Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The user is intended to behave exactly according to their instruction . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Risks are perceived differently according to their scale and nature , and not by simply multiplying the frequency and consequences . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | One way of summarizing the results of European economic progress before 1914 is to group nations roughly according to their increase in wealth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And there 's a fascinating article in this , the current edition , the January edition it is now , because they go so far in advance , of She magazine , which says that er , it 's a desperate plight sometimes , when you have people coming for Christmas who fall into several categories like lazy slobs , who do absolutely nothing , and misers , who turn up with a stale box of chocolates , and never take you out for a meal in return for your hospitality , and the amorous couples who er , embarrass you by er , er , noisily retiring to their bedroom , if I may put it that way , and then the guests who turn up in mid-row , and bicker systematically over the whole of the festive period . |
| 12 | Jennie preferred to stay and supervise ; she was always backstage seeing to their make-up : |
| 13 | The Begum family had rung a pizza delivery service three times on Saturday night when it was late delivering to their home in Heelands in Milton Keynes . |
| 14 | However , when Bob was nine-years-old , the Fitzsimmons family cut their ties with Britain and moved to Lyttelton , New Zealand — never returning to their homeland . |
| 15 | There are relatively few issues to do with school self-evaluation in respect of which teachers differ significantly according to their gender . |
| 16 | The first views a wealth tax as in paragraphs 1 or 2 , as a way of capturing income , with the object under this heading being to reduce the feedback effect of large wealth holders enjoying higher incomes and therefore adding to their wealth by saving . |
| 17 | Would have difficulty pro possibly in actually getting to their flat . |