Example sentences of "according [prep] the [adj] theory " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoyle writes : ‘ My own recent work has caused me to doubt , not that evolution takes place , but that it takes place according to the usual theory of natural selection operating on randomly generated mutations . |
| 2 | According to the general theory of relativity , space-time is represented by a connected C ∞ Hausdorff manifold M together with a locally Lorentz metric g . |
| 3 | The ratio found between the delay observed and the delay expected according to the general theory was 1.000 ± 0.002 , which is another clear success for Einstein 's theory . |
| 4 | According to the neutral theory of molecular evolution , most ‘ substitutions ’ of amino acids — that is , the replacement of one amino acid by another at some site as the standard type in the population — are neutral . |
| 5 | According to the accepted theory , then , there was no such thing as time before the Big Bang . |
| 6 | It seems that those who try to live according to the official theory of schooling are subject to the same range of ritual abuse as the fans of another club . |
| 7 | According to the first theory , which is the one the Greeks themselves prefer , they behave as they do in the public side of life because of what history has done to them . |
| 8 | Then the masses of the W and Z particles should relate in a precise way according to the electro-weak theory . |
| 9 | A piece of gold has solidity , extension , shape , ‘ mobility ’ ( is in motion or at rest ) , and ‘ number ’ ( is one piece ) , and according to the corpuscular theory the gold 's corpuscles have these qualities too . |
| 10 | According to the corpuscular theory these secondary ( and tertiary ) qualities arise from the arrangement , the ‘ texture ’ , of the solid , shaped , and mobile corpuscles which constitute gold , and so are not to be attributed to the corpuscles themselves . |
| 11 | According to the Keynesian theory , firms and households will attempt to run down the excess money balances they are being forced to hold by buying bonds . |
| 12 | According to the special theory of relativity , nothing can travel faster than light , so that if light can not escape , nothing else can either . |
| 13 | However , we will show that the mental model plays a role in the interpretation of anaphors that ought , according to the linguistic theory , to be interpreted with reference to a superficial representation only , and vice versa . |
| 14 | According to the well-established theory of Huxley and Hanson , contraction of the fibril is due to the sliding of the actin and myosin filaments relative to each other *Hanson , 1956 ; Pringle , 1966 ; Osborne , 1967 ) ; the actin filaments move further into the A-disk while the myosin filaments thus approach the Z-disks . |
| 15 | We have seen in this chapter that , according to the neo-classical theory , flexible wages and prices ensure that the labour market is in equilibrium — in other words , full employment is assured in the long-run . |
| 16 | The alternative view is that the state comes into being and is maintained as an instrument of domination , as a result either of the internal differentiation of society into dominant and subordinate classes ( according to the Marxist theory ) , or of the imposition of the rule of one group of people upon another by conquest ( as Oppenheimer argued ) . |
| 17 | According to the hylemorphic theory of the scholastics , each individual thing or substance is a combination of ‘ matter ’ ( hyle ) and ‘ form ’ ( morphe ) , and it is because something has the form it has , that it is the kind of thing it is . |