Example sentences of "according to [pron] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , Customs ' policy is to allow VAT incurred on holding company activities , unless it relates to exempt transactions , to be treated as a general overhead and recoverable according to its overall partial exemption status . |
| 2 | The BTG 's job , according to its latest annual report , is ‘ to promote the development of technology throughout British industry and to advance the use of British technology throughout the world ’ . |
| 3 | Scruton seeks to build an explicitly conservative sexual ethic on the Hegelian proposition that ‘ the final end of every rational being is the building of the self — of a recognisable personal entity , which flourishes according to its own autonomous nature ’ ( p. 299 ) . |
| 4 | But they also held that the universe itself was rather like a vast machine , which , once started off , ran according to its own inbuilt laws and patterns . |
| 5 | ‘ She uses me according to her own sweet nature , and could do no other for her life . |
| 6 | Today it means in terms of a hierarchy of pedagogical responsibilities that the individual and the individual family have a primary role , which they carry out through contracting and engaging for specific purposes the services of ‘ free ’ organizations according to their private ideological orientation , and only as a last resort does the state intervene directly . |
| 7 | Some countries conduct all foreign trade through state corporations which assess needs according to their current economic development programmes . |
| 8 | It would seem more likely to simply be an automatic adjustment according to their immediate sensory experience and instinctive intent . |
| 9 | Liabilities should be classified as current or non-current according to their strict contractual maturity , except where the same lender is firmly committed to refinance the debt on the same terms . |
| 10 | The same environmental phenomena will therefore be perceived differently by a young child and an adult , according to their respective assimilatory capabilities . |
| 11 | Against this must be weighed the economic instability which will occur as countries lose the ability to manage their economies according to their own individual needs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , Sartre was no more prepared than Merleau-ponty to return to what he characterized as Marxist organicism , in which the laws of history unfold according to their own autonomous momentum . |
| 14 | Other creatures , according to their own tattvic tapestry , will have communications to make to each other which reflect that inward condition . |
| 15 | More revisionist radical elite theorists have an alternative concept , ‘ technocracy ’ , to describe administrative elites who operate primarily in their own interests , or according to their own professional norms , rather than being beholden to outside elites . |
| 16 | In Scotland , local government services were provided by parishes , county commissioners of supply , and burghs which were ‘ governed according to their own different constitution ’ . |
| 17 | All they are doing — and with some remarkable individual variation — is responding to selected notes from the great array that music offers them , according to their own instinctive system of sound signals . |
| 18 | Other creatures , according to their own instinctive mind structure , have similar social contacts . |
| 19 | And , finally , according to their own motivational accounts it is more often the lifestyle and the hassle of being dependent on a drug which is illegal , expensive and difficult to obtain which users regard as ‘ the problem ’ rather than heroin itself . |
| 20 | [ 6 ] Using this mechanism , encoders are at liberty to define arbitrarily complex bundles or sets of features identified in a text , according to their own methodological bias . |
| 21 | They perceive things according to their own inward nature and outer form . |
| 22 | What is the criterion according to which some perceptual experiences are included in the set and others are excluded ? |
| 23 | The theory , if such it can be called , which underwrote this use of the survey , was a " naive empiricist structuralism " according to which social structural facts about a society were susceptible to factual observation and description using the survey method . |
| 24 | You 're for real , or what we call real , according to our limited sensory equipment . |
| 25 | Even with those creatures we assume to be our closest animal relatives , the chimpanzees and the great apes , we are forced into interpreting their signs and signals according to our own mental patterns . |
| 26 | I 'm for real — or what I call real , according to my limited sensory equipment . |
| 27 | Using it as a NetWare 3.11 server , its performance was actually slightly worse than the RSC which lacked the bonus of local bus , according to my own multiple file read/write tests . |
| 28 | This means , according to my solar powered calculator , three per cent of each person 's employed time or 770 million working days each year engaged in training . |
| 29 | In it he asks her father 's help for one of the other prisoners , saying ‘ that he had helped him ‘ according to his own willing poverty ’ . |