Example sentences of "according to john " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to John Earle , writing in 1628 , the inn was a superior establishment to the alehouses and was ‘ a degree or ( if you will ) a pair of stairs above an alehouse , where men are drunk with more credit and apology ’ . |
| 2 | According to John Wriglesworth , analyst with UBS-Phillips & Drew : ‘ Just as 1989 was the year of the Abbey National flotation , 1990 will be the year of the building society takeover . |
| 3 | Furniture was the focus of interest but , according to John Hill , from Jeremy of the King 's Road , London , the Americans did not just want good examples of standard items , they wanted something different , with a gimmick or original style . |
| 4 | ACCORDING to John Popham , Radio Nottingham 's commentary for the recent Forest game at Manchester City revealed that one player had elbowed another in the face ‘ quite unnecessarily ’ . |
| 5 | According to John Pike , an analyst with the Federation of American Scientists , there are six optical-reconnaissance satellites in the ‘ Keyhole ’ series currently thought to be in orbit . |
| 6 | Some six-row barleys have been cut on light land south of Worcester , but little else has come under the knife , according to John Sturt of Midland Shires Farmers . |
| 7 | According to John Charcol , the mortgage broker , one or two schemes are still available , offering mortgages at a fixed rate of under 10 per cent . |
| 8 | Prices have remained relatively stable and have increased by about 10 per cent a year , according to John Morton Morris of Hazlitt Gooden and Fox . |
| 9 | According to John Hume , director of human resources for Glaxo Group Research , more than 60 mothers have opted to use the childminding initiative since it was introduced a year ago . |
| 10 | According to John Rogers , who knew Miller , a serious difference of opinion over the publication of some of the Society 's proceedings caused the break-up and , he says , ‘ the opponents of the publication demanded their papers from Miller , who immediately gave them up , having , however , with his usual foresight , taken a copy of each , otherwise their valuable contents would most likely have been lost to the world . ’ |
| 11 | In reality ‘ he had a firm business-like approach to running the Cabinet ’ , according to John Barnes and Anthony Seldon . |
| 12 | The telephone companies may have ‘ purchased something that does n't exist ’ , according to John Kessler , a consultant in Newport , Rhode Island . |
| 13 | Not according to John Palmer , Richard Udry and Naomi Morris at the Population Center of the University of Carolina ( Human Biology , vol 54 , p111 ) . |
| 14 | Helping small technology based firms is very much in the banks own interests , according to John Kirkwood , adviser on small businesses at Lloyds Bank . |
| 15 | The aim of the program , according to John Wooton , the consultant who developed it , is to check for inconsistencies and errors in the national signpost network . |
| 16 | According to John Dunster , then a scientist with the AEA and now chairman of the NRPB , the main radioactive cloud travelled south-east across most of England and on over Europe . |
| 17 | On his return to Scotland , Garvine settled in Ayr where he practised as a doctor and , according to John Strawhorn 's History of Ayr , he was elected Provost of the town for a record 14 terms between 1724 and 1755 . |
| 18 | ‘ The speakers look like giant mushrooms , ’ according to John Bamford , editor of Hi-Fi Choice . |
| 19 | According to John Webster , head of the department of animal husbandry at Bristol University , new cages of this sort would cost twice as much as existing ones , and would add one-third to the price of eggs at the farm gate . |
| 20 | According to John and Marie , who finally married him and came to Baldersdale when she was twenty , Hannah played no part in the courtship rituals of Baldersdale . |
| 21 | At this time there were nine in the housegroup and according to John they were a motley bunch . |
| 22 | Certainly , according to John Ostrom , dinosaurs themselves showed fossil evidence of mammalian or bird-like behavioural patterns , especially , as we have seen , from footprints suggesting group activity . |
| 23 | A&R departments habitually shadow each other according to John Giacobbi , former BMG lawyer and now head of Entertainment Law Associates . |
| 24 | ’ According to John Simon , the casting of Hoffman ‘ strikes me as ill-advised and damaging … |
| 25 | According to John Landy of Lotus Communications , next year this will be extended to provide two-way wireless transmission of text . |
| 26 | Jesus was therefore , according to John , dead and buried before the Passover day began . |
| 27 | Linguists today would consider this question a silly and misguided one ; while according to John Lyons , author of a wide-ranging introductory reference text , gender often reflects some kind of semantic criterion , he insists that the crucial factor is ‘ not necessarily sex ’ . |
| 28 | According to John Dziak , a specialist in the US Department of Defense , |
| 29 | According to John Bridges of EIT 's stockbrokers Keith Bayley Rogers the new administrators appointed by the Court , have the support of 75% of the company 's creditors which , it is hoped , will soon lead to the settlement of the creditors voluntary arrangement . |
| 30 | A number of authorities had reorganised before the reforms leading to some difficulties , according to John Findlay , social services officer of NALGO . |