Example sentences of "according [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having impetuously killed the English sheriff at Lanark — perhaps , according to a fifteenth-century minstrel , in revenge for the killing of his own wife by the English — and been proclaimed an outlaw , he fled into Ettrick forest to assemble a force of rebels against the domination of English governors and garrisons . |
| 2 | DEMOS took just under 55 per cent of the vote in the Socio-Political Chamber elections , which according to a proportional representation system gave it 47 of the 80 seats . |
| 3 | Of the 90 members of the National Assembly , serving a four-year term , 40 were directly elected ; the remaining 50 were distributed by the Republican Electoral Commission according to a proportional representation system among those eight parties which had reached the threshold for parliamentary representation by winning 3 per cent or more of the vote . |
| 4 | According to a joint communiqué issued on Sept. 18 , a number of confidence-building measures were agreed including the release of detained Thai and Vietnamese fishermen and the granting of Thai citizenship to Vietnamese nationals who had fled to Thailand during the first Indo-China war . |
| 5 | A fifth round of talks was to be held in Seoul on Dec. 10-13 " to finalize the text " of the agreement , according to a joint communiqué on Oct. 24 . |
| 6 | The paper cups preferred by many environmentalists are far worse offenders , according to a Canadian study . |
| 7 | At the time of James II 's accession in 1685 , according to a Quaker petition , there were 1,460 Friends in prison . |
| 8 | MacLeay 's view of natural relationships presupposed that the living world is constructed according to a rational plan . |
| 9 | Anderson 's history must work according to a rational principle , the dialectic , and be moving towards an end which will reveal and enact its meaning . |
| 10 | According to a Pakistani commentary , Shahi appeared to be suggesting that once the neutrality of the area was ensured by the regional states pursuing a policy of strict non-alignment , the superpowers could perhaps be persuaded to work towards some sort of mutual accommodation . |
| 11 | One of the principle reasons for the development of anti-school attitudes amongst these young people is the separation and ranking of students according to a multiple set of criteria which make up the normative , academically oriented value system of the school . |
| 12 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |
| 13 | The terms of the Soviet plan , now made public , were that ( i ) Iraq would make a full and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait ; ( ii ) the withdrawal would start on the second day after hostilities ceased ; ( iii ) Iraqi forces would depart according to a fixed timetable ; ( iv ) after two-thirds of Iraqi forces had withdrawn economic sanctions against Iraq would be lifted ; ( v ) after all Iraqi forces had left all UN Security Council resolutions against Iraq would lapse ; ( vi ) all prisoners of war would be released when the ceasefire became effective ; ( vii ) the troop withdrawal would be monitored by forces from countries not involved in the conflict , under direction of the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) work on details and specifics would continue and would be presented on Feb. 22 to Security Council members . |
| 14 | We design and perform an experiment , or make observations , according to a preformed set of ideas or concepts in our mind . |
| 15 | According to a simple application of lapse theory , slow responses ought to be preceded by low voltage CNVs , while fast responses ( as quick as when rested ) should be preceded by high voltage CNVs similar to those recorded from rested subjects . |
| 16 | According to a simple version of the adaptive expectations hypothesis , the expected rate of inflation is revised each period by adding on some proportion ( say , w ) of the observed error in the previous period , where w lies between zero and one . |
| 17 | Non-demeaning offences are dealt with according to a simple lex talionis . |
| 18 | The Gulf crisis and economic recession prompted a fall in the number of individual working days lost through industrial action from 904,000 days in 1989 to 693,700 in 1990 — the lowest level of industrial action since 1946 according to a Labour Ministry report of late June 1991 . |
| 19 | Any study on the effects of radiation should include Harwell , according to a Labour County Councillor . |
| 20 | One knows , but according to a concrete mode . |
| 21 | According to a pre-Budget survey of Scotland 's top 300 companies , carried out by System 3 for the accountancy firm , Ernst & Young , 72 per cent of respondents think that a further cut in business rates would have a favourable effect on their company , though , surprisingly , 4 per cent believe it would have an adverse impact . |
| 22 | There are three standard sizes , numbered according to a quaint system followed by all major plane manufacturers . |
| 23 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 24 | To return to my Degas quote : many of the writers seem to be appropriating what they see as ‘ feminist tools of socio-political deconstruction ’ by examining details of Degas ' work according to a binary opposition of woman as object/man as Baudelairean flaneur . |
| 25 | In his highly condensed and powerful analysis , Buckley ( 1984 ) details how the siege becomes interpreted by today 's protestant loyalists according to a key paradigm mediating their experience of the world . |
| 26 | According to a disappointed editorial in The Economist ( 15 June 1985 ) history would judge the Thatcher government as only an averagely wet Tory administration' . |
| 27 | According to a front-page story in InfoWorld , Novell Inc has hired Ablondi & Foster , a law firm specialising in antitrust law , to round up expert witnesses against Microsoft for the FTC to use in its potential case . |
| 28 | But according to a front-page splash in Le Nouveau Quotidien , quoting a Swiss-based intelligence newsletter , Revue de la Sécurité , he was really MI6 's Geneva station chief . |
| 29 | * Explore how the text can be understood according to a classificatory system ( see pp. 54 – 5 ) . |
| 30 | Not so long ago , Western man believed that the Earth was flat , that the Earth was the centre of the universe , and that God had created the Earth in seven days according to a literal interpretation of a creation myth given in an old Jewish book . |