Example sentences of "according to [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dress was not made according to a man 's stereotype of how a woman should look , although Laura believed that the covered-up , ‘ floaty ’ look was what men liked .
2 This might be according to whether the client is new to the bureau or not , whether the enquiry is new or a continuing problem , or according to a client 's age , sex , origin , economic activity or area of residence .
3 Ten years on , the situation was different but , according to a People 's Daily editorial entitled ‘ A Great Decade ’ ( 22. 12. 1988 ) .
4 The Queen 's Corgis are officially more popular than her husband , according to a children 's survey carried out by the car firm , Toyota .
5 According to an engineer 's report , the welds have been made brittle as a result of neutron bombardment .
6 Mr Threlfall said that according to the service 's records the response time to the incident had been 24 minutes .
7 MORE than a million people in southern Ethiopia are at risk of starvation in a famine that has killed 5,000 in five months , according to the country 's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission .
8 Although it said that he would be ‘ interrogated and tried according to the country 's law ’ , to AI 's knowledge no formal charges have been brought against him in court .
9 Pollution in industrial areas of China is resulting in widespread health problems , according to the country 's National Institute of Environmental Health and Engineering .
10 Australia has the world 's highest per capita rates of greenhouse gas emissions , according to the country 's Bureau of Statistics .
11 The poaching of elephants and the illegal trading of ivory is on the increase in Tanzania , according to the country 's wildlife department .
12 These new procedures were drawn up by the company itself , according to the council 's senior counsel .
13 According to the Council 's general programme for the abolition of restrictions on freedom of establishment ( Official Journal , English Special Edition , Second Series IX , p. 7 ) , ‘ establishment ’ is defined in terms of ‘ installation en vue d'exercer une activité non salariée sur le territoire d'un Etat membre ’ ( rendered in English as ‘ [ persons wishing ] to establish themselves in order to pursue activities as self-employed persons in a member state ’ ) .
14 THE number of children on Wirral 's child protection register has jumped 10% in a year , according to the council 's annual social services report .
15 The effect or mood created can be varied considerably , according to the composer 's aesthetic aims , from a mildly piquant flavour , through rough , spiky textures , to sensations of mordant , acrid harshness .
16 In the " Old Rental " of 1682 certain properties were described as " Proper lands " and were " supposed " to be the benefaction of Sir Edmond ; according to the Goldsmiths ' records they were yielding only 56 13 4d a year between 1671 and 1720 , or only a little more than half as much again as the rent receivable two centuries earlier .
17 Homework should be differentiated according to the learners ' ability .
18 According to the state 's traffic planning department , traffic calming had improved the economic performance of cities like Dusseldorf .
19 According to the company 's 1989 report , Mr Shaw 's salary , paid in Canadian dollars and equivalent to C$993,000 , rose from £348,000 in 1988 .
20 The power output at 900rpm was 25hp and the maximum pulling power was 3000lb , enough to handle the two-furrow plough unit in the most difficult soil conditions , according to the company 's publicity .
21 But over the last year there was a 3.3 percent decline in prices , compared with 2 percent for 1990 , according to the company 's business facts , which puts the average price at £128,598 .
22 This , according to the company 's marketing executive Vanessa Lowe , is the latest trend in the sector .
23 THE POWER of design : one in four people drinking from cans adorned with Pepsi 's new logo believe the cola tastes better , according to the company 's market researchers .
24 The court was not asked to rule on any of Unix Labs 's trade secrets claims , according to the company 's chief counsel , Sandy Tannenbaum .
25 Concurrent 's recovery is now well under way , according to the company 's director of worldwide industry marketing and business development , Dennis Tinley .
26 According to the company 's product manager , Howard Green , ‘ it 's a fair assumption to make that the company will be doing implementations for the Alpha , but we 're still negotiating terms . ’
27 It is the terms for the conversion of the convertible redeemable preference shares that provide the mechanism whereby the interests of the management vary according to the company 's performance .
28 Yet by no means everything went according to the management 's plans .
29 Only one in seven companies plan to raise domestic prices in the next four months , according to the CBI 's latest survey .
30 For example in the UK , the range of vocabulary can be indicative of level of education attained ; this can influence the type of job procured which determines economic bracket of income and in turn determines the person 's social class according to the Registrar-General 's classification ( p. 272 ) .
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