Example sentences of "[verb] according to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by comparing the bodies of two adult animals that are known to differ according to a single gene , they can see what effects that single gene has . |
| 2 | To this end , the material will be reorganised according to a single system and an index and guide will be created . |
| 3 | All the remaining 25 patients ( 54% of the original 46 and 81% of the survivors ) were interviewed according to a standard formula , using Visick grading of general clinical condition , recording heartburn , regurgitation and dysphagia with DeMeester-Johnson reflux scale . |
| 4 | DNA effectively ‘ makes ’ the proteins ; or at least , it provides the code which , after due translation , determines that each protein is formed according to a prescribed pattern . |
| 5 | The Yek who ruled this world lived according to a complex code of law at the very core of which was a presumption which affected every part of their existence — the belief that technological advancement was to a great extent incompatible with the maintenance of civilisation . |
| 6 | Central government subsidies are to be calculated according to a complicated formula that takes into account house prices in each area . |
| 7 | The capacity of a watercourse and the tolerable limits of polluting effluent are calculated according to a mathematical model , which ideally should be applied routinely and objectively to all dischargers regardless of their means , the costs of treatment , their prior efforts , or the demands made of their competitors . |
| 8 | Yet if Richard Armstrong was writing according to a tried formula , concrete detail and well-conceived plots and the firm line of his character drawing helped him to achieve a special , moderate , even low- keyed reality in his books . |
| 9 | ( e ) Students are required to submit tests for marking according to a pre-determined timetable ; each test shows the latest date by which it must be in the tutor 's hands . |
| 10 | The sociology of knowledge was not founded on an epistemology but this meant only that its empirical analyses could not be interpreted according to a pre-established system . |
| 11 | Anderson 's history must work according to a rational principle , the dialectic , and be moving towards an end which will reveal and enact its meaning . |
| 12 | The Bundesrat ( West German upper house of parliament ) was to be reconstituted according to a new allocation system , giving seats to each Land according to population from a minimum of three — as currently — to a maximum of eight ( instead of the present maximum of five ) . |
| 13 | * Explore how the text can be understood according to a classificatory system ( see pp. 54 – 5 ) . |
| 14 | ( 1978 ) point out , this leads to the denial of any specific effectivity on the part of the management of particular enterprises : each enterprise will function according to a uniform mode of calculation , as a mere ‘ aliquot part of the total capital ’ . |
| 15 | Too few libraries train according to a pre-arranged plan and many are not only unable to justify the methods used for the processes taught but may actually be unaware of what these methods and processes are . |
| 16 | The terms of the Soviet plan , now made public , were that ( i ) Iraq would make a full and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait ; ( ii ) the withdrawal would start on the second day after hostilities ceased ; ( iii ) Iraqi forces would depart according to a fixed timetable ; ( iv ) after two-thirds of Iraqi forces had withdrawn economic sanctions against Iraq would be lifted ; ( v ) after all Iraqi forces had left all UN Security Council resolutions against Iraq would lapse ; ( vi ) all prisoners of war would be released when the ceasefire became effective ; ( vii ) the troop withdrawal would be monitored by forces from countries not involved in the conflict , under direction of the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) work on details and specifics would continue and would be presented on Feb. 22 to Security Council members . |
| 17 | There are three standard sizes , numbered according to a quaint system followed by all major plane manufacturers . |
| 18 | Here Rousseau himself demonstrates in his oscillating interpretations a history that can not be linear , nor operate according to a single temporality , disturbing instead , the time of the line or the line of time ’ : |
| 19 | All original records on anal cancers coded according to a modified version of the seventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases ( ICD7 ) from 1943 to 1977 were examined manually to avoid inclusion of adenocarcinomas ( n=47 ) and melanomas ( n=19 ) . |
| 20 | To aid this process we might introduce structured directories in which documents could be stored according to a common logic for later retrieval or archiving . |
| 21 | In referral meetings attended by all the staff , an educational psychologist , and an education social worker , decisions on particular cases are taken according to a broad consensus which operated around two major and related considerations . |
| 22 | The idea that living organisms had been structured according to a divine plan , transparent to the human mind , still featured in the work of eminent naturalists . |
| 23 | He argued that the economic , political , ethical , legal , aesthetic , and erotic value spheres , which previously had been structured according to a unifying principle of the world religions and later of Enlightenment rationalism , now began to march to the beat of different drums ( Whimster and Lash 1987 ) . |
| 24 | Undomesticated dogs , like many other wild animals , do not expect to eat according to a rigid schedule . |
| 25 | MacLeay 's view of natural relationships presupposed that the living world is constructed according to a rational plan . |
| 26 | Hur applies dried leaves to square canvas stretcher bars , constructed according to a preliminary drawing . |
| 27 | Like the discourse of the realist novel , the discourse of the news media operates according to a specific set of technical conventions ( reliance on the word of ‘ experts ’ , abundant statistical and other quantitative information , scrupulous use of qualification , etc. ) which guarantee that it appears truthful . |
| 28 | At colonoscopy the macroscopic appearance of the mucosa in the splenic flexure , the sigmoid colon , and the rectum was graded according to a modified Baron scale : grade 0=normal vascular pattern ; grade 1=loss of vascular pattern , mucosal oedema but no bleeding ; grade 2=granularity , friability , mucosal bleeding on instrument contact ; and grade 3=discrete ulcerations and spontaneous bleeding — that is free blood in lumen when introducing the endoscope . |
| 29 | As soon as there are more than two things to be compared , they will be ordered according to a particular relationship . |
| 30 | And how we must wonder : how could such an intricate tapestry have evolved according to a linear process , involving only ‘ chance ’ as the driving factor ? |