Example sentences of "according [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The large lump was a swollen gland — probably the result of the blood irregularity which , according to the second test , had now returned to normal . |
| 2 | According to the second interpretation even this may substantially overstate the effect of the section . |
| 3 | According to the second view , inspiration was mantic possession : the divine afflatus took over the voice of prophet or prophetess , and employed the human agent as a musician plays a lyre which has no mind of its own . |
| 4 | The study was performed according to the second declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethical Committee of Aarhus county . |
| 5 | According to the first , and the largest group , all labourers are part of the capital ; according to the second group , it is , as Kiker points out , ‘ the skilled individual who is the capital ’ . |
| 6 | The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) . |
| 7 | According to the second paragraph of article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 8 | This is in no small part due to the potential of stained glass to transform ‘ that which is material to that which is immaterial ’ , according to the 12th century Abbot Suger , who is credited with building , near Paris , the first gothic structure . |
| 9 | According to the first theory , which is the one the Greeks themselves prefer , they behave as they do in the public side of life because of what history has done to them . |
| 10 | According to the first view , inspiration is an enhancement of natural , rational discernment , not a suspension or abolition . |
| 11 | Losses of European forests due to air pollution are running at US$29 billion per year , according to the first study ever to attempt such an estimate of pollution 's financial impact on tree reserves . |
| 12 | Although the classification notation will subsequently incorporate the notation of the second facet , the document will be placed physically according to the first facet ; that is , this document will either be placed with other documents on mathematics or with other documents on primary schools . |
| 13 | Records are filed according to the first letter of the surname and then in the order of the first letter of the Christian name , for example : |
| 14 | If thirty days elapse from the date on which one of the parties received a proposal submitted according to the first item without the parties agreeing to appoint the one arbitrator , his appointment is done by the appointing authority which the parties agreed to name . |
| 15 | If thirty days elapse from the date on which either party received a proposal — submitted according to the first item [ ( a ) ] — without the two parties agreeing on appointing one arbitrator , the authority nominated by the two parties undertakes to appoint the arbitrator . |
| 16 | Though I do not desire to stray into fields where others here are expert , I must point out that according to the first chapter of Genesis the world was so constituted from the beginning that good and evil were created together in it , and also that the knowledge of them existed before mankind . |
| 17 | It is possible for the world to stabilize carbon dioxide emissions and still enjoy considerable economic growth , according to the fifteenth World Energy Congress , the gathering of the world 's energy-generating industry . |
| 18 | According to the last reference I looked up , erm Merseyside erm is about as big This is an old reference , |
| 19 | The multinationals have moved to other countries because of the civil war and according to the last report , in May 1983 , there were only four factories still operating in the multinational industrial parks . |
| 20 | Maternal , infant and child mortality " have all decreased , according to the last report published for 1981 . |