Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] to their " 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 | Hence we do not need to argue that the judiciary are in any sense part of a gigantic conspiracy ; they merely act according to their beliefs which inevitably reflect their class interests . |
| 3 | The children pay little or nothing for attendance fees , and only pay according to their parent 's means . |
| 4 | Children are generally classified according to their fathers ' occupations . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | More specifically , his experiments showed , he claimed , that the cells always developed according to their relative position within the embryo , and this sense of position required that there be a self-organizing coordinate system which told the cells their position and that they then knew what to do . |
| 8 | It is a point made so many times by so many people that it has almost lost its meaning : even if all children went to the same nursery , primary and secondary schools , their examination performance and hence their entry to higher education establishments and eventually to well-paid jobs will still vary according to their family background . |
| 9 | VARS have been further re-classified according to their value-added strengths as resellers and high-end network integrators . |
| 10 | He left them there for a few days , checking that the wasps still kept returning to their burrows . |
| 11 | I envy people who do n't bother to wash up at night and leave stuff all over the place — I really enjoy going to their houses . |
| 12 | The scientific achievements of the past were crudely evaluated according to their contribution to later knowledge . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So even unanimous decisions , taken by individuals freely acting according to their perception of their own interests , will not necessarily produce the result they want . |
| 15 | 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 . |