Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] according to " in BNC.

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1 Between four and eight sectors will be flown , but occasionally either more or less according to season .
2 Cut the salmon into thinnish steaks , arrange them in one layer in a well-buttered baking dish , sprinkle them with salt and seasonings , add about I oz. of fresh butter , cut in pieces , for every pound of salmon , cover the dish with buttered paper and a lid , and put to cook in the centre of a moderately heated oven , gas no. 3 , 330 F. In 45 to 50 minutes — a little more or less according to the thickness of the steaks — the salmon will be cooked .
3 The remainder , together with the open arable field , he divided into small squarish fields of eight to twelve acres each ( sometimes more or less according to the convenience of the farmers ) and parcelled out as farms among his tenants .
4 American troops were deployed more or less according to a plan , Operation 90–1002 , developed in the early-1980s to contain a southward thrust by the Soviet Union .
5 ‘ A judicial view of modern legislation ’ is a title ingeniously contrived to embrace little or much according to the predilection of the speaker and the patience of his audience .
6 The individual would move up or down according to merit .
7 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 . ’
8 Waste in the first category may be minimised by installing automatic light controls ; turning lighting on or off according to the measured light levels .
9 There are two common types both of which can be switched on or off according to need .
10 On bushes and standards , prune strong new stems to 4–6in , shorten weaker growths and remove very spindly tips on climbers ; shorten weak growth by half and stronger stems by a third or more according to desired height .
11 er in or out according to where he wants them to flicker , well you see , as it , as the wearing get hot , that plastic expands and become loose and he 's got a , a split , see that steel thing
12 Relationships with that partner may be judged successful or otherwise according to the ways in which they duplicate , replace or compensate for parental relationships .
13 The idea was this : When the star becomes small , the matter particles get very near each other , and so according to the Pauli exclusion principle , they must have very different velocities .
14 The race has to be held between noon and 1pm according to tradition , so weighing in takes place between 10.30am and 11.30am .
15 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 .
16 On the contrary , all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe .
17 A queue is a sequence of individuals , arranged according to time of arrival , and not according to size or strength , such that the first in the queue has prior access to some resource .
18 Each child is entitled : to be loved and to feel loved , to feel secure , to be well nourished , to be protected , to be recognised and respected , to be praised , to experience responsibility for oneself and for others , to have opportunities to explore and be imaginative , time to explore their own feelings , space to develop emotionally , physically , spiritually , intellectually and socially according to their individual talents .
19 The years were not numbered in a linear succession but according to a particular pharaoh 's reign , each mounting the throne in the year 1 , and also according to the levy of taxes .
20 Speaking of ex united players , how much was Cuntona valued at and also according to the sun today ( come on Sean there 's no excuse for buying the Torygraph the Sun 's only 20P ! ! )
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 It should therefore be advertised internally and externally according to agreed recruitment practices , to adhere to CA 's equal opportunities policy .
23 First , they will be required to distribute most ( possibly around three-quarters ) of these funds ( the ‘ aggregated schools budget ’ ) between schools strictly and even-handedly according to a formula , to be devised by each LEA but requiring approval by the DES .
24 And whether he were not in this dilemma ; that either his estate might enure for life , at his option ; and then according to Lord Coke such an estate would , in legal contemplation , be an estate for life ; which could not be created by parol : or if not for life , being for no assignable period , it must operate as a tenancy from year to year ; in which case it would be inconsistent with , and repugnant to the nature of such an estate , that it should not be determinable at the pleasure of either party giving the regular notice .
25 The Nuffield hospital says sessions on the scanner are allocated first according to urgency , and then according to who 's placed contracts for scans with the hospital .
26 The patients were classified in two ways : firstly into four groups based on their most prominent presenting symptom , and secondly according to the presence or absence of neurological deficit .
27 Yes , you could have sex there , in the toilets , but only according to certain rules .
28 A somewhat unusual system one might think : but not according to the papal encyclical Quadragesimo Anno of 1931 .
29 At the point of a gun , says one author but not according to Bao Dai himself .
30 They also tend to ‘ use up ’ remedies quickly which may need repeating several times an hour at first but always according to the changes in the symptom picture .
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