Sentence examples for reference to be from inspiring English sources

"Starting with the existing Lear gave us a frame of reference to be able to build from and saved us a year in terms of schedule," he says.

Many took his reference to be a signal of support to opponents of abortion who contend that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that said abortion was a constitutional right, holds parallels to the Dred Scott ruling.

She has also recently edited and revised what is probably the most scholarly and excellent work of reference to be produced in recent times, The Oxford Companion to English Literature.

On another tack, a couple of competitors submitted clues that referred obliquely to J. B. S. Haldane and his statement that 'The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.' I confess that I didn't know this quotation but even if I had known it I think I would have judged the reference to be a little too specialized for fairness.

After a brief introduction and a general overview of Shakespeare's early career, we have chapters on 17 plays performed, almost without exception, at the Globe Theater, starting with "Julius Caesar," a format that might suggest the book is in fact a collection of introductions -- and the reader could certainly treat it as a reference, to be pulled down from the shelf before launching into a play.

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The reference to being "matchmakers" is deliberate.

It's kind of my reference to being gender fluid.

The original meaning of gay was in reference to being light and carefree.

All of which would be a game of spot-the-reference to be played by record-fondling mouthbreathers (guilty as charged), were it not so expertly and emotively folded together, and were the writing not so strong.

There are other references to be pulled from "Paradise Lost".