Example sentences of "and according [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly the needs of each person , and the problems they present , will differ according to the nature and severity of the disability and according to the individual 's personality and social and economic situation . |
| 2 | We have already noted that these will differ according to the actual disability and according to the individual 's circumstances . |
| 3 | Whether this is good or bad remains to be seen , but the country has now opened up and according to the law , the owner of a Rembrandt drawing or a Cranach painting may sell it to anyone offering the right price . |
| 4 | Found a tune , he took up his pen and he wrote some words , and according to the story , according to the legend , the next day at day-break , he rushed off to the Mayor Dietrich , and was able to say , I have done it . |
| 5 | The ten-foot-long cylindrical plastic balloon rises as trapped air is heated by the sun , and according to the blurb on its packaging , it could reach extraordinary altitudes ’ up to 30,000 feet if inadvertently released . |
| 6 | He became very gloomy and depressed and according to the girl it was only then that he interfered physically with her . |
| 7 | The Government are hoping to carry on and according to the Secretary of State for the Environment the people will have to put up with the tax until 1993 . |
| 8 | ( Also , the particle theory of light went out of favor during the nineteenth century ; it seemed that everything could be explained by the wave theory , and according to the wave theory , it was not clear that light would be affected by gravity at all . ) |
| 9 | And according to The Boy Nigel down in the yard , he is probably right . |
| 10 | In the early eighteenth century about twenty families lived there , and according to the census of 1801 it had a population of 137 [ Baker , 2 , 720 ] . |
| 11 | He used to play rugby , and according to the coach it shows . |
| 12 | And according to the Caesarean Support Network , ‘ Natural birth following Caesarean section is highly unlikely . ’ |
| 13 | Gilgamesh went on to search for the secret of immortality and according to the legend he almost succeeded . |
| 14 | Findlay was arrested and according to the Crown made damaging admissions , asking who had ‘ grassed ’ him and saying that he was only concerned in one post office robbery . |
| 15 | He took down the lengthy list of produce prices , all in US dollars and cents , eradicated the zeros or ‘ nulls ’ which indicated a space in the message , and according to the day of the month set the lines of figures against prepared lines of letters . |
| 16 | He went on to explain that the construction of the links would cost £2,000 plus , and the purchase price of the land — about 100 acres — another £4,000 , and according to the Standard , he thought ‘ Some of the tradesmen of Henley would probably be induced to invest £100 in it , because it was not like asking people to make a donation of £100 . |
| 17 | Let my lord pass on before his servant , and I will lead on slowly , according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children , until I come to my lord in Seir . ’ |
| 18 | But in this instance , the client was more offended than the candidate , and stormed out of the meeting , leaving the candidate puzzled but generally philosophical and according to the headhunter , ‘ he was quite amused and delightful about it . ’ |
| 19 | As with other insurance policies , cover varies according to the company and according to the premium paid , but the approach favoured by the Law Society , and exemplified by Sun Alliance , is a blanket cover subject to specified exclusions . |
| 20 | But the chances are you 'll be heading for the hills next weekend , and according to the Countryside Commission for Scotland , almost 100,000 of you will be doing so in Scotland ! |
| 21 | It was then 11 days since Jeremy had last been seen , and according to the coroner 's report he was still alive . |
| 22 | The back of Tutankhamun 's throne was covered in sheet gold , and according to the Bible King Solomon 's ( 970–933 B.C. ) , mounted on a dais with six steps , was sheathed in ivory overlaid by gold . |
| 23 | With the advent of the Portuguese , Brazil was declared Roman Catholic and according to the practice of the age , Jesuit priests accompanied the occupation of the country , seeking to baptise the indigenous Indian communities into the Catholic faith . |
| 24 | Kang Yang Wook , chief secretary of the council , spoke to the assembled delegates and according to the intercept of a broadcast on Radio Pyongyang said : |
| 25 | This unidimensionality is imposed on history by a backward projection of present-day standard phonology on to the past , and according to the theory of language standardization that we have tentatively advanced elsewhere ( J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) , it can be seen as an attempt to historicize the standard language — to create a past for it and determine a canon , in which canonical forms are argued for and unorthodox forms rejected . |
| 26 | And according to the theory you would then , after you 'd used the N and the F you 'd then start to use the T which is the sort of logical thing . |
| 27 | Concealment of an eye operation is one of the worst deceptions and according to the show rules is to be prosecuted as a breeding violation. 5 . |
| 28 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 29 | William of Jumièges ' statement that he later offered the æthelings a share of England is very difficult to credit ; it may owe something to Dudo 's story of the offer made to Rollo , or result from confusion with the events of 1041 , when Edward returned to England at Harthacnut 's invitation and according to the Chronicle C text was sworn in as king . |