Example sentences of "accord to [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nuclear power plant at Dounreay , Scotland , is breaking regulations on the storage and disposal of radioactive waste , according to a former nuclear waste manager and head of British Nuclear Fuels ' environment protection group , Bob Burton . |
| 2 | A back-up safety system for the UK 's nuclear power station controllers may not work properly because bugs in the computer software have not been eliminated , according to a former employee of the company that wrote the software . |
| 3 | Neil Latimer was not the gunman who shot Catholic council workman Adrian Carroll in Armagh City nine years ago , according to a former loyalist paramilitary boss . |
| 4 | Earlier , Mr Karel Urbanek , the new party leader , had his first talks with Mr Havel and , according to the latter , backed the opposition 's call to rid the government of ‘ discredited figures ’ in favour of ‘ young , able experts ’ . |
| 5 | According to the latter system each country is given a number of votes in relation to its size and to gain a majority a proposal has to obtain fifty-four votes out of a total of seventy-six and be approved by at least eight member states . |
| 6 | According to the latter , only those theories that can be shown to be true or probably true are to be admitted into science . |
| 7 | According to the latter view , scientific knowledge grows continuously as more numerous and more various observations are made , enabling new concepts to be formed , old ones to be refined , and new lawful relationships between them to be discovered . |
| 8 | And there were shouts too for the resignation of manager Ray Hankin , who , according to the many rumours sweeping the ground before and during the match , is to be replaced by former Middlesbrough and Millwall boss Bruce Rioch . |
| 9 | Speaking before business , civic and other groups Reagan was an impressive performer according to the former newspaperman who organized his early GE tours . |
| 10 | ZIMBABWE , according to the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia , Ian Smith , is ‘ going to the dogs ’ . |
| 11 | According to the former , English studies was seen as failing to hold true to its proper identity as an educational principle and cultured force . |
| 12 | According to the former , Molla Edebali , a native of Karaman , came to the Ottoman lands and there won the complete confidence of Osman so that the latter " used to refer to him problems in the Seriat and to consult with him in matters of government " . |
| 13 | All ten research reactors at Moscow 's Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy are unsafe , according to the former head of the city 's research reactor inspectorate , Vladimir Kuznetsov . |
| 14 | According to the former directors , the company increased its network of offices but in 1991 it was hit by ‘ the ravages ’ of the recession . |
| 15 | Another reason , according to the same financier , was that ‘ at least two of his backers were not acceptable to the United board , while the third was so murky it was not even clear who it was . ’ |
| 16 | This prediction , according to the same source , was based on her privileged knowledge . |
| 17 | Formerly the domicile of a wife was necessarily the same as that of her husband , but under the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 the wife 's dependent domicile was abolished : now her domicile is determined according to the same rules as for a single person . |
| 18 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 19 | According to the same official report , the rural areas fared no better , with the proportion of families classified as poor rising from 58 per cent in 1980 to 82 per cent in 1982 . |
| 20 | As to the three first designs it must be recollected that while the first prize for the Foreign Office was awarded to Messrs. Coe and Hofland , yet they did not compete for the War Office again , while in the opinion of Mr. Burn and that of the assessors , Messrs. Banks and Barry stood first in merit for the Foreign Office ; yet , according to the same opinion , they were unsuccessful for the War Office , while Mr. Scott stood second both for one and the other . |
| 21 | According to the same writer , Coleman was a little below middle height . |
| 22 | Witnesses were examined according to the same procedure as at police court trials . |
| 23 | On the other hand , it did not necessarily contradict the public service principles , especially as the new Act of Parliament obliged ITV to ‘ inform , educate and entertain' according to the same standards . |
| 24 | To give you useful comparisons , every machine is tested according to the same criteria : |
| 25 | Politics and knowledge have worked according to the same Hegelian dialectic , with its ‘ phallo-logocentric Aufhebung ’ — whether it be Marxism 's History , Europe 's colonial annexations and accompanying racism or orientalist scholarship , or , in a typical conflation of patriarchy and colonialism , Freud 's characterization of femininity as the dark unexplored continent ( ’ within his economy , she is the strangeness he likes to appropriate' [ 68 ] ) . |
| 26 | Then an appendix , a disc list , gives every known issue and reissue according to the same numbering , a sensible practice . |
| 27 | And all officers and ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majestyes and their successors according to the same in all times to come … |
| 28 | To give you useful comparisons , every machine is tested according to the same criteria : |
| 29 | I have already mentioned Family Affair , which features specific language items selected according to the same functional and structural syllabus as the language course Building Strategies . |
| 30 | In 1958 , according to the same calculations , the Soviet Union influenced 31 per cent of the world 's population and 9 per cent of the world 's GNP ( excluding the USSR itself ) ; by 1979 the USSR influenced only 6 per cent of the world 's population and only 5 per cent of the world 's GNP , again excluding the USSR itself . |