Example sentences of "accord to the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the latter system each country is given a number of votes in relation to its size and to gain a majority a proposal has to obtain fifty-four votes out of a total of seventy-six and be approved by at least eight member states . |
| 2 | According to the latter view , scientific knowledge grows continuously as more numerous and more various observations are made , enabling new concepts to be formed , old ones to be refined , and new lawful relationships between them to be discovered . |
| 3 | And there were shouts too for the resignation of manager Ray Hankin , who , according to the many rumours sweeping the ground before and during the match , is to be replaced by former Middlesbrough and Millwall boss Bruce Rioch . |
| 4 | Speaking before business , civic and other groups Reagan was an impressive performer according to the former newspaperman who organized his early GE tours . |
| 5 | According to the former directors , the company increased its network of offices but in 1991 it was hit by ‘ the ravages ’ of the recession . |
| 6 | All ten research reactors at Moscow 's Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy are unsafe , according to the former head of the city 's research reactor inspectorate , Vladimir Kuznetsov . |
| 7 | According to the same writer , Coleman was a little below middle height . |
| 8 | Witnesses were examined according to the same procedure as at police court trials . |
| 9 | Formerly the domicile of a wife was necessarily the same as that of her husband , but under the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 the wife 's dependent domicile was abolished : now her domicile is determined according to the same rules as for a single person . |
| 10 | To give you useful comparisons , every machine is tested according to the same criteria : |
| 11 | To give you useful comparisons , every machine is tested according to the same criteria : |
| 12 | Reappraisal of Planning Permission — all existing permissions should be reassessed according to the same criteria as above , and authorities would have the power to rescind or modify them . |
| 13 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 14 | He wanted his prose to be objective , scientific , devoid of personal presence , devoid of opinions ; so he decided that poetry ought to be written according to the same principles . |
| 15 | Skinner ( 1948 ) states that " verbal behaviour is emitted behaviour which is reinforced by a listener and develops according to the same principles as other operant behaviour . |
| 16 | As to the three first designs it must be recollected that while the first prize for the Foreign Office was awarded to Messrs. Coe and Hofland , yet they did not compete for the War Office again , while in the opinion of Mr. Burn and that of the assessors , Messrs. Banks and Barry stood first in merit for the Foreign Office ; yet , according to the same opinion , they were unsuccessful for the War Office , while Mr. Scott stood second both for one and the other . |
| 17 | On the other hand , it did not necessarily contradict the public service principles , especially as the new Act of Parliament obliged ITV to ‘ inform , educate and entertain' according to the same standards . |
| 18 | The information made visible by the use of such database facilities is restricted according to the same security rules imposed by LIFESPAN . |
| 19 | Developing and mounting were performed according to the same protocol as for the PAP procedure . |
| 20 | Then an appendix , a disc list , gives every known issue and reissue according to the same numbering , a sensible practice . |
| 21 | Two-syllable simple adjectives are stressed according to the same rule , giving : |
| 22 | This prediction , according to the same source , was based on her privileged knowledge . |
| 23 | Kirchhoff reasoned that cooler elements in the outer layers of the Sun would absorb energy according to the same pattern ; and accordingly he identified in the Sun a number of elements found upon the Earth . |
| 24 | And are we to think that this loving God really wants us to linger on in pain and without dignity when , according to the same dogma , He is in any case calling us to a better life ? |
| 25 | In 1958 , according to the same calculations , the Soviet Union influenced 31 per cent of the world 's population and 9 per cent of the world 's GNP ( excluding the USSR itself ) ; by 1979 the USSR influenced only 6 per cent of the world 's population and only 5 per cent of the world 's GNP , again excluding the USSR itself . |
| 26 | Another reason , according to the same financier , was that ‘ at least two of his backers were not acceptable to the United board , while the third was so murky it was not even clear who it was . ’ |
| 27 | The landowners ' letters to the Home Secretary revealed the extent to which they were initially unable to accept that their labourers were more than usually discontented ; according to the more alarmist gentry , ‘ travelling incendiaries respectably attired ’ were racing round the area in fast carriages , firing incendiary pellets from slings or crossbows into haystacks . |