Example sentences of "[noun] according to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was an alien landscape , man-made in its totality according to a scale she could not comprehend . |
| 2 | It proceeds not by attempting to describe the essence of units but by arranging the sound units according to a system of binary oppositions ' . |
| 3 | As shown in the colour photographs , the Furuno represents the strength of each trace according to a colour code , with the strongest echoes shown in red , and the weakest in blue . |
| 4 | Database technology , interoperability and network integration and open systems and industry standards are the key technological issues facing HP Unix and MPE users in the US , Canada and Mexico according to a survey of MIS managers by Interex , the International Association of Hewlett-Packard Computer Users , based upon 820 replies . |
| 5 | The legislature is the unicameral House of Representatives ( increased prior to the December 1985 elections from 50 seats to 80 , including a nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots ) which is elected by universal adult suffrage according to a system of proportional representation . |
| 6 | There is growing public demand for increased information on food labels according to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) . |
| 7 | A difficulty in interpreting laterality reaction time data according to a fixed anatomical model is that shorter response latencies for uncrossed as compared with crossed reactions would be expected simply on the grounds of stimulus-response ( S-R ) compatibility . |
| 8 | Windfarms should not be allowed in the Peak District National Park according to a consultative document . |
| 9 | Accompanying this shift is the introduction of a uniform business rate whose level is to be centrally determined , with the income also collected centrally and then redistributed in the form of government grant according to a centrally determined formula . |
| 10 | Analysis of teachers ' responses will seek groupings of activities according to a common pattern of use . |
| 11 | The environmental health officer , for his or her part , will almost always rate the noise according to a standard formula . |
| 12 | Patients across the country are receiving widely varying doses of radiation during X-rays according to a report out today by the Oxfordshire-based National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 13 | FAMILIES in receipt of state benefit are forced to go hungry because of lack of money according to a National Children 's Home survey just published . |
| 14 | Rapidly increasing livestock production around the globe is threatening the environment by promoting overgrazing , deforestation , water pollution and methane emissions according to a study by the Worldwatch Institute . |
| 15 | Categorizing fiction according to a subject classification is widely recognized as difficult and unhelpful . |
| 16 | To return to my Degas quote : many of the writers seem to be appropriating what they see as ‘ feminist tools of socio-political deconstruction ’ by examining details of Degas ' work according to a binary opposition of woman as object/man as Baudelairean flaneur . |
| 17 | Northern Ireland was urged to go up market to attract affluent visitors according to a report by the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre . |
| 18 | That is to say that every individual lives according to a highly structured set of personal obligations which he or she must continually fulfil . |
| 19 | Social class may well be based on the occupation of the male head of the household according to a pre-determined scale , such as , in Britain , that of the Registrar general , or the Market Research Society . |
| 20 | If Elmer has a right to the inheritance according to a convention of this sort — if he has a right to it according to social conventions about who has power to legislate and how that power is to be exercised and how doubts created by the language are to be settled — then he has a legal right to it , but not otherwise . |
| 21 | My sister Pat , aged thirteen was in theory being educated at home according to a syllabus devised by the Parents ' National Educational Union , and which worked on a postal basis in much the same way as the Open University does today . |
| 22 | GUIL : Wait a minute — we came from roughly south according to a rough map . |
| 23 | In essence , it proposes the introduction of a system of checks and balances into the boardrooms of UK listed companies , to be administered by non-executive directors according to a prescribed code of best practice and to be given force by public disclosure of compliance . |
| 24 | Three hundred and twenty-five works of art reported missing from Paris 's Musée Jacquemart-André in an inventory published in April 1991 by the Cour des Comptes the lofty body responsible for controlling public finance have not only been found , but never left the museum according to a second survey carried out by order of a Paris court . |
| 25 | EAST Cleveland has its ‘ cardboard ’ communities according to a shock report . |
| 26 | Subjects then received placebo or salmeterol 50 , 100 , or 200 µg by metered dose inhaler according to a randomised , crossover , double blind design ( by Latin square randomisation ) . |
| 27 | Workers in Northumberland are among the poorest paid and twice as likely to earn less than the average for workers throughout the European Community according to a survey by the Northern Region Low Pay Unit . |
| 28 | It also plays host to a number of strange , ghostly occurrences according to a book I belong to Glasgow by Bill Hamilton and Gordon Carsely , from which I am most obliged for the information . |
| 29 | Some Franks were prepared to fight under the Roman Paul , just as Childeric 's men had once followed Aegidius according to a rather more legendary story which Gregory of Tours knew , but which Fredegar related at greater length . |
| 30 | Not so long ago , Western man believed that the Earth was flat , that the Earth was the centre of the universe , and that God had created the Earth in seven days according to a literal interpretation of a creation myth given in an old Jewish book . |