Example sentences of "be [adj] accord to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Reports of the funding , which had been illicit according to the law of the former Soviet Union , had begun to emerge in recent months , and the Russian government hoped that some of the money might be recoverable .
2 Secondly , the decisions must be about units which are self-contained according to the problem definition .
3 My purpose here is simply to draw attention to two things : first , the danger of oversimplifying the task of evaluation by using a single measure ( for example reading test scores — themselves of dubious validity ) to measure the effectiveness of a practice with much more complex aims ; and second , to emphasise how the evaluation task may be different according to the approach to support teaching which we adopt .
4 First of all , while records of achievement aim to describe individuals in a sufficiently detailed way to prevent comparison between them , GCSE results are still basically hierarchical in that a series of grades is involved and pupils will still be comparable according to the grade achieved .
5 The angle of the blade is adjustable according to the adhesion and type of material to be stripped .
6 As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country .
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