Example sentences of "accord [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one level that phrase indicates that it is the old person 's own independence which is being guarded , but on another level the idea of wanting to remain independent in old age is a way of according the proper independence to one 's children . |
| 2 | Unix workstations have n't made much headway into the European commercial marketplace , according a new report by IDC 's European Unix research centre . |
| 3 | By according a special priority to the practice of science , the relationist and perspectival impact of the sociology of knowledge was made redundant . |
| 4 | The importance of according a proper degree of independence to the adult child is one of these . |
| 5 | Elite theorists have always been fascinated by the phenomenon of political leadership , an orientation already reflected in their accounts of modern input politics which accord a primary role to political entrepreneurs in building up lobby groups or social movements , and to party leaders in shaping the development of mass ‘ public opinion ’ . |
| 6 | For example , if the Bushmen of the Kalahari , who live by hunting and gathering , accord a high status to women this , it was assumed , must also have been true of the hunters and gatherers of prehistoric times . |
| 7 | Two aspects of Morgan 's discussion of this question , a discussion that was almost as radical as that of Engels , must be distinguished , first the proposition that people with simple technology accord a high status to women , and second , that matriliny implies a high status for women . |
| 8 | On Jan. 30 , 1991 , the ruling Liberal Party in Quebec released a report which offered a " last chance " to Canada by demanding that the federal government accord a special status to Quebec whereby the province would have jurisdiction over almost all of its domestic affairs . |
| 9 | You know very well you should accord the French governor and his officials the same respect you show to me and your grandfather . |
| 10 | On the one hand , it accords no special status to police findings or to the police file . |
| 11 | However , such trust is not shown towards relatives and friends who assist suffering people in this way : they must run the gauntlet of a legal process which accords no formal recognition to the circumstances under which they killed . |
| 12 | The decision to accord a full chapter to it in the Constitution on the Church , and prior to that on the hierarchy , was symbolically one of the most important the Council ever took . |
| 13 | The idea that people operate ‘ strategies ’ in which they assess a range of options , and act to maximize their opportunities , has become an increasingly important insight in historical work on the family , and one which accords an active role to human beings in constructing their own lives , rather than seeing individuals at the mercy of large scale social forces ( Morgan , 1985 , p. 175 ) . |
| 14 | A series of French-established puppet governments has tended to enhance the prestige of Ho 's government and to call in to question , on the part of the Vietnamese , the sincerity of French intentions to accord an independent status to Vietnam . |
| 15 | ‘ The honour was accorded the poor debtors of being the first to enter the place of worship ’ , he said . |
| 16 | More particularly , and because Vietnam had already been accorded the key position in Southeast Asia , ‘ Soviet domination of the potential power of Eurasia , whether achieved by armed aggression or by political and subversive means , would be strategically and politically unacceptable to the US ’ . |
| 17 | A trade accord was signed in which each country accorded the other most-favoured-nation status . |
| 18 | Nasser must not be turned into a hero and gratuitously accorded the leading role in the Middle East . |
| 19 | John Ehrlichman , Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs , has provided vivid testimony of the low esteem accorded the legislative branch in the Nixon White House . |
| 20 | TEST cricket 's leading wicket-taker Sir Richard Hadlee has been accorded the unusual honour of having a pea named after him . |
| 21 | Children were accorded the intensive , individual right of self-expression . |
| 22 | After the United Nations was established in 1945 , ICAO was accorded the full status of a United Nations Agency . |
| 23 | Even those who are successful are rarely accorded the full credit given to their Japanese counterparts . |
| 24 | P.H. Sawyer has drawn attention to rune stones in Denmark and Västergötland raised in honour of men accorded the English epithet thegn , and concluded that the latter area was the part of Sweden controlled by Cnut , through agents who received a title borne in England by royal subordinates . |
| 25 | The 68-metre former oceanographic vessel was accorded a rousing welcome as it arrived in the northern Taiwan port of Keelung on May 13 to take on provisions and broadcasting equipment . |
| 26 | Edward , on the other hand , had always been accorded a mysterious potency : ‘ They do so depend on him at Croxford . ’ |
| 27 | According to his calculations , this means that the rest of the business is accorded a negative value by the market . |
| 28 | It was a mark of the esteem in which John Burridge was held at Selhurst Park , both as a goalkeeper and as a showman , that whenever he has subsequently returned here with his later clubs he has invariably been accorded a warm welcome , both from Palace fans and from his former playing colleagues . |
| 29 | that professionals may be , for whatever reason , accorded a legitimate autonomy ; |
| 30 | Music is generally accorded a low priority and is underfunded , and standards of performance are unsatisfactory in many places . |