Example sentences of "according to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was the day to do it the Women of the North lunch in Harrogate , like the Woman of the Year in London ‘ only much friendlier and more fun ’ according to a lady who 'd been to both . |
| 2 | English is finished as a common language , but that 's only according to a Frenchman . |
| 3 | The worldwide semiconductor industry is expected to reach $71,900m by the end of 1993 and grow to $96,000m by 1996 , according to a forecast prepared by World Semiconductor Trade Statistics Inc for the San Jose-based Semiconductor Industry Association . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's an island not far from here that has just two thousand inhabitants , and last year , Nick , according to a banker I sometimes fly to Miami , those two thousand dirt poor and unemployed islanders deposited 24.3 million dollars in the one and only bank on their impoverished little island . ’ |
| 5 | KYLIE MINOGUE Enjoy Yourself ( PWL Records HF9 ) According to a poll in the magazine Just 17 , Kylie Minogue is the person most young girls in Britain would like to be . |
| 6 | Labour has doubled its lead over the Conservatives to 6 per cent in the past month , according to a poll of polls conducted for the BBC programme Newsnight . |
| 7 | The panel of 175 distinguished authors , scholars , broadcasters and public figures regards correct usage as no longer worth fighting for and trivial , according to a poll of its views to be published on January 8 . |
| 8 | Labour 's vote is holding up in Scotland while Tory support is at its lowest level since the campaign started , according to a poll conducted for Scotland on Sunday . |
| 9 | Financial markets will suffer sharp setbacks if Labour is victorious , according to a poll of 43 dealers by Reuters , the financial information and news agency company . |
| 10 | They have all been voted the most boring people in America , according to a poll in Mademoiselle magazine . |
| 11 | According to a poll published on May 21st , 54% of the French think Mr Balladur would make a ‘ good president ’ . |
| 12 | According to a poll in early 1991 Yel'tsin was already the most important Russian leader of the twentieth century , ahead of Lenin , Bukharin and ( a long way behind but with a similar rating ) Gorbachev and Trotsky . |
| 13 | By midsummer 1992 , according to a poll carried out for the newspaper The European , only in three of the twelve countries was there support for the Maastricht Treaty of over 50 per cent . |
| 14 | Some 39 per cent of the population of Slovakia is opposed to the continued construction of nuclear power plants in the republic , according to a poll conducted by the Slovak Academy of Sciences ; 31 percent of respondents were in favour of construction , while 30 percent had no view . |
| 15 | Three-quarters of Scotland 's top companies believe the Government has no effective economic policy and the same proportion believe Mr Lamont should not stay as Chancellor , according to a poll by the accountancy firm Pannell Kerr Forster and BBC TV in Scotland . |
| 16 | Nearly 90 per cent of the population is unaware of the implications of the Community Care Act , according to a poll published this week . |
| 17 | Drude attempted to depict the relative abundance of each species in an area according to a ranking system with categories ranging from ‘ social ’ ( where a single species formed an overall mass ) down to ‘ scarce ’ . |
| 18 | According to a church advisory committee it was ’ too ordered for a rural churchyard . ’ |
| 19 | A national debate in the General Synod about the ordination of women is the work of the devil , according to a Church of England vicar . |
| 20 | Though not strictly competitive , the selection of schools inevitably involves comparisons according to a range of formal and informal criteria , and since funds have until recently always been less than sufficient to serve all deserving cases , an element of competition is inescapable . |
| 21 | In addition to sex-based inequalities in income and household resources , older women , in general , are more disadvantaged than men according to a range of other indicators of deprivation . |
| 22 | In addition it was decided to calculate NPVs for further investment in the hypothetical product for each year according to a range of assumptions about the initial market share held — shares from 10 to 90 per cent , with separate calculations for each 10 per cent . |
| 23 | MARIS OTTER , once the most popular of malting barleys , continues to decline according to a survey . |
| 24 | Top pay increased by an average of 17.8 per cent , according to a survey and league table published yesterday by Charterhouse , the merchant bank . |
| 25 | One person in three would like blasphemy scrapped as an offence — but an equal proportion want it extended to cover all religions , not just Christianity , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 26 | WENSLEYDALE , better known for its cheese than its housing problems , is facing a serious shortage of houses which is forcing young people to move away from one of the most picturesque parts of the Yorkshire Dales , according to a survey published this week . |
| 27 | THE BRITISH teenager is happy at home and one in three do not want to leave the parental nest ever , according to a survey carried out by The Indy this week . |
| 28 | RIOT policemen are suffering from bad backs caused by hours sitting in vans , according to a survey . |
| 29 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 30 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |