Sentence examples for reference to a physical from inspiring English sources

That's the only reference to a physical description in the story.

That's the only reference to a physical description in the story, and yet we see the couple and know them by their tones of voice, with not one adverb in sight.

"The way that this case is put is that, on this occasion, Mr Terry completely lost his cool and made an inappropriate remark making reference to a physical characteristic of Mr Ferdinand, namely his colour, in response to words conceded to have been repeated taunts and insults referring to his alleged affair with Mr (Wayne Bridgess' partner".

This set of items was selected following the criteria of the linguistic tradition, whereby action verbs refer to physical acts, and non action verbs (state/psychological verbs) expressed mental processes with no reference to a physical object [63], [64].

Letters of invitation, which made reference to a physical examination as a component of the study, were forwarded to potential participants and a nurse followed with a phone call to schedule an appointment within 7 days.

In doing so they distinguished their theories from those brands of physical atomism that were in the tradition of mechanical or Newtonian atomism and which sought to explain phenomena in general, and chemistry in particular, by reference to a few physical properties of atoms.

There was no policy on physical exercise that was found other than a reference to a policy on physical education in schools (28).

The title of the new HBO Sunday-night series "Hung" isn't meant to be a double entendre of the kind that induces snickers — it's straightforward descriptive slang, a reference to the physical endowments of the show's main character, Ray Drecker Thomas Janee).

Functional connectivity refers to the arbitrary relationships that might exist between the co-varying activity of distinct and often well-separated neuronal populations, without any reference to the physical connections or an underlying causal model, during a specific condition.

In addition, we make a small reference to the physical and chemical methods that are used for the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) as well as to some of the surface functionalization techniques that are currently used and that aim at improving the biological-related properties of the MNPs.

High physical workload, the reference to Light physical workload, is a well-established predictor of low return-to-work [ 26, 30, 34, 37], but was non-predictive in our study.