Example sentences of "[adv] according [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them are ‘ common ’ sails , in which slats could be adjusted manually according to the speed and direction of the wind . |
| 2 | ‘ So according to the Milettis , what have we got ? ’ |
| 3 | Although their long galleries and multitude of rooms provided a greater degree of privacy for the gentry families , the homes were still very much public places , the more so according to the rank of the owner . |
| 4 | So according to the letter someone called The Guv'nor did it himself . ’ |
| 5 | It was all according to the plan . |
| 6 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 7 | It was appreciated at an early stage that the efficacy of collocational information could vary greatly according to the domain from which it was taken . |
| 8 | ‘ A judicial view of modern legislation ’ is a title ingeniously contrived to embrace little or much according to the predilection of the speaker and the patience of his audience . |
| 9 | Cut the salmon into thinnish steaks , arrange them in one layer in a well-buttered baking dish , sprinkle them with salt and seasonings , add about I oz. of fresh butter , cut in pieces , for every pound of salmon , cover the dish with buttered paper and a lid , and put to cook in the centre of a moderately heated oven , gas no. 3 , 330 F. In 45 to 50 minutes — a little more or less according to the thickness of the steaks — the salmon will be cooked . |
| 10 | The remainder , together with the open arable field , he divided into small squarish fields of eight to twelve acres each ( sometimes more or less according to the convenience of the farmers ) and parcelled out as farms among his tenants . |
| 11 | The colour may be varied perhaps according to the type of tools put out with it ; ‘ natural ’ for pastry cutters and patty tins , for instance . |
| 12 | Typical lengths are between 100 and 200 metres whilst widths vary quite widely according to the number of racks and cranes in the system . |
| 13 | The police say the the Baroness was dealt with properly according to the law . |
| 14 | He points out first that those who are aware of the finer points of history will know that in former days ( or " the earliest days ' : the meticulous ulema were authorized to give fetvas individually according to the requirement of a particular time . |
| 15 | Serious cinema 's attempts to portray sexual passion have generally succeeded best according to the extent they have ignored this temptation : think of Brando , obese , with straggling grey hair and face plastered with pan-stick , howling obscenities as he floors Maria Schneider ; or Dennis Hopper , jumping on Isabella Rossellini like a mad dog with velvet , scissors , and mask . |
| 16 | Our embalming supplies companies have produced a ‘ Dositube ’ which is a glass tube containing a substance which samples the air and changes colour progressively according to the amount of formaldehyde gas present in the atmosphere of the theatre . |
| 17 | Thus according to the Child Poverty Action Group ( CPAG ) ‘ poverty is viewed in relation to a generally accepted standard of living in a particular society that goes beyond basic physical needs ’ to include ‘ broader social and cultural needs ’ as well . |
| 18 | However , despite the existence of these theoretical quotas agreed at OPEC Conferences or at meetings of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee ( MMC-see p. 36573 ) , actual aggregate output was generally understood to have been well in excess of quota ; thus according to the Petroleum Economist OPEC production was estimated to have averaged 21,672,000 bpd in the second half of 1988 , 21,266,000 bpd in the first half of 1989 and about 23,000,000 bpd in the third quarter of 1989 . |
| 19 | The choice of this unyielding , deeply religious man for this particular post was a sharp reminder that , when it came to how Spaniards viewed their own country and the outside world , and to how outsiders would see Spain , their opinions would still be shaped from above according to the scale of values which had informed the Franco regime from the start . |
| 20 | Effective power ( W E ) was determined by the proportion of the total average velocity resulting from basal sliding so that the ratio W T /WE could vary largely according to the proportion of basal slip to internal ice deformation . |
| 21 | Opted-out schools are funded directly according to the number of pupils they attract . |
| 22 | TRGs is a concept , first identified by Gambling ( 1987 ) in which patients are classified more according to the treatment they receive than according to their clinical classification . |
| 23 | He describes a ‘ good-enough mother ’ ( i.e. , a mother as good at being a mother as any of us can expect either to have or to be ) as someone who ‘ starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant 's needs , and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely , gradually according to the infant 's growing ability to deal with her failure . ’ |
| 24 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 25 | Three models were found : a minimalist model based on limited contact between police officers and social workers through formal channels strictly according to the minimum demanded by procedural dictates ; a collaborative model involving close consultations on an informal as well as formal basis , about progress and proposed courses of action ; and an integrated model involving joint simultaneous investigation as a single operational entity . |
| 26 | Speaking of ex united players , how much was Cuntona valued at and also according to the sun today ( come on Sean there 's no excuse for buying the Torygraph the Sun 's only 20P ! ! ) |
| 27 | The years were not numbered in a linear succession but according to a particular pharaoh 's reign , each mounting the throne in the year 1 , and also according to the levy of taxes . |
| 28 | The Stock Exchange Quotation Department is organised into various listing groups alphabetically according to the name of the listed ( target ) company . |
| 29 | Individual colleges and institutes vary both according to the proportion of advanced work which they provide and also the types of courses which they offer , depending partly on the nature of the institutions which went to make them up and partly on the way in which they have developed in the past few years . |
| 30 | Well it should dry out later according to the weather forecast . |