Example sentences of "be referring to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Julian person we 're referring to is , is a complete and utter crimple |
| 2 | The market that I 'm referring to is in shoes , sizes above UK 11 . |
| 3 | Erm the proposal I 'm referring to is in the view of the county council in the open countryside . |
| 4 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 5 | The quality I 'm referring to was something common enough here in Latin America , but very rare in the land of booze and animal fats , where the women seem to have taken to heart mad Hamlet 's advice to let their honesty admit no discourse to their beauty . |
| 6 | The letter I 'm referring to was from Anne V Ridings . |
| 7 | It is possible that when Gandhi speaks of Religion , what he may be referring to is not an ‘ essence ’ or a ‘ primordial element ’ or a transcendental unity' , but the faith of men which expresses itself in a variety of different forms . |
| 8 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 9 | ‘ Forgive me , my lord , but the matter I am referring to is in the second file . |
| 10 | What I am referring to is elementary structural-functionalist sociology , in which modernization is seen as a process of structural differentiation ( Ausdifferenzierung ) . |
| 11 | The incident I am referring to is the government 's plan to shrink and disband many major regiments throughout Britain . |
| 12 | The type of abortion I am referring to is induced and I believe that the woman should be given the right to be able to choose whether she needs one , rather than certain religious leaders or laws . |
| 13 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 14 | A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population . |
| 15 | The ‘ rights ’ she is referring to are , she would suggest , rights to ‘ innocence ’ , and the ‘ security ’ of moral certainty . |
| 16 | Er yes well that is so this did come through er very very late indeed er in the and the Parish Council of course are in the situation where they have to cover all eventualities and what er Mr is referring to is a suggestion of using a one O six agreement to protect as far as possible the local communities when the tip is erected . |
| 17 | The Bryce he was referring to was the general handyman . |
| 18 | I think the slide that Frank was referring to was the total charge for the year . |
| 19 | I think in fact er , had been doing quite well and the specific point that Frank was referring to was erm , the technology transfer that they did with a mar large chip manufacturer , which probably made a contribution in the second half , a net contribution of about five million dollars and that offset some of the weakness in , in other parts of Camco 's business in the last quarter of the year . |
| 20 | Can I just make the point of clarification in what said there , that as far as staffing additional works spread through for example we are assuming that staff costs are within the figures you are looking at and the the work that was referring to was was after you made your decision to will need to take some element of that cost into the start of the budget there is no staff figures that would occur after you 've formalised this budget we are not aware of so there there will be . |
| 21 | But what Jesus was referring to was not the material kingdom , but the spiritual kingdom . |