Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foresters , both riding and walking , and their pages take for a cart two , three or four shillings , from some more and from others less according to their means , and for a pack-horse twelve , sixteen or eighteen pence , to raise their fine which they have made with the warden for their appointment ; this to the great destruction of the King 's forest and the grievance of those who have woods in the forest , for they suffer the carriers to go quit all through the year without attachment , and yet the King has no profit … |
| 2 | The user is intended to behave exactly according to their instruction . |
| 3 | They are just demonstrating to their wives and girlfriends what good Europeans they are . |
| 4 | However , local authorities have had a duty , since 1968 , to provide adequate sites for gipsies normally resorting to their area and , where they have done so to the satisfaction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , they have criminal powers to remove illegal campers . |
| 5 | And it was presumably owing to their encouragement that in the 1540s Crecquillon began to compose chansons and Clemens and Gombert increased their production from a trickle to a flood . |
| 6 | In at least one study transformed cells harbouring mutant p53 and ras genes were capable of growing in syngeneic laboratory animals , eventually leading to their death . |
| 7 | So they 're still , they were still keeping to their aims of achieving greater equality , it was just not absolute equality egalitarianism . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In such circumstances , the counsellor is acting on behalf of the counsellees rather than directly according to their wishes . |
| 10 | Davidoff et al have shown that the Beau Ideal was underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service , although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And it can get awkward when people take things too Literally — you say , ‘ Hello , how are you ? ’ and twenty minutes later you 're still listening to their philosophy of life . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And cer the determination of the women , that we were n't gon na be starved back to work , we were n't gon na be forced back to work , we were n't just gon na end in chaos and some of us going back and some of us staying out , I think it was the women possibly talking to their husbands or , and just reassuring each other , you know that helped us no end . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Corbett struggled to his feet and stared around the hall where the rest of the sleepers there were slowly rising to their feet , some nursing sore heads , others bawling for wine and food . |
| 17 | Within any major class characterized on the basis of its gating properties subclasses can be defined according to their ionic selectivity , but also according to their er pharmacological properties , and especially as we 'll see in a second , according to their single channel conductance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Children will react differently according to their age , their personality , the relationship they have ( or had ) with both their parents , the presence or absence of brothers and sisters , aunts and uncles , grandparents or other significant people in their life ( Mitchell , 1985 ; Wallerstein and Kelly , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | This luxuriant multiplicity means , of course , that different parties will explain the same events differently according to their selective , subjective view of the situation . |
| 21 | Furthermore , there may be problems regarding context dependent effects , whereby letters are written differently according to their surrounding context . |
| 22 | Risks are perceived differently according to their scale and nature , and not by simply multiplying the frequency and consequences . |
| 23 | The infantry detailed to guard them let off only a couple of volleys before also taking to their heels . |
| 24 | Periodically they would devote an entire day to a communal fast , praying , reading aloud from the Bible , attending several sermons , and sharing a simple communal meal in the evening before returning to their homes . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Two men who had come in to quaff down great glasses of cidre were now returning to their scythes in a field opposite , to join a line of sodden reapers there . |
| 27 | Local villagers are prepared to sacrifice their lives rather than move to the inadequate , drought-prone resettlement areas ; many who moved to the resettlement areas in past years are now returning to their threatened villages . |
| 28 | One way of summarizing the results of European economic progress before 1914 is to group nations roughly according to their increase in wealth . |
| 29 | Companies which looked inwards to Whitehall are now listening to their customers and shareholders . |
| 30 | As with the shares of any quoted company , prices can vary quite substantially according to their supply and demand , which in turn can be determined by a variety of market factors . |