Example sentences of "according to [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It alienated world opinion , particularly in the Third World ; it was very expensive ( according to figures made public in 1989 , the cost was about 5 billion rubles annually ) ; and it was very costly in terms of human life ( according to figures again made public in 1989 , nearly 14,000 Soviet servicemen lost their lives in the course of the war , more than 11,000 of them in combat ) . |
| 2 | Thefts of and from vehicles are up by over a third according to figures just revealed . |
| 3 | THE amount of working time lost in Britain through disputes and stoppages has fallen dramatically , according to figures out yesterday . |
| 4 | Waste management group Attwoods is increasing business despite less waste from the recession-stricken UK construction industry and lower demand for its quarry products , according to figures out yesterday . |
| 5 | UNILEVER , provider of such basic items as washing powder and margarine , continued to show its resilience to recession in the third quarter of the year , according to figures out yesterday . |
| 6 | If everything had gone according to plan then Joe was well and truly out of the picture , and he , Michael , had the perfect alibi . |
| 7 | Thus , although trade with the Soviet Union would enable Latin Americans to benefit from lower prices and improved credit terms , to conserve scarce foreign exchange and , according to opinions recently expressed in Latin America , to receive better guarantees and local servicing , it is still generally the case that both public and private sector companies prefer to deal with the West . |
| 8 | According to statistics soon to be published by the UN , the average number of children per mother in Bangladesh has fallen from 6.7 in 1975 to 4.7 now , and that of Kenya from 8.1 to 6.3 . |
| 9 | Such a move would force a re-appraisal of ageist assumptions and encourage more positive attitudes which judge individual ability according to performance rather than chronological age . |
| 10 | For that reason alone , according to sources here , Mr Ortega 's summit game plan could come to naught , leaving the Sandinistas to fight an election and a war , and the peace process close to collapse . |
| 11 | According to sources here , unless significant , reciprocal Chinese gestures are forthcoming , demands for permanent economic sanctions against Beijing are likely to gain momentum . |
| 12 | And company cars are to be taxed according to price instead of engine size . |
| 13 | According to reports nearly 50 per cent of Spain 's 36,736 prisoners were believed to have some form of addiction and just under 25 per cent were said to be HIV positive . |
| 14 | However , the areas they inherit will have been developed according to policies very different from those supported by the local council , which is after all the elected body . |
| 15 | A simple approach to the diversity of tundra communities is to classify them as dry , moist or wet , according to dampness underfoot . |
| 16 | She found herself again in Dunbar castle where , according to stories later defensively circulated by Mary herself , Bothwell raped her and she had to agree to marry him . |
| 17 | According to India Today of Dec. 31 a total of 3,560 people had been killed in Punjab between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 , 1990 . |
| 18 | A new tax could be levied on UK industry to pay for cleaning up contaminated land , according to proposals currently being considered by the Department of the Environment . |
| 19 | According to Philby later , the FBI were still very much off the scent . |
| 20 | According to chitchat out at the recent SunWorld Expo in California , initial versions of the 32-bit superscalar part are expected produce 100 SPECmarks , and if everything goes well , then it 'll reportedly be closer to the 200 SPECmark range . |
| 21 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 22 | According to Acquisitions Monthly , Linklaters & Paines topped the M&A table in 1989 by advising on £31.5 billion ( $50 billion ) of bids . |
| 23 | According to Acquisitions Monthly , Morgan Grenfell advised on five deals in the first quarter — including Redland on its takeover battle with Steetley . |
| 24 | More recently , tests have been made to check that orbits calculated according to GR simultaneously fit the planetary orbital data from a wide range of measurements ( Section 8.4 ) . |
| 25 | So , according to Marwan anyway , underneath that long , black cloak was a shift . |
| 26 | Oh well we 've been walking when we 've gone into town but I mean just between you and me but when I got home Bev said pop into town I 've got a parcel to post and I said well I ca n't I said because according to Des well nothing happened |
| 27 | Interviewed on Dec. 28 , central committee secretary Yegor Stroyev advocated changes to official policy on grain production in order to end the need for imports ( 36,000,000 tonnes in 1989 ) : farmers wanted better prices , varying according to quality rather than region . |
| 28 | According to paper like , they were right like at Southampton to get a result ! |
| 29 | As in the case of housing , local councils find it more difficult to operate a service according to need rather than demand . |
| 30 | Thus , during the late 1940s , five of every six newly-built dwellings were council houses or flats and they were allocated according to need rather than according to income . |