Example sentences of "[conj] according to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If a small child is asked to group a set of objects he may gather together items according to their colour ( for example , all brown objects ) or according to their normal use ( for example , all cutlery ) .
2 For a party , a layer cake can be iced and decorated to fit the occasion , or according to your political persuasion .
3 None of them had been the kind of people who could have imagined devotion to a pet animal or according to it funerary rites .
4 Almost the only thing he could think of coherently as he peered at the Dutch tiles and crazy paving was that according to his last statement of account he had 67 12s. 9d. in the bank .
5 They 're normally char er classified according to their gating properties rather th initially , rather than according to their ionic specificity .
6 TRGs is a concept , first identified by Gambling ( 1987 ) in which patients are classified more according to the treatment they receive than according to their clinical classification .
7 The United States adopts a liberal approach and some foreign judges have actually been sworn in as commissioners by American courts , e.g. , German and Italian judges have been allowed to execute the Letters themselves in the United States by examining witnesses in their own language and according to their own procedures .
8 International Relations theorists too tend to treat states which seem not to be power-maximizers either as unimportant or as maximizing power in their own eyes and according to their own ideas .
9 He was thus a particular target for the Tories , and according to his own account lost his seat at the 1702 election after a specific campaign against him inspired by the Tory leaders .
10 After the Ascension of Christ , Luke , whom Paul had taken with him as an expert in the way ( teaching ) , wrote under his own name and according to his own understanding .
11 The Crowther Committee on Consumer Credit ( 1971 ) Cmnd 4596 , recommended that transactions should be dealt with not according to their legal form , but according to their economic substance .
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