Example sentences of "[be] [art] reference to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Goodfellow the Court of Appeal ruled that there should be no reference to the risk of damage to property . |
| 2 | The NDI observer group , claiming that the elections were " generally open , orderly and well-administered " , had nevertheless pointed out that " the caretaker government 's use of the perquisites of incumbency " had seemed " to have given an advantage to one of the contesting parties " — presumed to be a reference to the IDA . |
| 3 | If possible , any reference to subtenants , licensees and casual callers ( eg customers ) should be deleted and there should most certainly not be a reference to the avoidance of the policy by acts or omission of other tenants in a multi-occupied building or shopping centre . |
| 4 | This turned out to be a reference to the secrecy surrounding the use of Ossie Wheatley 's power of veto as chairman of the cricket committee to block the reappointment of Mike Gatting rather than David Gower as England captain last summer . |
| 5 | This turned out to be a reference to the secrecy surrounding the use of Ossie Wheatley 's power of veto as chairman of the cricket committee to block the reappointment of Mike Gatting rather than David Gower as England captain last summer . |
| 6 | Shaikh Saad urged Kuwaitis to overcome their political differences and promised , in what was widely believed to be a reference to the restoration of the 1962 constitution , that " the people of Kuwait can only be rewarded for their trust and loyalty by further trust " . |
| 7 | The bulls supporting the baldaquin are thought to be a reference to the peasant background of Queen Libuše 's husband and co-ruler , the first Přemysl . |
| 8 | Erm looking interestingly enough , at the Hambleton figures of I understand these are new purchases , which is a bit surprising perhaps , but over a two year period there erm this is table three in Hambleton 's submission , there 's a reference to the number of erm the origin of house purchases from Cleveland in Hambleton , and it would be seen from there that Cleveland erm produced a hundred and fourteen dwellings , that 's purchases of Cleveland residents in the Hambleton area erm in nineteen ninety one to ninety three . |
| 9 | Worst of all , there is no reference to the work on physiological measures of intelligence , begun by J. P. Ertl in Canada a dozen years ago . |
| 10 | There is no reference to the Lambert box respirator , which was devised by my father , Dr Bertram Lambert , OBE , in June 1915 and used throughout the war . |
| 11 | Thus stated , there is no reference to the defendant 's intention or awareness of the risks : the fact that D has chosen to commit rape , robbery , or another serious offence , and has caused death thereby , is held to constitute sufficient moral grounds for placing the killing in the highest category . |
| 12 | This is a reference to the case concerning Eddie and the two submarines . |
| 13 | It is a reference to the hole at Augusta on which he clinched both his Masters titles in play-offs . |
| 14 | I was recently listening to a tape of a ten-year-old radio talk by literary critic Christopher Ricks , called Bob Dylan and the Language That He Used ( I should say that this is a reference to the lines , ‘ You used to be so amused/At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used ’ in Dylan 's classic song , Like a Rolling Stone ) . |
| 15 | There is a reference to the Alger Hiss case in which micro-film is discovered hidden in a tomato , instead of the famous pumpkin from which Whittaker Chambers produced some with a flourish . |
| 16 | … fixing the price of a property may be " arbitration " … but … an arbitration is a reference to the decision of one or more persons … of some matter … in difference between the parties … |
| 17 | ( 2 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(2) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the liability of the institution to him in respect of — ( a ) the principal amount of each sterling deposit which was made by him with a United Kingdom office of the institution before the making of the administration order and which under the terms on which it was made is or becomes due or payable while the order is in force ; and ( b ) accrued interest on any such deposit up to the time when it is or becomes due and payable as aforesaid ; but so that the total liability of the institution to him in respect of such deposits does not exceed £20,000 . |
| 18 | This is a reference to the prophet Jeremiah ( 31:31 ) , where the prophet says that the agreement made with God will be written on people 's hearts . |
| 19 | The ‘ blood of the covenant ’ is a reference to the time of Moses . |
| 20 | It is quite likely , however , that there is a reference to the author in the young man who escaped and ran away naked ( 14:51 ) at the arrest of Jesus . |
| 21 | This was a reference to the principle of reciprocity embodied in the Yalta Repatriation agreements which will be discussed in Chapter Five . |
| 22 | This was a reference to the document , the subject of these proceedings , the status of which was , on 26 August 1988 , still undecided . |
| 23 | This was a reference to the demonstrations staged by City 's success-starved supporters following the acrimonious dismissal of manager Peter Reid last month . |
| 24 | There was no meeting of the Defence Committee to discuss the Falklands until 1 April 1982 ; and there was no reference to the Falklands , in Cabinet , even after the New York talks of 26 and 27 February [ with the Argentine government ] , until Lord Carrington reported on events in South Georgia on 25 March , 1982 . |