understand it ) , he possessed an outstanding capacity for reasoned argument . |
| 5 | He was referring to a development of a policy document first published in early May 1989 , calling for the state sector " to issue public tenders for the sale of all profitable or non-profitable production , service and trade units , with the exception of important and strategic units " . |