Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] according to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I should pay according to my income and my neighbours according to theirs .
2 Regarding work with the children and the new families , my plea for a more sophisticated approach in assessing the needs of children and finding the appropriate routes to permanent placement for each child leads me to the conclusion that the nature of the social work service to each child and family must vary according to their needs and their wishes .
3 The type of care offered to children must vary according to their needs .
4 You must write according to your feelings , be sure those feelings are true , and let everything else go hang .
5 He appears progressive in advocating an income tax as the basis or an arrangement by which people might give according to their means and take according to their need , and sees this in terms of the possibilities of socialism , but at the same time he lends himself to a strong laissez-faire interpretation highly restrictive of the involvement of the state ( 1978 : 315–18 ) .
6 And Paul wrote that God would provide according to His riches .
7 He is sovereign and he will work according to his will .
8 Inevitably we would expect that those who freely accept the teaching of our Church will vote according to their consciences .
9 As we have seen elsewhere , the wording of statutes tends to be general and is therefore frequently ambiguous ; thus when a case revolves around what a statute actually says , judges have a good deal of discretion which they will exercise according to their view of what the law requires .
10 Response time to problems will vary according to their effect on the service provided .
11 The EEC itself levies a tax on imported food which will vary according to its price .
12 However , a given locality may be responsible for the provision of more than one local public good , and local public goods will differ according to their capacity limits and the congestion costs thereby created .
13 Real firms have to make decisions within a climate of uncertainty , and market outcomes will differ according to their attitudes to risk .
14 Individuals have different needs , and these will differ according to their situation and time of life : a young graduate may have a strong need to sense that she or he fits into an organisation , while a middle-aged employee facing redundancy may have future security as a main priority .
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