Example sentences of "reference to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treated by theology as one of the deadly sins and recognised and discussed without inhibition by philosophers , poets , psychologists and other observers of the human scene until the present century , it has all but disappeared from view in our own time and reference to its existence , let alone study of its function , has been sedulously avoided . |
| 2 | The last reference to its use for paper production appears around the 1840s , following which it went out of use . |
| 3 | I would , therefore , suggest that consent is to be explained by reference to its purported normative consequences only . |
| 4 | Unlike America or France , the Government is defined by reference to its ability to command majority support in the lower House . |
| 5 | This overall picture of the marriage relationship would not be complete , however , without some reference to its role as a device imposing ‘ decency and respectability ’ by regulating ‘ indiscriminate child-bearing ’ . |
| 6 | The rare Witrik is also called the Witrug ( white back ) , Ruggelde ( rigget ) or Aalstreep ( eelstripe ) , the latter in reference to its colour-sided red or white coat . |
| 7 | The IIDA system — Individualized Instruction for Data Access — has been briefly described above , with special reference to its training mode . |
| 8 | Its name in Greek means ‘ that which looks downwards ’ , a reference to its head being so heavy that it would only loll lazily in the hot sand , waiting for a victim to walk by . |
| 9 | The Author would like to thank the RAF Museum for its co-operation in the making of this article , and for allowing reference to its own publication on Sugar , A Very Special Lancaster by F E Dymond . |
| 10 | At this point it is likely that we may make a second mistake and go for a purely positivist view of law , the view that the nature of law can be appreciated purely by reciting the elements of positing and applying law without reference to its objectives or functions , so that we have a legal system as long as there are institutionalised ways of selecting mandatory rules and some arrangement for an authoritative application of those rules to particular situations . |
| 11 | 1992 Medals of Honour were awarded to : Great Britain , for the restoration of the landscape and ornamental buildings of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Estate , Ripon ; Poland , for the restoration of the eighteenth-century wooden church of the Birth of Our Lady , Bralin ; Hungary , for the restoration and renewal of the old village of Magyarpolany ; Germany , for the restoration of the House of the Templars , Amorbach , with particular reference to its sixteenth-century interior decoration ; Finland , for the restoration of the House of Estates , Helsinki ; and Belgium , for the restoration and conversion into a cartoon museum of the Waucquez warehouse , originally designed by Victor Horta . |
| 12 | Eos , dawn ( Greek ) in reference to its primitive structure and early temporal occurrence ; raptor , plunderer ( Latin ) in reference to its carnivorous habits and grasping hand ; luna , moon ( Latin ) and - ensis , place ( Latin ) , in reference to the type locality . |
| 13 | Eos , dawn ( Greek ) in reference to its primitive structure and early temporal occurrence ; raptor , plunderer ( Latin ) in reference to its carnivorous habits and grasping hand ; luna , moon ( Latin ) and - ensis , place ( Latin ) , in reference to the type locality . |
| 14 | He made moving reference to its founding philosophy . |
| 15 | I In attempting to elucidate , with reference to its context , one of the strands of her critique of Western metaphysics , I hope to make her work more accessible for discussion to a wider readership . |
| 16 | The deposit is paid and then ( with reference to its intended use ) the finance company assesses the likely sale proceeds in three years time . |
| 17 | Since , as John Butman says , no new car can be considered without reference to its antecedents and successors , tracing the development process allows — mandates even — detours into company and industry history , economics , the principles of design , and much else . |
| 18 | With no other point of reference to its size , the impression given , by the establishing angle of the actor 's gaze , was of something very large indeed surfacing . |
| 19 | Although this herb has its origin in Southern Europe and western Asia , its common name is said to derive either from the Anglo-Saxon dylle or the old Norse dilla which meant to soothe or lull , in reference to its use in calming infants who had hiccups — in fact Culpeper said " it stayeth the hiccough . " |
| 20 | Such a theory implies that decoding a speech signal by reference to its articulatory features may be what characterises , at least in part , the special capacities of the left hemisphere ( Liberman , 1974 ) . |
| 21 | Rather than justifying private property by reference to its role in creating a ‘ free society ’ , emphasis can be placed on the part played by ownership in securing vital human interests . |
| 22 | In addition , most theories of legitimacy simultaneously attempt to justify power by reference to its ends . |
| 23 | A screening programme is a public health measure , and any balanced discussion should make at least some reference to its overall impact on the use of health care resources . |
| 24 | It provided for a ‘ union of sovereign republics ’ , not necessarily of socialist ones ; the Congress of People 's Deputies , in December , had agreed not to change the name of the state , but there was still some criticism that the world 's first socialist state had somehow disappeared with the promulgation of a union treaty that made no reference to its social character . |
| 25 | The NACAB responses were less strident in tone but contained detailed criticisms of many aspects of the Report , again , with particular reference to its own area of operation . |
| 26 | Where speech is made criminal by direct reference to its contents , the way is opened for those in authority to censor minority or officially deprecated opinions . |
| 27 | It does mean , however , that each chapter has to be judged on its individual merits or — putting the matter more positively — that each can be digested successfully without reference to its companions . |
| 28 | Out of all the many hundreds of 16th- and 17th-century wills that I have studied , his is the only one to include a reference to its writer 's age : its intimation that on 15 November 1622 he was in his 80th year allows 1992 or 1993 to be marked as the 450th anniversary of his birth . |
| 29 | A reference to its dictionary would help it realise that it is unlikely a word would begin with the character ‘ 5″ , but , in all probability should read ‘ Singing ’ . |
| 30 | Also called on member states to detain Iraqi-registered ships entering their ports in violation of sanctions , reminded states of their obligation to freeze Iraqi assets , stated that measures would be considered against a member state whose nationals were found breaking sanctions , and also condemned Iraq 's " grave breaches " of the fourth Geneva convention on the rules of war , a reference to its holding of foreign nationals as a " human shield " at key installations . |