Example sentences of "[coord] according to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a Sunday and according to the official explanation , the airline fax and computer was not in operation . |
| 2 | Patients referred for diagnostic studies were grouped according to their symptoms , whether symptoms developed after operation , and according to the stated anticipation of the result , slow or fast emptying , recorded by the referring clinician . |
| 3 | Again , according to Bernstein ( 1975 ) , Ball ( 1981 ) , and many more , schooling can have opposite effects on children according to whether children have been socialized into working-class or middle-class aspirations , and according to the actual way the schooling process is structured by the state , the teachers , and the subject-disciplines . |
| 4 | The mines had suffered disruption since July and 220 workers had been dismissed earlier for taking industrial action , and according to the managing director at least two weeks ' production had been lost . |
| 5 | A piece of gold has solidity , extension , shape , ‘ mobility ’ ( is in motion or at rest ) , and ‘ number ’ ( is one piece ) , and according to the corpuscular theory the gold 's corpuscles have these qualities too . |
| 6 | Doherty married an English girl , Laura , a milliner , in 1821 , and according to the 1841 census there were four children of the marriage , two sons and two daughters . |
| 7 | In rural Wales , for example , taking 1938–39 as the year of the ‘ peak ’ network , considerable decline may be seen in route mileage in the first decade up to 1949 , although this did not occur at a constant rate and varied considerably in the north and south of Wales , and according to the specific operating companies considered . |
| 8 | Crerand bitterly resents Docherty who dismissed him as Manchester United 's assistant manager and according to the ex-Celtic halfback , the late Jock Stein once described Docherty as ‘ nothing but a Glasgow corner boy . ’ |
| 9 | Different large-scale multi-divisional enterprises may exploit these advantages in different degrees , according to the form and degree of diversification they have developed and according to the particular effectiveness of their management , but the general point here is that these advantages can not be written off as financial/speculative considerations . |
| 10 | The multinationals have moved to other countries because of the civil war and according to the last report , in May 1983 , there were only four factories still operating in the multinational industrial parks . |
| 11 | Troops moved in , and according to the military command , many areas of the West Bank are once more under curfew ; it is a ripple effect which will probable grow over the next few days . |
| 12 | This was perceived to be a ‘ loophole ’ in the previous law , and according to the White Paper , the new formulation under consideration is designed to resolve this problem . |
| 13 | The EC is already funding a management programme for the threatened wetlands , and according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , the Commission would be " pouring its own money down the drain " if it were to decide to back the scheme . |
| 14 | The AP correspondent would then read out the latest dispatch form Teheran and according to the British embassy , " The Shah would then put on his spectacles and , in a charming manner which endeared him to present , would comment in his quiet English on the news . |
| 15 | And according to the National Federation of Consumer Groups ( NFCG ) , there 's no consistency among the water companies on this issue . |
| 16 | The international market for captive birds is growing and according to the National Audubon Society , the trade has resulted in 77 of the world 's 335 parrot species becoming threatened . |
| 17 | Beyond this , however , the ‘ social contracts ’ according to the left and according to the parliamentary leadership diverged markedly . |
| 18 | Escape can be a strong motivation for travel , but according to the great traveller Freya Stark , ‘ The true wanderer , whose travels are happiness , goes out not to shun , but to seek . ’ |
| 19 | But according to the earliest Church historians , the James and Jude of the second century were the grandsons of another , older Jude , who was Jesus 's brother . |
| 20 | But according to the common understanding of neutrality , Uruguay would have been breaking its neutrality if in the circumstances described it would have started supplying one of the parties with militarily useful materials after the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , but according to the local sergeant , there 's an illegitimate daughter around somewhere . ’ |
| 22 | The accounts are , as usual , contradictory , but according to the fullest account de Tourville next despatched nine of his ships back to Brest to collect additional troops , who were to be transported across the Channel in shallow-draught galleys , collected from the Mediterranean , with a mere two feet [ 0.6 m ] of freeboard between waterline and deck . |
| 23 | Because many new mums ca n't produce enough expressed milk — or choose not to breastfeed — there 's a real need for donated milk from milk banks , but according to the National Childbirth Trust these are becoming few and far between . |
| 24 | Dorje had been sentenced to three years of hard labour , but according to the Chinese Government , he ‘ showed signs of reform ’ and ‘ was granted early release ’ . |