Example sentences of "and according [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general data presented by Cox are undeniable , but interpretation of the data rests on certain assumptions , principally that people act on an individualistic basis rather than as groups , and according to attitudes expressed in the quiet of their homes rather than in response to major events . |
| 2 | Again , according to Bernstein ( 1975 ) , Ball ( 1981 ) , and many more , schooling can have opposite effects on children according to whether children have been socialized into working-class or middle-class aspirations , and according to the actual way the schooling process is structured by the state , the teachers , and the subject-disciplines . |
| 3 | And according to next week 's edition of International Financing Review , a high powered scouting party was dispatched under the command of Willard Butcher , the chairman . |
| 4 | Yet even the British acknowledge that there are individuals and countries ‘ wedded to sanctions ’ , and according to Commonwealth officials , Britain may well again find itself in a minority of one when the subject is debated . |
| 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 | The homosexual is implicated all ways round , and according to some fairly crude psychoanalytic binaries . |
| 7 | This point is of course another criticism of the individualist philosophies of utilitarians and of economists who saw early man as a kind of Robinson Crusoe trying to interact with nature in isolation and according to ideas and institutions which he had created on the spot . |
| 8 | The distribution of the boto and tucuxi show considerable overlap , and according to da Silva and Best , both are the victims of accidental death from entanglement in fixed nylon gill-nets . |
| 9 | In 1988 , 30–40 Spanish vessels were operating out of Algeciras and Almeria , and according to some estimates , as many as 800 Italian and French drift-net vessels , with a total net length exceeding 15,000 km ( about 10,000 miles ) , were fishing in the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Let my lord pass on before his servant , and I will lead on slowly , according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children , until I come to my lord in Seir . ’ |
| 12 | But who should do the interpreting , and according to what principles ? |
| 13 | But most people do not have a dish , and according to the projections of Continental Research , will not have one by the end of the century . |
| 14 | Short did not appear to obtain much advantage out of the opening and according to Karpov 's friend , Dmitri Bjelica , Karpov could have secured a draw by exchanging queens as the players approached the time control at move 40 . |
| 15 | In a tribal village , in Africa say , a boy is born to a particular woman who , obeying the customs of her people , proceeds to rear him either under conditions of high sociability or relative isolation and according to a particular regime of toilet training and weaning . |
| 16 | Besides , there is a back-log of acidity already in the soil ; and according to one estimate , Scottish lochs would remain at their disastrously acid level even if present acid fallout was halved by AD 2000 . |
| 17 | He went on to explain that the construction of the links would cost £2,000 plus , and the purchase price of the land — about 100 acres — another £4,000 , and according to the Standard , he thought ‘ Some of the tradesmen of Henley would probably be induced to invest £100 in it , because it was not like asking people to make a donation of £100 . |
| 18 | In the early eighteenth century about twenty families lived there , and according to the census of 1801 it had a population of 137 [ Baker , 2 , 720 ] . |
| 19 | In addition , what is difficult will vary for different individuals and according to circumstances : some topics will themselves vary in difficulty ; some people will perceive the difficulty of the same task very differently ; and circumstances may make an otherwise easy task seem very hard . |
| 20 | Talk about variations in vocabulary according to purpose , topic and audience and according to whether language is spoken or written , eg slang , formal vocabulary , technical vocabulary . |
| 21 | And according to legend , a few minutes later , the employer and his guests heard three gun shots . |
| 22 | Concealment of an eye operation is one of the worst deceptions and according to the show rules is to be prosecuted as a breeding violation. 5 . |
| 23 | Both are out of print and according to his publisher ( the wacky John Muir of Todmorden ) are unlikely ever to see the light of day again . |
| 24 | Everyone knows that both sexes work with horses , and according to the Oxford English Dictionary the word ‘ He ’ is generic , is she saying that the Oxford English Dictionary is wrong ? |
| 25 | They will be known as City Technology Colleges , and they will be selective , though how and according to what criteria the pupils are to be chosen is not yet clear . |
| 26 | This is an arid , fragile environment that is easily damaged by the mechanical impact of motorcycle tyres and according to Luckenbach ( 1975 , quoted in Edington and Edington 1986 ) the ‘ Hare and Hounds ’ race has resulted in the destruction of some 140 000 creosote bushes ( Larrea divaricata ) , 64 000 burro-bushes ( Franseria dumosa ) and 15 000 Mojave yuccas ( Yucca schidigera ) due to mechanical impact and the exposure of plant roots by subsequent soil erosion . |
| 27 | Looking across the denominational spectrum we can see that this central act , which is shared by all the major denominations , is celebrated in dozens of different ways and according to dozens of different theological principles . |
| 28 | The clothes were a prop and according to his club mates the money was made of carefully clipped strips of newspaper . |
| 29 | Crerand bitterly resents Docherty who dismissed him as Manchester United 's assistant manager and according to the ex-Celtic halfback , the late Jock Stein once described Docherty as ‘ nothing but a Glasgow corner boy . ’ |
| 30 | One of Scotland 's richest footballers and one of Britain 's most marketable models were an item and according to a highly quotable ‘ close friend ’ , who in true tabloid style was never named , Frank was supposedly ‘ Besotted ’ by the blonde lovely . |