Example sentences of "according [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | According to the latter , only those theories that can be shown to be true or probably true are to be admitted into science . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Speaking before business , civic and other groups Reagan was an impressive performer according to the former newspaperman who organized his early GE tours . |
| 7 | ZIMBABWE , according to the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia , Ian Smith , is ‘ going to the dogs ’ . |
| 8 | According to the former , English studies was seen as failing to hold true to its proper identity as an educational principle and cultured force . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | According to the former directors , the company increased its network of offices but in 1991 it was hit by ‘ the ravages ’ of the recession . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | This prediction , according to the same source , was based on her privileged knowledge . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | According to the same writer , Coleman was a little below middle height . |
| 19 | Witnesses were examined according to the same procedure as at police court trials . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To give you useful comparisons , every machine is tested according to the same criteria : |
| 22 | 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 ] ) . |
| 23 | Then an appendix , a disc list , gives every known issue and reissue according to the same numbering , a sensible practice . |
| 24 | And all officers and ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majestyes and their successors according to the same in all times to come … |
| 25 | To give you useful comparisons , every machine is tested according to the same criteria : |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The 600dpi printer will provide adequate quality setting for perhaps 60% of all typeset documents — according to the same American report — and many magazines and journals are created in just this way . |
| 29 | He wanted his prose to be objective , scientific , devoid of personal presence , devoid of opinions ; so he decided that poetry ought to be written according to the same principles . |
| 30 | While Kittay 's theory has the advantage that it allows metaphor to be seen as operating according to the same basic principles regardless of the size of the discursive unit in question , Brooke-Rose 's own examination of the mechanisms of the verb metaphor suggest a view that minimizes dependence on an implicit ‘ proper ’ term outside the text and emphasizes the metaphoric interactions between the terms themselves . |