Example sentences of "with reference [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He too , dies the early death of romance — en poète , as the poet Burns put it with reference to his own fate — and his end is enveloped in the consequences of his supposing that he has lit upon some Chatterton manuscripts .
2 In The Facts he examines his own vexed state with reference to the vexed question of whether it is better to make things up , and to distort them , and by contemplating his earlier re-invention of the time-honoured dualistic account of literature and human nature .
3 In the article on his work which appeared in 1985 Levi is at one point examined with reference to Leviticus .
4 McAllister ( 1980 ) describes that political culture as traditionalist , and dominated by clientelism , parochialism , local attachment , and ascription : politicians were elected on the basis of local reputation and solely with reference to local issues .
5 With reference to the article in June on breaking dormancy in sweet peas : experiments conducted over a period of several years at New College , Pontefract certainly seem to bear out Anne Swithinbank 's remarks .
6 Health needs and beliefs , special circumstances , cultural requirements and the history of immigration are amongst the subjects discussed with reference to individual minority groups .
7 This has nothing to do with reference to any particular dog , or even whether dogs actually exist at all .
8 A scene in the book singled out by many of its critical admirers — in which Robyn instructs Vic in the theories of metaphor and metonymy with reference to a Silk Cut commercial on a hoarding — is absent from the serial .
9 Although Catholics are not cited in the Smolensk Archive with reference to the taking of church valuables , their activity can be traced from other sources .
10 It is customary to frame the history of homosexuality with reference to the essentialist/constructionist debate ( homosexuality as essential human given versus homosexuality as socio-historical construct ) .
11 In the first of their works which deals with this topic at any length , The German Ideology , written in 1846 , they state on page 43 : ‘ The various stages of development in the division of labour are just so many different forms of ownership , i.e. the existing stage in the division of labour determines also the relations of individuals to one another with reference to the material , instrument and product of labour . ’
12 With reference to your test extra on the Vauxhall Calibra 4x4 ( 20 February ) , you omit to mention its most prestigious rival , the Mitsubishi Galant 4x4 .
13 With reference to real , external time , by day 9 of the experiment he was acting like a night-worker , even though he always go up at what he called 0800 and then ate breakfast .
14 This potential for power makes it possible to consider a situation in which decision-making with reference to local development can be backed by cash , and ultimately can become a closed and self-supporting system .
15 Do no misunderstand me , but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land .
16 With reference to War Office letter of 3rd March 1945 regarding your husband Lieutenant L. G. Cairns , Army Air Corps , I am directed to inform you that in view of the length of time which has elapsed since Lieutenant Cairns was reported missing , during which no news of him has been received from any source , the Department has reluctantly , and with deep regret , reached the conclusion that he lost his life .
17 The point was made earlier , with reference to the US Federal Reserve , that central bankers are part of a society whose thoughts , opinions and prejudices they inevitably share .
18 At first sight this seems to defy common sense , but the point is easily made with reference to whales .
19 Elsewhere , there are lists of plums , apples , pears , vines , and an assortment of vegetables , usually with reference to specific varieties .
20 With reference to the early part of the century Eagleton writes : ‘ It does not seem that the emulsive space of the public sphere extended beyond parsons and surgeons to farm labourers or domestic servants …
21 The argument that images of trees , fruits , and plants , have an economic association in Leapor 's verse takes on greater force with reference to ‘ The Month of August ’ .
22 Thus corporal punishment is defined in the section with reference to the tort of battery .
23 With reference to Eric Jenkins 's letter ( 19 January ) , I would hope that there should be no place for the use of hypochlorites in the treatment of wounds .
24 With reference to our conversation today , I give below the details of what we have agreed .
25 With reference to our telephone conversation the other day , would you please sign the enclosed document and return it to me , retaining the attached copy for your files .
26 In a review of the present situation of soil degradation in ten countries of the Near East , Rafiq ( 1978 : 9 ) states that : ‘ in most countries only qualitative information is available , ’ a view which Stocking ( 1978a ) shares with reference to Africa .
27 ( See also Banerji 1977 ; Economic and Political Weekly , Editorial , 27 March 1976 ; and with reference to the backlash effect , Bose 1978 )
28 With reference to Bob Giles ' gallery-targeted speech ( RIBA Journal September ) , it is my impression that the absence of a ‘ grand swell of opposition ’ to the Drawings Collection/Library proposals is largely due to the despair of the ‘ average member ’ in the Council taking their view seriously on anything of consequence .
29 Writing in 1959 and with reference to Peter Townsend 's calculation that a fifth of the population had not shared in the general improvement in living standards since the war , Roy Jenkins argued :
30 With reference to the mentally unfit patient , I would respond that there is no authority which forbids such treatment apart from the general principle which , as has been seen , presupposes a ‘ sound mind ’ and is , therefore , a weak basis on which to rely .
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