Example sentences of "according [prep] british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd forgone breakfast because I had n't got to bed till four in the morning , lunch because I had a hangover and anyway I was late for the train , and due to the fact that it was — according to British Rail at any rate — still part of the extended Festive Period , there had been no buffet trolley on the train . |
| 2 | According to British Rail and the Department of Transport 's own published estimates , the new low-level station will double the number of rail passengers passing through the King 's Cross station complex during the morning peak hours . |
| 3 | According to British Rail press officer Sue McInstry the term was filched from the navy . |
| 4 | According to British Rail press officer Sue McInstry the term was filched from the navy . |
| 5 | THE main Glasgow-London railway faces closure for safety reasons unless millions of pounds are spent to replace life-expired equipment , according to British Rail engineers . |
| 6 | According to British press reports from Freetown , the Sierra Leone capital , the NPFL forces had penetrated some 150 km inside Sierra Leone by mid-May , and intended to destabilize the country and so reduce the effectiveness of the 10,000-strong Nigerian-led Economic Community of West African States Ceasefire Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) force in Liberia . |
| 7 | Incidentally , you will be very pleased to hear that ( according to British nutritionist Celia Wright ) for one day a week you can and should feast . |
| 8 | THE SHOW is over according to British Coal . |
| 9 | THE SHOW is over according to British Coal . |