Example sentences of "according to [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 SITRATERCO had originally demanded a 60 per wage increase but , according to its general secretary Nicolas Rivera , it accepted a government-mediated offer of 25 per cent following the Army 's intervention " to protect the lives of our members " .
2 According to its standard spending assessment , Manchester needs 69 per cent .
3 In the 1950s and 60s he took over or formed a number of firms — Sun Resta Ltd , Multi Resta Ltd , Sleepy Valley Ltd etc , and one , Multi Spring Ltd in Mitcham Surrey , which according to its headed note paper are ‘ contractors to HM Government ’ .
4 In September last year , President Ershad set up a national committee which , according to its own press release , intends to ‘ restore honour and dignity to the tribal peoples ’ by withdrawing the army , banning further immigration and returning the land which had been ‘ illegally and fraudulently ’ seized .
5 According to its own market forecast charts , Data General Corp 's next-generation Motorola Inc 88110-based AViiONs will deliver from 200 MIPS to 800 MIPS , retail from between $200,000 and $350,000 and are due to arrive by next spring .
6 Touche believes the balance sheet treatment of capitalising expenditure on players ' registrations as an intangible asset has commercial logic , but does not favour revaluing players ' registrations in the accounts according to their current market worth .
7 Instead of all the securities forming an opportunity set they are now ranged along the security market line according to their individual beta values .
8 So presumably , other creatures are simply talking and communicating about the world according to their particular mind configurations .
9 Finally , a number of quantitative analyses are carried out , including a variable rule analysis of the probability of speakers using one variant or the other , according to their linguistic market indices ( cf. 5.3.2 ) .
10 Within any major class characterized on the basis of its gating properties subclasses can be defined according to their ionic selectivity , but also according to their er pharmacological properties , and especially as we 'll see in a second , according to their single channel conductance .
11 Although , as we have noted , women are much less likely than men to select back variants of /a/ , this generally lower level of use does not prevent individual women from varying their realization of /a/ , within the female norms , according to their social network structure .
12 It was then the heyday of ‘ stimulus-response ’ theories of animal behaviour , according to which all behaviour patterns are learned responses to associated stimuli .
13 However , according to our first prevalence study , it was those areas characterised by the greatest levels of social deprivation that contained both the largest absolute numbers of users and the highest proportions of users .
14 We talk about the world according to our human mind configuration .
15 the game is to be televized on — sunday — ( SkySports ) according to my local football pub .
16 Dr Bob Cooper gave medical evidence and , according to my shaky shorthand outline , the dead man had been suffering from sexual depression .
17 He also packed a mean punch , according to his estranged wife Sheila .
18 When he did n't like the bedroom furniture in his penthouse suite at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami he ordered his bodyguards to throw the offending furniture out , according to his former bodyguard Andy Celentano , who said , ‘ One time he took a dislike to the piano .
  Next page