Example sentences of "and according [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages of traditional materials are obvious : they permit an individual to build his own house ; involve less capital ; can be built in greater variety and according to each housebuilder 's choice ; and , unlike a high-rise building , do not need expensive construction materials like cement and steel . |
| 2 | The homosexual is implicated all ways round , and according to some fairly crude psychoanalytic binaries . |
| 3 | In 1988 , 30–40 Spanish vessels were operating out of Algeciras and Almeria , and according to some estimates , as many as 800 Italian and French drift-net vessels , with a total net length exceeding 15,000 km ( about 10,000 miles ) , were fishing in the Mediterranean . |
| 4 | Bull had been shot dead in Brussels on March 22 , 1990 , and according to some reports Mossad , the Israeli secret service , had been involved in the assassination . |
| 5 | As the cortege passed Srinagar 's Islamia College precinct , Indian security forces opened fire on the mourners , killing at least 20 people on the spot ; a further 27 people were subsequently killed , and according to some reports the death toll had reached 100 by the end of the day . |
| 6 | The ambiguously worded agreement effectively permitted the involuntary repatriation of Vietnamese " boat people " who had been screened out as " economic migrants " , by providing for the repatriation of those who " while not volunteering to return , are nevertheless not opposed to going back " and according to some officials thereby created a fresh category of " acquiescent non-volunteers " . |
| 7 | In Britain , the role of fragmented political authority in muddying the formation of objectives is illustrated by conflicts within the present Conservative government over BR 's electrification plans , with close advisers of the Prime Minister , and according to some accounts the Treasury , undermining the efforts of the Department of Transport to secure cabinet approval . |
| 8 | Now modal tag is one for seeking agreement whereas an effective tag is one that shows concern to the addressee and according to this study , if you looked and the sheer number of tags , women did use more tags than men , but in actual fact women used a higher proportion of the effective tags than men did . |