Example sentences of "accord [prep] their " in BNC.
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1 | What the protestant loyalists in effect seek to maintain is protestant — loyalist domination within a flexible territory , one which they feel justified in calling their land and ruling according to their conscience . |
2 | Inevitably we would expect that those who freely accept the teaching of our Church will vote according to their consciences . |
3 | I am conscious that to question publicly the established methods of English study is to lay oneself open to the charge of giving aid and comfort to the philistines and utilitarians who want to remake higher education according to their own ideals , if that is the word for them . |
4 | He frets that , when it comes to the point , the requirements for SATs may not tally with the requirements for GCSE ; that he may have to regroup the whole school to align pupils according to their ability rather than their age . |
5 | They had to take many economic decisions in the course of each annual cycle , and according to their status and wealth they made different decisions from one another in various places and over the year . |
6 | For example , some hunting and gathering peoples , who according to their scheme would not be expected to have slavery , seem to have had large numbers of slaves . |
7 | According to their calculations , they are asking a fair rate . |
8 | By giving through a central fund to which all give according to their means and from which those in need receive , we fulfil our Lord 's precept : Do not let your right hand know what your left is doing . |
9 | Widnes meantime , according to their coach , Doug Laughton , have accused the League of treating them ‘ shabbily ’ over the Joe Grima affair , perhaps the most two-faced quote of the Eighties . |
10 | The cabinet that was announced on December 29th is like most other Japanese cabinets in which posts are distributed among the main factions according to their size . |
11 | According to the capital-adequacy regime negotiated under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) in Basle , banks must have capital equal to at least 8% of their assets ( weighted according to their riskiness ) by , in Japan 's case , March 1993 . |
12 | In this game , investors borrowed dollars and other currencies according to their share in the krona basket , converted them into krona , and re-invested in Swedish securities with bigger returns than the cost of the borrowed funds . |
13 | The property-based tax will sort all 22.2m homes into seven bands according to their market values . |
14 | When all the possible beneficiaries are of full age and under no disability ( such as that of an infant or lunatic ) , they may put an end to the trust by requiring the trustee to transfer the property to them or to dispose of it according to their directions ; and this is so in spite of any direction to the contrary in the settlement , such as a direction that payment is not to be made to a beneficiary till he reaches the age of 25 . |
15 | Once again , it is left to the courts to draw the line according to their overall judgment of the facts . |
16 | Only by this means can the rumours be judged according to their worth . |
17 | A medicine trolley squeaked rodently in the hall outside , where other out-patients sat in clumps of tubular steel chairs neatly arranged according to their various diseases . |
18 | For example , the branches of a tree diminish in section according to their loading . |
19 | Lines should vary in thickness according to their loading . |
20 | They do not illustrate or copy familiar images , but live their own independent lives according to their own programmes . |
21 | When gastrulation is completed , the cells can be divided into a small number of classes according to their future fate : they may be ‘ ectodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the outer layers of the skin , hair , the lens of the eye , and so on ) , ‘ endodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the lining of the gut ) , ‘ mesodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to muscle , bone , blood-vessels , and many other structures ) , or , finally , they may be destined to give rise to the brain and nervous system . |
22 | 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 … |
23 | As election results were announced on large TV screens , partygoers whooped or groaned , according to their political preference . |
24 | Each party gets a block of seats which are doled out to individuals according to their personal following . |
25 | The three remaining elders — Chen Yun , Wang Zhen and Song Renqiong , each of whom is believed to be in poor health — have conspicuously failed to put their name to a cause that , according to their past views , could lead to a ‘ capitalist restoration ’ . |
26 | Today it means in terms of a hierarchy of pedagogical responsibilities that the individual and the individual family have a primary role , which they carry out through contracting and engaging for specific purposes the services of ‘ free ’ organizations according to their private ideological orientation , and only as a last resort does the state intervene directly . |
27 | The Red Rose and the Rosa Mundi commonly grow from three to four feet high , but seldom exceed that ; but the Damask , Provence and Frankfurt Roses grow to the height of seven or eight feet , so that in planting them , great care should be taken to place their several kinds , according to their various growth , amongst other shrubs , that they may appear beautiful to the eye . |
28 | classifying microorganisms according to their pathogenicity ( biological activity ) . |
29 | All are noted for their ability , in some degree , to change colour according to their background . |
30 | Fresh water gastropods are different from marine ones , and within the marine habitat itself the gastropods are strongly zoned ecologically , so that even on the same shore different species will be found in different areas according to their relation to the tide marks , degree of exposure , their diet , and so on . |