Example sentences of "and [vb base] according to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wake and sleep according to the sun 's cycle , and research is showing that celestial rhythms still control many other areas of our life . |
| 2 | Such a situation is one which allows other countries to put aside international law and act according to their own judgments . |
| 3 | impersonal nature : employees work full time within the impersonal rules and regulations and act according to formal , impersonal procedures ; |
| 4 | Givon typifies this approach in that he scales make , have and cause according to " two semantic properties that are universally attested : ( a ) intended ( controlled ) vs unintended ( uncontrolled ) causation … ; ( b ) mediated vs direct causation " ( 1980 : 335 ) . |
| 5 | 6 Individual voters are rational and informed ; they have an appreciation of their own best interests ; and so they give the parties programatic support and vote according to the parties ' past or prospective action in office in the light of their own knowledge and interests . |
| 6 | Then an appendix , a disc list , gives every known issue and reissue according to the same numbering , a sensible practice . |
| 7 | Adoption prices start at £20 per year and vary according to the species concerned ; some are more ‘ value for money ’ than others . |
| 8 | It should be stressed that these figures are all approximate and vary according to your personal lifestyle . |
| 9 | ‘ Slow down , take care and drive according to the conditions . |
| 10 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB is in talks with Hewlett-Packard Co on the formation of a joint venture in the area of telecommunications network management and control according to Swedish sources whose information has not been denied by the protagonists . |
| 11 | Employment for life and pay according to age should produce an earnings curve that rises steadily from recruitment to retirement . |
| 12 | Some thirteen investigators from seven institutions have been brought together to examine various dimensions of the data set ; some of the areas to be covered will be public sector/ private sector relationships , manual skill differentials , sex differentials , white-collar pay movements , the dispersion of pay , pay in relation to hours worked , shift work and incentive pay , the role of national collective agreements , and pay according to region , age and size of plant . |
| 13 | The main cause of these differences is the hotel guests who come and go according to their own personal arrangements and who quite rightly expect high standards and quality service to be maintained throughout their stay . |
| 14 | Bear in mind that , while we may group and classify according to this or that pruning rule , you must expect to meet exceptions . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |