Example sentences of "according to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both full- and part-time work is carefully organised according to the availability and skills of each volunteer . |
| 2 | The critical promoter of the work of Seurat and his friends was Félix Fénéon , a subtle stylist who varied his methods according to the work he was describing ; he used expository language for Degas , but he dropped logical connection in language , even verbs when discussing Monet 's spontaneous art . |
| 3 | According to the motto , the words carved in granite outside our dock gates , a settlement in Africa raises no doubts : the great Roman god approves of the mingling of peoples and the making of treaties in Africa . |
| 4 | According to the Guardian , the New Year 's Honours list of 1988 in Britain contained a knighthood for ‘ Professor Albert Maillard , the Oxford historian ’ . |
| 5 | According to the narrator , Patrick is ‘ so far from being anti-semitic that a couple of his best friends really were Jews ’ ( but who can these two best friends be — can Ormerod , unmentioned in the later novel , be one ? ) . |
| 6 | Many of the actions performed by many women , according to the misogynists he likes to write about , are performed by many men , and many ugly people would appear to be just as happy , and just as emotionally fulfilled , as many lovely ones . |
| 7 | The Facts is preoccupied with one shiksa in particular : the deadly Josie , whom Roth marries , who forces his hand in the matter by faking an abortion , who comes near to destroying him , and who may have been , according to the Zuckerman letter at the end of the book , an alcoholic . |
| 8 | In the first place you will start to think about how an actor 's work differs according to the demands of the medium . |
| 9 | Notice how some of the words when repeated are better spoken than at other times , according to the level of passion in the delivery . |
| 10 | A somewhat unusual system one might think : but not according to the papal encyclical Quadragesimo Anno of 1931 . |
| 11 | According to the Liberal-Irish alliance , the Irish party was supposed to abstain from the 1901 Conservative bill , aimed at bringing denominational schools in England and Wales into the national education system while at the same time absenting them from local government control : that is , giving finance while maintaining the system of denominational clerical control . |
| 12 | Again , according to Bernstein ( 1975 ) , Ball ( 1981 ) , and many more , schooling can have opposite effects on children according to whether children have been socialized into working-class or middle-class aspirations , and according to the actual way the schooling process is structured by the state , the teachers , and the subject-disciplines . |
| 13 | In the UK , franchising has always played a significant role , although relations between franchisor and franchisee have not always been smooth , according to the report . |
| 14 | ‘ According to the latest Euromonitor report on the international pasta market , each British consumer eats 3.3kg of pasta a year . |
| 15 | This , according to the company , gives the pasta a home-made look and a porosity which allows better sauce absorption . |
| 16 | ‘ According to the pathologist , the timing is wrong for her being poisoned except at the meal . |
| 17 | In consequence , according to the rule book , I now had to be taken seriously . |
| 18 | The control movements needed to achieve this vary according to the configuration of the undercarriage . |
| 19 | With any type of aircraft the characteristics of a spin vary according to the loading , so that the spin becomes flatter as the c.g. is moved back . |
| 20 | Most have a Sun Protection Factor number , according to the level of protection they give . |
| 21 | The length of your stance will therefore vary according to the length of your legs . |
| 22 | time the block according to the opponent 's technique |
| 23 | The length of your step should be tailored according to the distance you are away from your opponent . |
| 24 | According to the kind of constructivism that I am espousing , the holism of the mental is logically and developmentally dependent upon the holism of directed action . |
| 25 | According to the functionalist , of course , facial expression and lip-reading are likely to be dealt with by distinct parts of the information-processing system because the nature of the information that they convey is so different . |
| 26 | In other words , according to the neurophysiological CTP , sensation , perception , experience , consciousness , are intimately related to , or even boil down to , large numbers of trains or patterns of nerve impulses . |
| 27 | According to the Muller doctrine , sensory endings are particularly sensitive to certain types of energy — light energy in the case of retinal endings , sound energy in the case of cochlear endings , and so on - and that when they , or their central connections , are stimulated a specific modality of sensation is experienced . |
| 28 | According to the Weber-Fechner law , there is a correlation between the intensity of the energy incident on the sense ending and the magnitude of the corresponding subjective experience . |
| 29 | As we are discussing groundstroke skills , I think it is important to stress that at the beginning , according to the shape of shot that you have — whether it be topspin , slice or flat — you can insist on slice only , topspin only , or on hitting your favoured shot . |
| 30 | According to the manufacturer , the bevels on the Cogelow tools need only honing to be perfect . |