Collocations withreference
These are words often used in combination withreference.
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biblical reference
I think that is a biblical reference, but do not ask me for the quote.
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bibliographic reference
The corrected bibliographic reference is repeated below.
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bibliographical reference
Of course, bibliographical references are useful but if they had been collected together in a comprehensive bibliography, repetitions could have been avoided.
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brief reference
It is important, however, to make brief reference to the issue and illuminate its links with the phenomenon explored here.
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casual reference
But it is what may be termed the 'missing links', the relationships doomed to silence or to casual reference, that most concern us here.
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cited reference
Given as it appears in the cited reference(s).
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constant reference
Indeed, in his extremely diverse and eclectic output, relatively straight-ahead jazz appears as the point of departure and constant reference.
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cultural reference
Systems of belief are, he argues, only ' true ' within the language and cultural reference-points of those who hold them.
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derogatory reference
I should like to draw attention to his derogatory reference to the total of investments in this country.
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direct reference
For the justification of standards does not make essential and direct reference to the beings themselves.
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explicit reference to
Recent federal initiatives have contained explicit reference to the resilience paradigm as an effective framework for developing and guiding interventions.
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fleeting reference
However, this argument is unsatisfactory, given the authors' fleeting reference to it and lack of additional information detailing what laboratory tests were conducted.
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for ease of reference
I have divided them into categories according to the sort of information they supply, and numbered the entries for ease of reference.
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for future reference
Although the proof of this fact is nearly trivial, it is still worthwhile to record it separately for future reference.
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frequent reference
We will motivate our construction by making frequent reference to that proof.
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historical reference
This is a clear, well-made, solid work of historical reference, worthy but inescapably somewhat dull.
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indirect reference
The distinction between direct reference, as given by environmental sounds, and indirect reference, provided by what he calls musical sounds, is particularly illuminating.
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inertial reference
An inertial reference system is considered to express these magnitudes.
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intertextual reference
There is, then, in nineteenth-century mathematics texts a variety of forms of intertextual reference that is absent in their twentiethcentury counterparts.
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invaluable reference
It will prove an invaluable reference book to students talking environmental courses, and should find a place in all larger geological and zoological libraries.
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known reference
Another solution to the problem is to determine the absolute locations of both parts with respect to a known reference frame.
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literary reference
With this book, to use another far-fetched literary reference, we are truly in search of lost time.
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numerous references
The serious shortage of paper prevents our distributing to the public at home the numerous reference booklets which have been prepared for circulation overseas.
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oblique reference
This local legislator's oblique reference to public order was not just rhetoric.
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occasional reference
Much of this will be achieved through appropriate questioning, with occasional reference, preferably by demonstration, to compositions by other composers who have explored similar ideas.
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passing reference
This book describes how current diagnostic approaches in children are based on adult criteria for schizophrenia with only a passing reference to developmental issues.
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reference laboratory
The reference laboratory cut-offs were used to re-classify qualitatively the standardized quantitative results as negative, equivocal or positive.
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reference voltage
On the discharge cycle, the voltage across the dermal layer and sensing element is compared against a reference voltage in order to calculate the capacitance.
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repeated reference
Repeated reference to the saint leads the editor to infer that this notice was drawn up at the abbey.
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standard reference
This will be a standard reference with a secure place on this reviewer's shelf of critical, often-used research classics.
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subtle reference
The phrase is a subtle reference to the notion of one's brain becoming waste.
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symbolic reference
The women prepare the holiday for the men, who conduct the service without any symbolic reference to them.
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vague reference
There is one on housing containing a vague reference to improving conditions.
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virtual reference
As in the previous subsections, the trajectory tracking problem is formulated in tracking a virtual reference at a given velocity, namely that the reference curve is some function of time.
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visual reference
According to this view one tends to perceive selfmotion primarily with respect to a visual reference frame.
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