Example sentences of "accord to [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drude attempted to depict the relative abundance of each species in an area according to a ranking system with categories ranging from ‘ social ’ ( where a single species formed an overall mass ) down to ‘ scarce ’ . |
| 2 | Monday 9pm : Finished tape is taken to BBC events unit at Kensington House , Shepherd 's Bush , west London , where it is kept ‘ under lock and key ’ , according to a BBC spokesman . |
| 3 | According to a State Education Commission investigation , various work units across the country had refused 5,500 graduates in 1987 , indicating that there were too many coming from the universities . |
| 4 | One of the species that does , according to a State Department report last year , is Fusarium semitectum . |
| 5 | There remained , according to a State Department spokesman , the US stipulation that all South African political prisoners had to be released . |
| 6 | LOCAL government has a key role in making the world a better place , according to a Middlesbrough council official . |
| 7 | CAMBODIAN guerrillas have captured a number of Phnom Penh government outposts in the north-west in the last week , but they have yet to mount an attack on a major town , according to a resistance spokesman and Western intelligence sources in Bangkok . |
| 8 | And where every body panel is precisely positioned according to a computer model consisting of 12,000 reference points . |
| 9 | A non-contributory pension is the benefit most prospective employees look for when considering a job offer , according to a KPMG survey . |
| 10 | According to a Gwynedd County Council report the company said it is unable to tender competitively for contracts unless it has the flexibility of Sunday working . |
| 11 | Reports of the Conservative Party 's spending on poster advertising in the run-up to the election were greatly exaggerated , according to a campaign survey by outdoor specialist Concord Posterlink . |
| 12 | On the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros dam and hydroelectric power station project on the Danube , Hungary had on May 25 renounced the 1977 agreement on environmental grounds [ see pp. 38843 ; 38939 ] , but work on the Slovak side had gone ahead , and the facility was to begin partial operations in early November , according to a CSTK report on Sept. 10 , with construction due for completion by the end of 1992 . |
| 13 | According to a UK government report , Dioxins in the Environment , 95 per cent of dioxins in food come from meat and meat products , milk , eggs and fish . |
| 14 | Categorizing fiction according to a subject classification is widely recognized as difficult and unhelpful . |
| 15 | And only half have that most ubiquitous machine , the washing machine , according to a Child Poverty Group survey carried out with the Family Services Unit in 1981 . |
| 16 | As shown in the colour photographs , the Furuno represents the strength of each trace according to a colour code , with the strongest echoes shown in red , and the weakest in blue . |
| 17 | According to a response prediction model , the observed response rate was not related to the selection of patients likely to respond . |
| 18 | According to a park spokesman , 80 per cent of game animals died in the 1983 drought , despite the fact that there was still some surface water . |
| 19 | According to a government communiqué after the coup attempt , Gen. Marcos Zarate Rota , the commander of the army , had also been involved in the conspiracy and was under investigation for drug trafficking . |
| 20 | According to a government spokesman , three people including a police constable were killed and 175 people taken into custody ; opposition leaders claimed a higher total of casualties . |
| 21 | The mujaheddin marked the 10th anniversary of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan on Dec. 27 in similar fashion by launching at least 52 rockets into Kabul killing dozens of people according to a government spokesperson . |
| 22 | Protracted industrial decline since the 1920s , accelerated in the postwar period by the closure of the docks , had produced all the symptoms of a depressed inner-city area which , according to a government survey using a range of socioeconomic indicators , was the second most deprived urban borough in the country ( Department of the Environment 1983 ) . |
| 23 | THE world renowned Lowden Guitar factory in Newtownards is a fine example of how local companies can succeed in highly competitive markets overseas , according to a government minister . |
| 24 | For ‘ duds ’ , according to a government minister . |
| 25 | According to a government minister at the time , the act recognized that the railways ‘ are not a normal nationalized industry but a unique type of public corporation which exists to service social and environmental purposes as well as the economic needs ’ ( Hansard , 24 June 1974 ) . |
| 26 | The 1989 food deficit was estimated at 349,109 tonnes of grain , according to a government announcement on Nov. 3 , 1989 . |
| 27 | NORTHERN Ireland was one of the most peaceful regions of the United Kingdom last year , according to a government report published yesterday . |
| 28 | TEENAGE girls are far more likely to end up as gymslip mums now than a decade ago , according to a Government report . |
| 29 | According to a government report published on Aug. 9 , cases of espionage in Switzerland involving agents from Eastern Europe continued to increase ; 65 of the 91 cases recorded from 1980 to 1988 involved these countries , most of which desired technological rather than political or security information , and over the same period 17 of the 24 diplomats and officials expelled were from Eastern Europe . |
| 30 | Acid rain will continue to affect Britain for many years to come , despite new anti-pollution measures , according to a government report . |