Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [v-ing] to their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Papers are not necessarily priced according to their surfaces , Rough , Not or HP and it is worth looking carefully at the various makes and their qualities , as two papers may have similar characteristics but be quite different in price . |
| 2 | Children are generally classified according to their fathers ' occupations . |
| 3 | Politicians in Japan are generally promoted according to their age ; James Kondo , a Heisei reformer still in his 20s , goes by the title of ‘ senior policy analyst ’ . |
| 4 | These can be further distinguished according to their analysis of the relationship of state , society and economy and can be labelled variously as ‘ realist ’ , ‘ Marxist ’ , ‘ functionalist ’ , ‘ instrumentalist ’ or ‘ anarchist ’ . |
| 5 | He left them there for a few days , checking that the wasps still kept returning to their burrows . |
| 6 | The scientific achievements of the past were crudely evaluated according to their contribution to later knowledge . |
| 7 | Women 's increasing commitment to the labour market does not appear to pay off in the way that would be expected if people were actually rewarded according to their ability and effort . |