Example sentences of "according to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 ’ . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | In some countries ( Israel , Portugal and Spain ) seats are filled by candidates according to the order in which they are nominated by the party . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 ) . |
9 | According to the Home Office this practice is ‘ frowned upon ’ , but it is not illegal . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | GERMAN interest rates will fall below 8 p.c. this year , according to the head of the country 's second largest bank . |
14 | 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 … |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | * 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 . |
18 | Mr Threlfall said that according to the service 's records the response time to the incident had been 24 minutes . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Pollution in industrial areas of China is resulting in widespread health problems , according to the country 's National Institute of Environmental Health and Engineering . |
22 | Australia has the world 's highest per capita rates of greenhouse gas emissions , according to the country 's Bureau of Statistics . |
23 | The poaching of elephants and the illegal trading of ivory is on the increase in Tanzania , according to the country 's wildlife department . |
24 | 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 ; |
25 | 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 ) . |
26 | These new procedures were drawn up by the company itself , according to the council 's senior counsel . |
27 | 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 ’ ) . |
28 | According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders , 305,000 borrowers were more than six months in arrears with mortgage repayments . |
29 | According to the Council Regulations agreed by transport ministers on 22 June 1992 , total free trade in air services between and within countries must wait until 1997 ; only then will it be possible for airlines to operate freely within particular countries , the so-called ‘ cabotage ’ rights . |
30 | We know that more than 10 million people in Britain are low paid according to the Council of Europe 's decency threshold . |