Example sentences of "according [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to ancient custom it would be possible for Sarah as wife to claim the child as her own . |
| 2 | According to one story he started out as a liveryman in England and ran away to sea after stealing his mistress 's jewels . |
| 3 | According to one source I 've spoken to , when this area was constructed a full crescent was exactly what Loraine Crescent was intended to be with no through road into Hammond Drive . |
| 4 | According to one source he was credited with five shot down and seven others damaged . |
| 5 | ‘ According to that guy I just spoke to , ’ said Gregson quietly , ‘ Trevor Magee died six months ago . |
| 6 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 7 | It was also open to the Revenue to apportion the tax among several beneficiaries according to any method they thought fit . |
| 8 | According to classical criminology we mostly behave in a rational manner . |
| 9 | He complained that according to English Law he could not marry a woman , and that thus he was denied the right to marry and found a family . |
| 10 | According to this definition we are living in a particularly ‘ novelistic ’ age . |
| 11 | According to this model we recognize objects by comparing a list of basic elements of the visual image , like lines , edges , and angles , with a list , stored in memory , of the attributes associated with a particular object . |
| 12 | According to this view you can reach for security through self-help — individual action , or action in small groups of like-minded people — but not through reliance on big bureaucracies . |
| 13 | According to Electronic News it has no OEM customers as yet , but it has two deals cooking . |
| 14 | According to French radio it was attended by 15,000 people , who heard speakers demand the formation of a provisional government of national unity and the restoration of rights to expelled Mauritanians . |