Example sentences of "according [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , according to many suppliers , pasta shapes are rapidly increasing in popularity . |
| 2 | According to many local people , the police hold refugees without food or water for a few days , then turn them loose in the desert near the Somali or Ethiopian borders - too far for them to walk back . |
| 3 | But there was the rub , for Ben had , according to many , the most explosive start ever in athletics ' history and being with him at the three-fifths point in the race was , apparently , beyond the powers of the sprinters gathered in the Stadio Olimpico on this hot August day , Lewis included . |
| 4 | According to many legends , caches of treasure are usually guarded from meddlesome mortals by a spirit or god . |
| 5 | The discussions of youth problems on the pages of Zhongguo Qingnian did not offer realistic advice according to many students . |
| 6 | At its core was very bad news : it remains true that the Tobacco Institute of Australia was guilty in 1986 of misleading and deceiving the Australian public about the existence of evidence which might ( according to many ) be reasonably said to prove that passive smoking was harmful . |
| 7 | Its extent expanded and contracted according to many external and internal pressures . |
| 8 | Engineering , which played so central a role in this country 's industrial development , now has little more than a bit part according to many economists and politicians . |
| 9 | According to many interpretations of his work , Marx sees capitalist society as divided into only two classes of any importance : the bourgeoisie and the proletariat . |
| 10 | According to many Marxists then , the positions in the class structure occupied by most routine non-manual workers have been proletarianized . |
| 11 | By finding ways to reduce stress , for instance , according to many practitioners it is possible to look ten years younger , your quality of life will be enhanced and the benefits will also manifest themselves in longevity . |
| 12 | According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ . |
| 13 | Archbishop Wulfstan of York had done his best under Æthelred to rectify social conditions worsened by ravaging , taxation and famine , and produced for the 1018 meeting of Danes and English at Oxford a text " devised according to many good precedents " and intended to be of " advantage in religious and secular matters " which he later used as a basis for his more extensive legal material in Cnut 's name . |
| 14 | The choice , according to such critics , has been either to increase taxes to cover the public spending for the services — which was contrary to the government 's tax-cutting policies — or to reduce the scale of state provision of welfare . |
| 15 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 16 | The corollary to this was that a unit operating according to such principles would have to be trained to arrive on the scene of an operation by every practical method from land , sea or air . |
| 17 | What is mandatory is nothing more or less than what Parliament requires as a precondition of according to such instruments the force of law . |
| 18 | Clearly verbal consciousness is related to past learning , and so will vary considerably according to such factors as class , race and gender . |
| 19 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 20 | There will also be an interest in breaking down the numbers according to such familiar variables as age , sex and socio-economic status , and there will be a curiosity about whether ( and , if so , how ) religious affiliation or observance correlates with other kinds of behaviour . |
| 21 | Even in the so-called ‘ developed ’ societies , which claim ‘ high ’ literacy rates according to various measures , people experience a variety of different forms and meanings of literate and oral communication , according to such aspects of the social context as , for instance , class , gender , age and ethnicity . |
| 22 | Local authorities house people from the waiting-list on the basis of a points system , which varies between different local authorities , points being gained according to such criteria as length of time on the waiting-list , current housing situation , numbers of children , and so on . |
| 23 | The proportion of output given up varied according to such factors as region , land quality and time , some allowance being made for the abundance of the harvest . |
| 24 | That an event is characterized in terms of the interdependent existence of subject and content does not entail that it is not physical according to such a conception of the physical . |
| 25 | The Compostela pilgrimage was , according to such first-hand accounts of it as there are , a robust and pretty indecorous enterprise , but there could be no more placid memento of it than Harambels . |
| 26 | On this basis it will be possible to describe changes in employment patterns , and in the relative importance of different ‘ pathways from work to non-work and of different forms of non-working ( eg , unemployment , disability , retirement ) , according to such factors as previous industry , social class , sex , marital status , health and closeness to ‘ normal ’ retirement age . |
| 27 | 2.2 Prominent among the basic types of phrase used in English ( and many other languages ) we find attributive adjective + noun ( with or without an associated determiner according to such criteria as the " mass " or " count " status of the noun , and other requirements of specific grammars ) . |
| 28 | The question whether that is what the buyer bargained for has to be answered according to such tests as men in the market would apply , leaving more delicate questions of condition , or quality , to be determined under other clauses of the contract or sections of the Act . |
| 29 | That the standard of the Fiji tournament — which according to such a seasoned sevens campaigner as the Scots ' assistant coach , John Jeffrey , reached unprecedented highs — was beyond question . |
| 30 | ‘ According to such law as I know , ’ said Harry loudly and clearly , ‘ it was lawful . |