Example sentences of "according [prep] the [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 2 | According to the 1959 decree , the government appointed the Director-General ( DG ( and RTF was directly accountable to the Information Minister . |
| 3 | According to the 1959 Constitution executive power is held by the President , elected every five years , who appoints the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers . |
| 4 | According to the 1989 census , Russians accounted for just over half ( 50.8 per cent ) of the total population ; the balance was accounted for by a hundred or more different national groups , ranging from a few hundred Negidals in the Far East to the major Slavic and Muslim groups which occupied the west and south of the country as well as Russia proper . |
| 5 | A knowledge of the Russian language had become more widespread ( over 81 per cent of the population were fluent in Russian according to the 1989 census , up from 76 per cent in 1970 ) ; and the circulation of printed matter had increased considerably and become more evenly distributed between one republic and another . |
| 6 | Kazakhstan had a very substantial Russian population 37.8 per cent of the total according to the 1989 census , almost as many as the Kazakhs themselves — but it was the home of the great majority of the Soviet Union 's Kazakhs and it had become accepted that the republic 's party and state leadership should be drawn from the national group after whom the republic was named . |
| 7 | A sudden upsurge to 3,500 on Dec. 31-Jan. 1 was reportedly prompted by a rumour that the Greek authorities were going to seal the border , and on Jan. 2 a Greek government spokesman alleged that the rumour had been deliberately put about by the Albanian authorities in an attempt to rid the country of the Greek minority , which numbered nearly 59,000 according to the 1989 census . |
| 8 | Soviet Kurds numbered 152,952 according to the 1989 census , although this figure was believed to be substantially underestimated . |
| 9 | According to the 1989 census , Abkhazia was only 17.8 per cent Abkhaz and 45.7 per cent Georgian ( other major ethnic groups being Russians and Armenians ) , but since 1978 it had demanded secession from Georgia , this campaign having escalated in 1990 [ see pp. 37665 ; 38079 ] . |
| 10 | According to the 1931 census more than 30 per cent of the population were not Polish . |
| 11 | According to the 1981 census , 46.5 per cent of the population over the age of seventeen was illiterate . |
| 12 | For Great Britain as a whole , according to the 1981 Census , this makes about 49% of the population middle class and 51% working class . |
| 13 | More than 20 journalists were killed or wounded while covering the horrific conflict between the Serbian and Croatian republics , according to the 1991 World Press Freedom Review . |
| 14 | The SNP suggests that membership should be divided proportionally among the political parties according to the 1992 election result . |
| 15 | Doherty married an English girl , Laura , a milliner , in 1821 , and according to the 1841 census there were four children of the marriage , two sons and two daughters . |
| 16 | According to the 1956 agreement on the machinery , industrial action should only be contemplated when all the relevant stages have been exhausted . |
| 17 | Workers flocked to Middlesborough from all over the place ; according to the 1871 census nearly half the town 's population were born outside Yorkshire . |
| 18 | A typical example is the 1978 Tremadoc Guidebook comment after the first ascent of Fingerlicker in 1975 , where alone in that guide it was pointed out that the route had only been climbed after two ‘ Yo-Yo 's ’ ( according to the 1975 definition of a Yo-Yo ) . |
| 19 | Effective political control is exercised by the MPLA-PT , the sole legal party , which according to the 1975 Constitution is responsible for Angola 's political , economic and social leadership . |
| 20 | The USSR 's fifteen union republics , united on a supposedly voluntary basis , formed an ‘ integral , federal , multinational state ’ , according to the 1977 Constitution . |
| 21 | Amongst non-retired married couples with an earning wife , she brought in , on average , around 30 per cent of their joint earnings — 37 per cent where there were no dependent children , or 25 per cent where there were children , according to the 1985 Family Expenditure Survey ( FES ) . |
| 22 | According to the 1982 edition of the Martindale Extra Pharmacopoeta . |
| 23 | In the UK it will only be used under the law according to the 1967 Abortion Act , so no one will be able to get it over the counter at the chemist 's , nor will it be prescribed by GPs . |
| 24 | According to the 1944 Education Act the Secretary of State has a duty to ‘ promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose … ’ , although effective control was , at the time of the Tyndale dispute , devolved to the LEAs . |
| 25 | This pattern of change was n't , however , completely repeated in the 1970s , according to the 1980s re-study , which compared the landscapes of 1983 with those of 1972 as shown in Table 8.3 . |
| 26 | According to the 1990 report of the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) , 100 million people , one-quarter of Africa 's population , were receiving less than 80 per cent of daily food needs , and per capita incomes had fallen for the 12th successive year . |
| 27 | According to the 1990 yearbook of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) , 26 developing countries had acquired ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear , biological or chemical weapons . |