Example sentences of "accord [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 can be the same inside leg measurement , but different heights , so I said yes that 's true , it 's all according how long or short you are in the body and I said my son 's short in the waist
2 The principle behind Article 11 is to allow States which already accord more generous treatment to a dispossessed owner , to retain that treatment .
3 Labour law accords very different rights to each category .
4 As Roberts notes , ‘ there is nothing about these concepts as such … , which excludes either women or a feminist analysis … but traditionally , studies of sexual divisions have been accorded somewhat low status and certainly seen as peripheral to the central concerns of the subject ’ ( Roberts , 1981b , p. 75 ) .
5 So great was the prestige of such institutions that a so-called ‘ mitred abbot ’ in Ireland was accorded unusually high official status — a status equal , in the ecclesiastical hierarchy to that of a bishop .
6 As a result , the main criterion was based on estimated teaching activity with past research performance apparently being accorded relatively little weight . ’
7 Indeed , these comparisons could be dangerous if they are accorded too great a prominence in an analysis of the impact of money wage-price deflation on employment .
8 Free individual choice in matters affecting this right should , in my opinion , be accorded very high priority .
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