Example sentences of "[adj] reference " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , two of the most popular reference books contain errors in their tables of regnal years , their compilers having made the grievous mistake of assuming the method is a straightforward one , when in fact it is not . |
| 2 | A reliable table of regnal years for English monarchs starts ( popular reference books to the contrary ) with the accession of King Henry II on 19 December 1154 . |
| 3 | As major platforms such as CD-I and CDTV find success in consumer markets , the widespread use of the technologies for home education , self-improvement and popular reference may well have a push-through effect into the schools . |
| 4 | Major areas of application of consumer multimedia include music , games , home education and self-improvement , popular reference , ‘ how to ’ applications such as DIY , car maintenance etc , and child-minding software designed to keep children quiet and entertained while adults get on with their own lives for short but blissful periods of time . |
| 5 | The key to the strong position of a company like Dorling Kindersley is their ownership of three key ingredients : a huge resource of illustrative material ; a large body of textual material ; and some strongly branded , bestselling popular reference titles . |
| 6 | In this case you might use a popular reference work like Halliwell 's Film Guide , or a journal like The Monthly Film Bulletin or Sight and Sound . |
| 7 | HERE 'S a chance to win a copy of the Guinness UK Data Book ( from Guinness Publishing , publishers of authoritative , popular reference books for all the family ) if you correctly complete our Giant Crossword . |
| 8 | We were to spend many long hours exploring his meticulously catalogued treasury , practising the identification of species from our slim reference books on flora and malacology . |
| 9 | According to the last reference I looked up , erm Merseyside erm is about as big This is an old reference , |
| 10 | Moira is convinced that ‘ at this stage there was no conscious effort to recreate the past in the styles — one thing just led to another — but there was in terms of the prints ; with old reference books proving far and away the best place to find ideas . ’ |
| 11 | With the advance of communication and storage technology , and the proven inadequacy of passive , unhelpful search programs — both of the keyword Boolean type and the browsing , phrase-matching type — it seems likely that in the not-far-distant future the old reference retrieval software will fall into disuse , intermediaries will be redeployed and we shall be able to throw away our front-ends to DIALOG . |
| 12 | The Siva statue has no such direct representational reference . |
| 13 | In this context the declaration noted , however , that prospects for economic assistance would be enhanced if the Soviet Union decided to " shift resources substantially away from the military sector and to cut support to nations promoting regional conflict " ( the latter being an implied reference to Cuba ) . |
| 14 | Their own experiences allowed them to take up whatever social reference was needed and if anything the demands of Progressives helped for they allowed age-old traditions of humour to be shaped into what could often appear to be social satire . |
| 15 | This then led to an obsession with political and social questions with decreasing reference to the criterion by which they were being examined , namely the Christian gospel of salvation for all mankind . |
| 16 | The Mach386 package costs $1,000 including the Mach 2.5 kernel , the 4.3 BSD interface and utilities , GNU utilities from the Free Software Foundation ( GCC , GDB , GAS , Emacs , and Bison ) on-line reference manuals , a networking module , an X Window System 11.4 module and a supplemental on-line documentation module . |
| 17 | The raw reference material is reorganised so that it is geared to the needs of advice workers and oriented to the problems that clients bring to advice agencies . |
| 18 | Scientific reference to these protozoa has been made since the early 1930's . |
| 19 | To some extent therefore , the law dealing with obscene and indecent literature is a somewhat elusive reference point for the librarian . |
| 20 | The nursing and medical libraries can be made accessible to you , as can the skills of the librarian , for whom finding that elusive reference you have searched for can become a personal crusade . |
| 21 | She did not know that Neil 's anger and disgust with his old love had been fuelled more by her unpleasant reference to McAllister than anything else she had said to him . |
| 22 | The murder was also revenge , the statement went on , for ‘ the suspicious calls for co-existence and normalisation of relations with the entity of the Israeli enemy ’ — a clear reference to President Mubarak 's desire to talk to the Israelis about a Palestinian state . |
| 23 | The idea has effectively been ruled out by the Commission 's clear reference to the need for a ‘ common economic policy ’ , but the myth that it is possible to separate one from the other persists in Britain . |
| 24 | An account number or clear reference such as an order or delivery note number for identifying the invoice or statement . |
| 25 | In a clear reference to last June 's revelations by Royal writer Andrew Morton in his best-seller Diana : Her True Story , the spokesman added : ‘ We did n't in the summer and we do n't intend to now . ’ |
| 26 | In a clear reference to the claim that the Queen forced her to undertake the visit he shouted : ‘ Are you really happy to be here , ma'am ? ’ |
| 27 | In a clear reference to past failures by an Association which has , in years gone by , been unwilling to respond positively either to anything which is not of its own making , or anybody who is not on its payroll , Pickard went on to state , ‘ If we do not respond , for whatever reasons , keep knocking at the door until someone answers . ’ |
| 28 | Cardinal Lercaro , one of the moderators , stressed the need for greater speed on the part of the commissions , reminding them — an indirect but clear reference to the Theological Commission — that it was not their task to decide disputed issues by presenting for discussion one straightforward text , but to evaluate and organize amendments so that they could be more easily decided in the Council Hall . |
| 29 | And , in a clear reference to SCO 's well-publicised drive towards a flotation in the US , he said the acquisition will provide ‘ a faster route to liquidity for IXI shareholders . ’ |
| 30 | The second amount bore a twofold significance , since a statute of the previous century stipulated a minimum of £20 per annum for justices of the peace , while two of the sumptuary acts evidently assumed this to have been the minimum for any gentleman by defining a class ‘ under the degree of gentlemen ’ , including university graduates , having £10 a year in lands or £100 in goods — a clear reference , it would seem , to merchants . |