Example sentences of "accord [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Christian MPs close to General Michel Aoun wanted to talk first about a Syrian withdrawal , in according with the general 's instructions .
2 Here the government responds to market imperfections in proportions according with the extent of imperfection .
3 There 's no real numerical significance , it 's not even an exact number of megabytes of memory , but it does allow you to achieve a 115 line screen at 60 levels of grey which , according to the greylevel versus screen value chart that we use seems to be a critical point .
4 In one case there was some tension between a client 's spouse and the support worker because , according to the development officer , ‘ she was trying to take over ’ .
5 According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) .
6 But according to the Development Set , what is needed is not equitable distribution of the material resources between and within nations — no siree , nothing so mundane as that .
7 In some countries ( Israel , Portugal and Spain ) seats are filled by candidates according to the order in which they are nominated by the party .
8 At the beginning of the line , the aircraft all start from the same common stock , but as they progress the goodies are added or not added according to the order .
9 He recorded the seven pieces out of order , however , and I rather wish that the transfer engineers had re-grouped the numbers according to the order of the score .
10 He was " priest … according to the order of Melchizedek " ( Psalm 110 : 4 ) , and vicar of Him who was " king of kings and lord of lords " ( Revelation 19 : 16 ) .
11 According to the Home Office this practice is ‘ frowned upon ’ , but it is not illegal .
12 According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year .
13 He quotes Kettle ( 1982 ) who argued that according to the Home Office , 50 per cent of the population of Ashford remand centre were black , and for Brixton and Aylesbury prisons , remand prisoners were between 25 per cent and 35 per cent black .
14 According to the head of the party 's Moscow branch , it was a late-night row in the party 's Politburo that finally persuaded Mr Gorbachev last autumn to ditch the Shatalin plan .
15 GERMAN interest rates will fall below 8 p.c. this year , according to the head of the country 's second largest bank .
16 Moreover , the curriculum was augmented by at least one thing directly attributable to the project , and this was the development of study skills , which according to the head was : one spin-off effect that I did n't envisage , I did n't realise that would come so quickly afterwards …
17 According to the head of the Jordanian delegation , Abdul Salam Majali , the two sides remained divided over the settlements issue and the interpretation of UN Resolution 242 .
18 According to the head of Berlin 's Radiation Measurement Office , Udo Morfeld , the pollution has not created as big a problem as it could have because the clay soil has slowed down the seepage of radioactive material into the groundwater .
19 * Western countries need to provide at least another £4.1 billion to make former Soviet-bloc pressurized water reactors safe , according to the head of the German Siemens group energy division .
20 Mr Threlfall said that according to the service 's records the response time to the incident had been 24 minutes .
21 MORE than a million people in southern Ethiopia are at risk of starvation in a famine that has killed 5,000 in five months , according to the country 's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission .
22 Although it said that he would be ‘ interrogated and tried according to the country 's law ’ , to AI 's knowledge no formal charges have been brought against him in court .
23 Pollution in industrial areas of China is resulting in widespread health problems , according to the country 's National Institute of Environmental Health and Engineering .
24 Australia has the world 's highest per capita rates of greenhouse gas emissions , according to the country 's Bureau of Statistics .
25 The poaching of elephants and the illegal trading of ivory is on the increase in Tanzania , according to the country 's wildlife department .
26 According to the council , the garden was indeed large but much of it was paved ; the property was in an urban area where the speed limit was 30mph ; the shops were located 700 yards from the property ;
27 According to the Council for the Protection of Rural England , some 120,000 miles of hedgerow have been lost since 1947 and this accelerated during the 1980s and there is no evidence that this rate of loss has slowed down ( in spite of the continued popularity of fox hunting ) .
28 These new procedures were drawn up by the company itself , according to the council 's senior counsel .
29 According to the Council 's general programme for the abolition of restrictions on freedom of establishment ( Official Journal , English Special Edition , Second Series IX , p. 7 ) , ‘ establishment ’ is defined in terms of ‘ installation en vue d'exercer une activité non salariée sur le territoire d'un Etat membre ’ ( rendered in English as ‘ [ persons wishing ] to establish themselves in order to pursue activities as self-employed persons in a member state ’ ) .
30 According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders , 305,000 borrowers were more than six months in arrears with mortgage repayments .
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