Example sentences of "i refer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refer to this part of my life as my grey period . |
| 2 | I refer to this significant dispute in passing , without engaging in it , except to say that feminists are divided on whether they want to establish a countercanon or extend the existing one . |
| 3 | Sir : I refer to Peter Wilby 's Viewpoint ( 29 September ) . |
| 4 | Sir : I refer to the dropping of charges against the man accused of raping a mentally handicapped girl on the grounds she was not of fit mind to answer questions and give evidence ( 4 October ) . |
| 5 | I refer to would-be parliamentary candidates , Bordes-type aspirants with lunging bosoms and other improbable specimens , who seek to board the Candidates ' List , and in due course may turn up before our selection committees . |
| 6 | I refer to the federal corollary . |
| 7 | I refer to Julia Kristeva 's somewhat obscure remarks about ‘ the role that the pervert , with his invincible belief in the maternal phallus and his obstinate refusal to recognise the existence of the other sex , has been able to play in anti-semitism and the totalitarian movements that embrace it , . |
| 8 | The desire to create a pseudo-history of the movement 's afterlife may be good for business , and may have provided extra material for the book ( I refer to the Boston text , see pp. 10–13 ) but it is not in keeping with the purer aims of the Situationists outlined elsewhere in these and other texts . |
| 9 | I refer to opera-going : something that has become not merely trendy but deep-rootedly popular . |
| 10 | Having been a subscriber from your first issue , I find myself already amazed at how often I refer to my various back numbers . |
| 11 | I refer to Spitting Image ( ITV ) , which last time round was held in check until the polls had safely closed , but this time was allowed an outing on Wednesday while the electorate were still technically making up their minds . |
| 12 | When ‘ neutral ’ is used in this sense I refer to it as by-product neutrality , for here neutrality may well be an accidental by-product of the agent 's action and not its intended outcome . |
| 13 | I refer to your fax of 17 April , in which you provide details of the type of research you propose to do for which you need an electronic dictionary tape . |
| 14 | I refer to my letter to EMI of 5 June ( copy attached ) and my request for permission for Oxford University Press to use certain tracks in a non-broadcast educational video entitled Project Video . |
| 15 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 16 | ( I refer to your contract of 30 March 1987 , clause 3 , for A Weekend Away and A Week by the Sea and of 17 June 1988 , clause 1.1 c ) , for Mystery Tour . ) |
| 17 | ( I refer to your contract of 30 March 1987 , clause 3 , for A Weekend Away and A Week by the Sea and of 17 June 1988 , clause 1.1 c ) , for Mystery Tour . ) |
| 18 | I refer to things such as good accent and command of language , general knowledge on wide-ranging topics such as falconing or newt-mating — attributes none of which my father could have boasted . |
| 19 | I refer to the ordinary working people of Britain . |
| 20 | When I refer to ‘ large quantities ’ I mean only that they are large in comparison with the amount of other types of bait one would normally use , i.e. 1lb of tares represents many thousands of particles , whereas 1lb of groundbait is a small amount . |
| 21 | The Covenanting pictures of Sir George Harvey are the very near realization of that which I refer to . |
| 22 | I refer to the children closer and closer to the margins of predictable deviation — the hyperactive youngster with emotional problems , which brings autism to the edge of the teacher 's diagnosis ; the child , otherwise quick-witted , who has massively disabling short-term memory and a confusion in decoding letters : what some would call dyslexia ; the child whose spatial intelligence is exceptionally and marvellously out of line with the celebratory rites of the school community , who fails in conventional school work . |
| 23 | When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death . |
| 24 | I should make it clear that I am drawing on notions of an idealised business environment when I refer to unambiguous communication being the motive power which occasions accountability . |
| 25 | I refer to Professor Frank Tipler 's arguments ( ’ Are we alone in our galaxy ? ’ vol 96 , p 33 ) against the possibility of existence of extraterrestrial intelligent being . |
| 26 | The habitat I refer to , as you may have guessed , is the garden . |
| 27 | I refer to Dr Barney Clark , a dentist , who died in the University of Utah Medical Center at the end of March , 122 distressful days after being fitted with an artificial heart . |
| 28 | I refer to the rapid decline of the use of walnut in English furniture making in the first half of the 18th century . |
| 29 | I refer to the caption accompanying ‘ Let them live in mud ’ , by Anil Agarwal in your 16 December issue — ‘ Half a world away , in New Mexico , mud bricks are the plaything of the rich ’ ( p 740 ) and the description in the review by Colin Moorcraft in your 13 January issue of the exhibition ‘ Down to earth ’ by Jean Dethier , ‘ encompassing all manner of earth buildings from … to the trendy latter day eco-huts of New Mexico ’ ( p 110 ) . |
| 30 | I refer to information regarding school buildings and equipment , to relevant financial information , to details of the type , number , education and training of teachers in an area , to languages understood and spoken , to the availability or scarcity of local resources . |