Example sentences of "[adv] according to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The altruistic model , where the solicitor acts only according to his instructions in the client 's best interests , is the source of the profession 's ‘ charismatic authority ’ . |
| 2 | Choose your type of moisturiser , not only according to your skin type , but also in relation to the climate . |
| 3 | That we may work together according to your will so that you may work for good in us . |
| 4 | The foresters , both riding and walking , and their pages take for a cart two , three or four shillings , from some more and from others less according to their means , and for a pack-horse twelve , sixteen or eighteen pence , to raise their fine which they have made with the warden for their appointment ; this to the great destruction of the King 's forest and the grievance of those who have woods in the forest , for they suffer the carriers to go quit all through the year without attachment , and yet the King has no profit … |
| 5 | In a grammatical gender language , nouns are placed in classes not according to their meaning but according to their form — for example , the patterning of their inflectional endings — and the way they behave when it comes to the agreement of adjectives , articles and pronouns ( the technical term for this is ‘ concord ’ ) . |
| 6 | Not according to our sources at the company . |
| 7 | Not according to our sources at the company . |
| 8 | On 5 July Charles himself declared , ‘ I have bounded the Forests , not according to my right , but according to late customs ’ . |
| 9 | You do not think like a civilised man , although your behaviour has become civilised , and so he can not ascribe to your actions motives which are suspect — or not according to his understanding . ’ |
| 10 | This is one of the problems under which the law labours , because of course , if we did n't accept that it 's individual guilt that counts , and we looked to group guilt , then that in itself is an infringement of civil liberties and human rights , you are being judged not according to your acts but according to the acts of others erm with whom you happened to associate , even though your conduct may not in itself be reprehensible . |
| 11 | In Europe terrorist groups were bombing capitalist targets ; in London psychologists were saying you had to live your own life in your own way and not according to your family , or you 'd go mad . |
| 12 | The user is intended to behave exactly according to their instruction . |
| 13 | A notable feature of the Maya calendar was the era known as the ‘ Long Count ’ , a day-count which began from a conventional starting-point believed to be 10 August 3113 BC according to our calendar . |
| 14 | He would ride the boy on his shoulders or shove him roughly aside according to his mood . |
| 15 | In such circumstances , the counsellor is acting on behalf of the counsellees rather than directly according to their wishes . |
| 16 | Davidoff et al have shown that the Beau Ideal was underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service , although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy . |
| 17 | As a result of these specific , socially constructed functions : ‘ Speech is often evaluated socially according to its closeness to the written language , which explains why standard spoken English is probably closer to written English than is any other spoken variety . |
| 18 | And community research will no longer be artificially divided up according to what proportion of the bill the Commission pays . |
| 19 | ‘ Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths , but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs , that it may benefit those who listen . ’ |
| 20 | CISCO is seeking division of the Official List into segments with categories of companies set up according to their market capitalisation . |
| 21 | The law ought , in my opinion , to give relief if satisfied that consent was truly lacking but will require of signers even in this class that they act responsibly and carefully according to their circumstances in putting their signature to legal documents . |
| 22 | Risks are perceived differently according to their scale and nature , and not by simply multiplying the frequency and consequences . |
| 23 | Children will react differently according to their age , their personality , the relationship they have ( or had ) with both their parents , the presence or absence of brothers and sisters , aunts and uncles , grandparents or other significant people in their life ( Mitchell , 1985 ; Wallerstein and Kelly , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | Differences between the three main systems in use mainly concern punctuation , use of parentheses and the order of elements which must be cited ; but while these may seem small discrepancies , it is one part of the process of research to assess at some point the different conventions governing the listing and presentation of sources , and to present work accurately according to whatever set of conventions you are following . |
| 25 | But if within modern languages ( to keep , for the moment , to this example ) a candidate for the GCSE were permitted to offer , as part of the evidence that went towards his certificate , the grades he had achieved in tests , starting from the most elementary and progressing upwards according to his ability , the ‘ differentiation ’ problem would be virtually solved . |
| 26 | One way of summarizing the results of European economic progress before 1914 is to group nations roughly according to their increase in wealth . |
| 27 | So the animals were n't treated er roughly according to our animal behaviourist here . |
| 28 | Now according to your theory that you were applying to that |
| 29 | Sophie 's , Kosta , Steriotis , Avra , Aspasia and Feredinos are ‘ B ’ houses , allocated mainly according to which activity you 're booked on . |
| 30 | To handle multiple transmission formats , the merged system will use source-adaptive processing — so that the set will handle the signal appropriately according to its type . |