Example sentences of "according to [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Snodgrass they occur in all winged insects but are much modified in the Ephemeroptera and Odonata , presumably because these insects do not flex the wings over the abdomen at rest . |
| 2 | According to criminologists I consulted , doubts remain whether the Act has entirely remedied the situation ( magistrates and police are not always meticulous in determining offenders ' ages ) , but it has certainly alleviated it considerably . |
| 3 | In fact , according to Brown it is virtually impossible to teach a language ; what one can hope to do is to provide a situation where the complex variables which contribute are maximised . |
| 4 | According to Moley what Hollywood had learnt was that ‘ when narrative art ventures on the ideological battlefield , it enters a dark and bloody ground ’ and that the safest bet was ‘ to stay on the broad highway of pure entertainment ’ . |
| 5 | In a psychoanalytic study of the Amazons Bernice Schultz Engle points out that according to tradition they ‘ cared nothing for womanly arts , spent ten months of the year farming , pasturing cattle , and especially in training horses . |
| 6 | Hutchinson seems to have resumed his part in a family transatlantic trading network ; although according to tradition his losses in the great fire of London exceeded £60,000 , he seems to have died a wealthy man . |
| 7 | According to tradition it was brought by the apostle Mark who is said to have written his gospel on the banks of the Nile . |
| 8 | This is 1990s Britain 's worst nightmare , according to scientists who have launched a unique investigation of the terrors that wake us in a cold sweat . |
| 9 | Literature is fiction not because it somehow refuses to acknowledge ‘ reality ’ , but because it is not a priori certain that language functions according to principles which are those , or which are like those , of the phenomenal world . |
| 10 | The Act empowered the Secretary of State to put a limit on the amount if in his opinion the amount proposed to be raised was ‘ excessive ’ according to principles he determined which were to be the same for all authorities falling within the same class . |
| 11 | The expedition which the king led to Scotland in the winter of 1341–2 was unpopular : according to Murimuth he was attended only ‘ by a few knights ’ , and Arundel , Huntingdon , and five other earls declined the invitation to serve . |
| 12 | According to Paul himself , however , in his letter to the Galatians , his reception into the Nazarean Party was rather less than enthusiastic . |
| 13 | Again , according to Escoffier himself a Paris factory , the Maison Fontaine took up the canned tomato industry , the whole department of the Vaucluse started to specialise in the same business , and it was only after the events recorded by him that Italy and America introduced their own versions of canned tomatoes . |
| 14 | It does indeed seem touchingly human in its irrationality , as unegoistic as according to Nietzsche we should all be if we surrendered completely to our drives . |
| 15 | According to Dad he was quite wild — on returning to this country ( he was still hardly twenty ) — not surprising after his experiences . |
| 16 | According to papers we wants to ‘ play football and attack — that is the fun of the game ’ . |
| 17 | According to Honey it 's these little touches that make a big difference . |
| 18 | He did so and , according to students who were present , spoke in amiable and conciliatory terms . |
| 19 | Yet according to Armstrong one can be aware of the heat of some material things , the parts of one 's body , without feeling the heat with anything . |
| 20 | According to Gatfield there is one obvious way of reducing the odds : |
| 21 | In suggesting programmes according to level we have taken account of a range of dimensions of difficulty . |
| 22 | In fact , according to Austin there are more than a thousand of these acts which are performable in English , and unless the hearer or reader recognises which of these is being expressed by the utterances in question he or she has missed the point . |
| 23 | According to Craddock she still visited Marshall despite all his warnings . |
| 24 | Design faults at the Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania would make it impossible for operators to control a nuclear accident , according to engineers who worked on the plant 's construction . |
| 25 | According to Eurotunnel it is £7bn ; the contractors put it at £7.5bn . |
| 26 | So according to Peter we 've no need to do a non-conformance for such as this . |
| 27 | If all goes according to plan he will hold the public sector borrowing requirement to £35 billion in the current year , rising to £50 billion in 1993-94 , but the proportion of gross domestic product should stabilise at no more than 8 per cent , and fall slowly back to around 4 per cent by 1997 — still an alarmingly large figure in the eyes of some City analysts . |
| 28 | If all goes according to plan you should find further details of the study and proposed dates for a first meeting enclosed with this letter . |
| 29 | According to Jim she 's never opened her mouth and said a single thing yet but er |
| 30 | According to Taylor it is the working-class element of the crowd , and not football 's new , middle-class supporters , who have the most developed knowledge of , and commitment to , the club ( i.e. they possess a true ‘ soccer consciousness ’ ) . |