Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to their [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Crowther Committee on Consumer Credit ( 1971 ) Cmnd 4596 , recommended that transactions should be dealt with not according to their legal form , but according to their economic substance . |
| 2 | ‘ Persons in my position customarily wed , not according to their own choosing — but in accordance with the wishes or indeed the ambitions of their elders . |
| 3 | Official studies show that 70 per cent of Soviets estimate that they are not working to their full capacity , only nine per cent aspire to posts with greater responsibility , while 13 per cent actually prefer jobs with less responsibility , even if they are less well paid . |
| 4 | This is consistent with the view that the structure of section 18 is related to the status of both parties ( as assisted or unassisted ) and operates differentially according to their relative status at different stages of the proceedings . |
| 5 | The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such , more like crustaceans , specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature , but still clinging to their old habitat , sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore . |
| 6 | The hierarchical reductionist , on the other hand , explains a complex entity at any particular level in the hierarchy of organization , in terms of entities only one level down the hierarchy ; entities which , themselves , are likely to be complex enough to need further reducing to their own component parts ; and so on . |
| 7 | Furthermore , there may be problems regarding context dependent effects , whereby letters are written differently according to their surrounding context . |
| 8 | Both Gerrard and his opposite number Bryan Gunn made outstanding saves in a thrilling climax to the game , and Norwich manager Mike Walker feels his side are now returning to their early season form . |