Example sentences of "[verb] according to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to examine in more detail the interaction between socio-political context , economic problems and educational policies pursued by governments , the case-study countries are grouped according to key problems and the variety of ways in which governments have attempted to deal with them . |
| 2 | Consciousness and matter interact according to this principle . |
| 3 | They were not , however , modified according to any consistent principle , but by a variety of ad hoc remedies . |
| 4 | In the poem Frost at Midnight Coleridge announced that his child Hartley was to be educated according to this theory , and Wordsworth , in writing about his own childhood , makes out a case that he was an example of the same process : The Prelude describes Wordsworth 's formative years from this point of view , and though the facts may be correct , the selection and emphasis of the facts is open to question . |
| 5 | Saddam Hussein proposed on Aug. 12 that all Middle Eastern occupation issues , or " issues that have been depicted as occupation " , should be resolved according to one set of UN Security Council principles . |
| 6 | Soon afterwards Saddam Hussein restated his Aug. 12 initiative , which proposed that all Middle Eastern occupation issues should be resolved according to one set of UN Security Council principles [ see p. 37635 ] . |
| 7 | Directors will only act according to professional standards of behaviour and the range of decisions available to them will be indicated by their own expertise . |
| 8 | Recognizing that people do act according to established beliefs and pre-existing knowledge systems , he focuses upon distinguishing between the establishment of those beliefs ( which he calls ‘ ideologies ’ ) and action in accordance with those beliefs . |
| 9 | It is for this reason we currently have the ludicrous situation of two record fish lists , one run by the National Anglers Council , which is a record of fish that were claimed in accordance with a set of inflexible rules , and one that is run by the National Association of Specialist Anglers , whose record fish appear according to individual merit , this merit being judged by highly experienced specialist anglers who know a ‘ con ’ when they see one and who would reject a claim if there were any doubt as to its truth . |
| 10 | The human development of the disabled person is highly respected , so SPRED groups are organised according to four age levels : 6–10 year olds ; 11–16 year olds : 17–21 year olds : 22 and over . |
| 11 | It follows that the methods by which gold was obtained differed according to social circumstances . |
| 12 | Picture cards These might be classified and sorted according to those that look alike , those that are of a particular colour or design , etc . |
| 13 | They might be sorted according to any combination of these , such as things which are ‘ green and made of metal ’ , but such sophisticated sorting is seldom within the range of the very young child . |
| 14 | It was for this reason that his master-class in Spanish history took the form of a film , Raza ; and for the same reason that the frequency of his appearances in the state-produced cinema newsreels , No-Do , varied according to external circumstances and internal convenience , increasing when things were going well , decreasing when they were not . |
| 15 | The selection of those who might have the right varied according to immediate tactics but , in general , Engels reserved his most withering scorn — and violent prejudice — for ‘ non-historical peoples ’ , |
| 16 | Under Dutch and early British rule their fortunes had varied according to colonial policy towards the cinnamon industry , which at that time provided most of the country 's export earnings . |
| 17 | Relations between the village Soviets and the peasants varied according to local socio-economic conditions , not only from one region of Russia to another , but even between Nikol'sk and Ivanovka , roughly 75 km. apart . |
| 18 | Redken products are only available from selected professional salons to ensure that they are correctly prescribed according to individual hair types and requirements . |
| 19 | In the reader-response tradition this space is then filled according to individual sensitivity . |
| 20 | A list of Cornish saints recently studied in an early tenth-century manuscript , where in several cases the saints are listed according to geographical contiguousness of parochial dedications , suggests that the parochial structure of Cornwall , as we know it today , was already in existence at that time . |
| 21 | As the school has staffing delegation it will adjust the number of staff by hiring or firing according to this movement of pupils and funding . |
| 22 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 23 | LEFT Our ideas of the appearance of our prehistoric ancestors change according to current social attitudes . |
| 24 | Experimentally , a series of concentrations is studied and the results treated according to one or other of the following virial expansions . |
| 25 | Those who exercise power or authority over others typically claim legitimacy for doing so , ie that their position and actions are justified according to recognised principles . |
| 26 | revolution has already happened , I mean according to this the , the landlord 's political power 's been smashed |
| 27 | Government agencies are created to perform according to different criteria from private business . |
| 28 | Since , however , cases concerning property which has devolved according to those provisions will for many years continue to come before the courts , they are summarized in a note at the end of the book . |
| 29 | In a society which has fully internalized the consequences of the Einsteinian revolution and its off-shoots , an epistemology based on the postulates of classical scientific models is unable to cope with social structures formed according to this new way of thinking . |
| 30 | It is now generally accepted that the universe evolves according to well-defined laws . |