Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] according [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defence Ministry had published a decree on Nov. 13 allowing senior officers to be retired " for reasons of renewal according to the needs of each institute " . |
| 2 | Clean the test tube , add the right amount of chemical according to the textbook instructions , heat it up , watch the colour change on the litmus paper , a straightforward sequence of steps that has been performed by thousands before us and will be repeated by as many after . |
| 3 | It was made very clear in chapter 1 that , in determining the yields required on investment , it is possible to formulate the required rate of return according to the level of the corporate group addressed . |
| 4 | In other words , it is not just that elderly women experience a higher incidence of poverty according to the social assistance measure of poverty . |
| 5 | The prevalence of incontinence according to the International Continence Society 's definition — a condition in which involuntary loss of urine is a social or hygienic problem and is objectively demonstrable — is unknown . |
| 6 | The treaty may lay down transitional provisions for the successive stages of EMU according to the circumstances of the different countries . " |
| 7 | Before the procedure demographic details were obtained from the patient of age and sex , relevant cardiopulmonary history , shortness of breath according to the New York Heart Association criteria , current treatment , and history of smoking . |
| 8 | Whilst both the block and the hole are seen to be elements of the " component " , they must maintain a specified relationship in order that the functionality of the component is maintained , ie the domain of the hole lies within the domain of block according to the previously declared rules . |
| 9 | There should be delegation of authority according to the results required , ie. a subordinate must be given sufficient authority to do all that is expected of him . |
| 10 | The lexicon contains 4000 words which have the highest frequency of occurrence according to the American Heritage Word Frequency Book ( Carroll , Davies & Richman , 1971 ) . |
| 11 | While this figure is likely to have a fair range of variation according to the amount of crime in the catchment area of the newspaper and the general interest of the newspaper in reporting sex crime , it still gives some idea that it is only a small minority of local cases that get featured nationally . |
| 12 | This looks almost inescapably like a type of variation according to the referential category represented by the noun — i.e. not really a matter of syntactic relation at all — and this impression is strengthened by his further remark , " Having provided for the two extremes of referent-modification and reference-modification , we can now assess the blending that frequently — perhaps more often than not — takes place between the two . " |
| 13 | Lord Sankey 's attitude indicates that a court of law in the United Kingdom would need weighty evidence before becoming willing to abandon the principle of legality according to the pre-existing constitutional norms , and so it should , so long as uncertainty as to the ‘ realities ’ prevails . |
| 14 | You are not cutting the wood of life according to the grain … |
| 15 | Jung said that we can not live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life 's morning . |
| 16 | This is guaranteed by the principle of induction that forms the basis of science according to the naive inductivist . |
| 17 | In parallel to this substantive rationality ( giving particular kinds of reason according to the discipline ) , the rational life also requires , as we have seen , the participation in a certain kind of dialogue . |
| 18 | Indeed , not even Eratosthenes presented what could be considered a decent amount of information according to the standards of later times . |
| 19 | This chapter started with a discussion on evaluation and its purpose , together with a description of evaluation according to the four parameters of targets , scope , methods and timing . |
| 20 | Briefly , the perfused preparation consisted of pancreas with a small remnant of duodenum according to the method as described elsewhere . |
| 21 | By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied . |
| 22 | It will also reveal the impact of disease according to the status of households , as defined by their relative wealth , by the occupations of their heads and co-residents , and by their location within the city . |
| 23 | Discretion permits the individualization of justice according to the particular facts of each case . |
| 24 | in both these instances , the degree of modification varies within a single species of predator according to the relative sizes of predator and prey , the maturity of either predator or prey , and the state of hunger of the predator ; |
| 25 | It noted that ‘ these duties so very necessary for the life of the Church can in many areas be fulfilled only with difficulty according to the prevailing discipline of the Latin Church ’ . |
| 26 | These oligonucleotides were attached to Dynal magnetic beads coated with streptavidin according to the manufacturer 's instructions . |
| 27 | Locks weirs and boats need to be treated with respect according to the National Rivers Authority , but there are still some people who put themselves at risk by behaving foolishly . |
| 28 | However , local provision was constrained by ratepayer pressure against costly expenditure and led to considerable local variations in provision according to the willingness and ability of ratepayers to pay , and the imaginativeness or concern for local problems of local representatives . |
| 29 | Up to the commencement of school life , the major gratifications of the child in its interactions with others have been based largely on the overt and tacit approval of its parents its activities have been categorised in part according to the extent by which maternal and paternal love has waxed or waned as a result of them . |
| 30 | The " ordinary reader " may vary in discernment according to the newspaper which he reads and the way in which the article is presented : Ten of the 12 CID officers stationed at Banbury sued the " News of the World " . |