Example sentences of "accord to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Identify ‘ problems ’ for study according to learners ' current ward allocation . |
| 2 | It is understood that gangs of up to young people have been roaming Newtownards , and surrounding areas , making local people 's lives ‘ a misery ’ , according to councillors . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | THE European Commission is a greater threat to the Lake District 's native hill sheep , the Herdwick , than a cruel winter on the high fells ever could be , according to farmers in the area . |
| 5 | It is about the same as we can anticipate in the next century , on the basis of currently predicted rates of greenhouse warming , according to scientists like Tom Wigley , Director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia . |
| 6 | According to scientists at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory , the proposals for the centre have surfaced at a good time . |
| 7 | SPACELAB , Europe 's first major voyage aboard America 's space shuttle , will probably hobble through its paces at less than full capacity , according to scientists involved in the project and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration . |
| 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 | Nitrous oxide , or laughing gas , appears to reduce the chances of conceiving by more than half , according to scientists at the National Institute of Dental Research in the United States . |
| 10 | MARRIAGE may be made in heaven but divorce is determined by your genes , according to scientists . |
| 11 | According to scientists at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences , the technique is the first in the world to be tailor-made to the requirements of developing countries . |
| 12 | Coral reefs in southeast Asia and the Pacific are being rapidly destroyed , according to scientists from the University of Guam 's marine laboratory . |
| 13 | Data gathered from thousands of locations on land and sea by the Meteorological Office and the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University shows a steady rise over the last eight years , but according to scientists , it is too early to attribute this to the build up of greenhouse gases . |
| 14 | The huge oil spills off Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the burning of oil wells in Kuwait during the Gulf War in early 1991 did less damage to the marine environment than had been feared , according to scientists . |
| 15 | The effects of global warming have been fairly benign so far , according to scientists in the USA , with most of the temperature rise taking place at night and in the winter and spring . |
| 16 | The build-up of ozone-destroying chemicals has slowed substantially and may halt by the end of the century , according to scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . |
| 17 | Contaminated soils can be cleaned by plants that take up metals as nutrients , a process known as green remediation , according to scientists from the Institute of Arable Crops Research . |
| 18 | Two solicitors challenged this decision but the House of Lords held that since , in administering the scheme , the Society was acting in a public capacity in the interests of all solicitors and members of the public who employed them , the legality of its decision was to be judged according to principles of public law , not private law ; and so judged , what the Society had done was a proper use of its statutory powers . |
| 19 | They operate according to principles of an entirely different kind from those of logical , rational thought processes . |
| 20 | Soon he was absorbed in the workings of the pistol , which was designed according to principles that were new to him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Notably , the Northcote-Trevelyan reforms helped to root out political patronage and corruption in the state bureaucracy in the second half of the nineteenth century , and to establish a public administration that operated according to principles of professionalism and the ethos of ‘ public service ’ . |
| 24 | Make the chapatis according to directions and keep warm . |
| 25 | It will be interesting to see if the same thing will happen in Japan ; the Japanese manufacturers belief in the preference of the client for service over a cheaper product is already being tested in the marketplace — to their chagrin , according to contacts within the Japanese manufacturers . |
| 26 | Free legal and survey fees come top of the list , according to findings by Research Associates Stone . |
| 27 | They were still within the normal range of intelligence , however , and some babies born as much as 12 weeks early end up at the top of the class 10 years later , according to findings announced by Dr Leonora Harding , of Aberdeen University , to the British Psychological Society . |
| 28 | Forty-four of the world 's 53 subspecies of Asian hornbills are vulnerable to , or directly facing , extinction because of the loss of their forest habitat , principally due to logging , according to findings presented to a conference in Singapore . |
| 29 | According to Articles 52–54 of the Treaty of Rome , all nationals may live and work and conduct their business freely in any of the member states . |
| 30 | THE £13.5bn takeover battle for BAT affected the reputations and fees of all the City 's big merchant banks in the first nine months of 1989 , according to figures announced yesterday by the magazine Acquisitions Monthly . |