Example sentences of "according [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equation ( 6.22a ) may immediately be integrated as in ( 6.24 ) to give ( 9.1 ) where and are arbitrary decreasing functions which , according to the appropriate boundary conditions ( 7.3 ) , are required to satisfy and . |
| 2 | STRESS dominates the lives of many workers these days , according to the six therapists . |
| 3 | They reckon there was a load of fallen branches lying under the air shaft before we pushed the guy down it ; according to the young cop who first went down it looked like he 'd crawled out from the middle of the pile . |
| 4 | The democratic aspiration in its classical form is doomed — an outcome which is viewed with either glee or regret according to the political orientation of the theorists concerned . |
| 5 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 6 | The ‘ cabinet ’ is a term whose meaning differs according to the political system being considered . |
| 7 | You will see that there are two parts to it — one in which the items have been sorted according to the geographical location ( ie by county name , alphabetically ) ; the other by service category . |
| 8 | Cases were tried at other localities according to the geographical distribution of serious crime . |
| 9 | According to the confidential figures , the 12 inner London authorities face an underlying deficit of almost £30m this year , and have identified £18m of savings . |
| 10 | In other words , according to the neurophysiological CTP , sensation , perception , experience , consciousness , are intimately related to , or even boil down to , large numbers of trains or patterns of nerve impulses . |
| 11 | According to the Spanish Ministry of the Interior , the links between MIR and ETA — denied by a leading member of MIR , Patricio Rivas , on Jan. 29 — dated back to 1978 and had lasted until 1989 . |
| 12 | Thus , according to the Spanish chronicler Hydatius the settlement of the Visigoths in Aquitaine took place in 418 ; according to the Gallo-Roman Prosper , it happened a year later . |
| 13 | Waste in the first category may be minimised by installing automatic light controls ; turning lighting on or off according to the measured light levels . |
| 14 | Foucault notes that , at the same time as the Annales school and others were constructing a history according to the long durée , in the history of science , philosophy , and literature , attention was turning in exactly the opposite direction , that is away from vast unities towards phenomena of rupture , discontinuity , displacement and transformation , towards different temporalities as well as architectonic unities . |
| 15 | ’ Erskine May ’ states clearly that amendments may be made in Committee even if they are not within the Bill 's scope according to the long title . |
| 16 | According to the second view , inspiration was mantic possession : the divine afflatus took over the voice of prophet or prophetess , and employed the human agent as a musician plays a lyre which has no mind of its own . |
| 17 | The large lump was a swollen gland — probably the result of the blood irregularity which , according to the second test , had now returned to normal . |
| 18 | According to the second paragraph of article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 19 | The reason for this , according to the second of the two studies just cited , is that " large firms … had more rationalised hiring systems and were better able to identify when temporary workers could be used efficiently " . |
| 20 | According to the second interpretation even this may substantially overstate the effect of the section . |
| 21 | According to the first , and the largest group , all labourers are part of the capital ; according to the second group , it is , as Kiker points out , ‘ the skilled individual who is the capital ’ . |
| 22 | The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) . |
| 23 | The study was performed according to the second declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethical Committee of Aarhus county . |
| 24 | First , Phillips took little account of the degree of trade union militancy in deriving his relationship : according to the cost-push theories outlined in section 6.3 , an increase in union militancy will raise the rate of wage inflation independently of the state of demand . |
| 25 | Information is available from the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry ( HIPE ) on national bed-use rates by sex , age group and medical condition for non-psychiatric patients , where conditions are grouped according to the seventeen major Chapter headings of the International Classification of Diseases . |
| 26 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 27 | Hoyle writes : ‘ My own recent work has caused me to doubt , not that evolution takes place , but that it takes place according to the usual theory of natural selection operating on randomly generated mutations . |
| 28 | As the influence of the DD genotype seemed to be independent of classical risk factors , we considered that it might be particularly important in myocardial infarction patients considered to be at low risk according to the usual criteria . |
| 29 | According to the usual precepts of cricket 's scriptwriting , Pakistan would now recover their poise , the match would be won without further wickets falling , and everybody would be left wondering what all the hubbub and expectancy had been about . |
| 30 | The positive sense of the integration path is defined relative to the positive current direction according to the usual right-hand convention . |