Example sentences of "according [prep] [adj] view " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this view the grammatical difference between nouns and adjectives marks no real difference between things and their properties : a material thing , a substance , is no more than ‘ a bundle ’ of properties . |
| 2 | According to this view , the woman who agrees to have sex with D only when he promises to marry her ( never intending to keep this promise ) — and because he has promised to marry her — is a victim not of rape but of the lesser offence of procuring sexual intercourse by false representations . |
| 3 | According to this view , organisms are simply survival machines , constructed by genes to ensure their own replication . |
| 4 | According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates . |
| 5 | Following Lea ( 1984 ) , they suggest that true conceptual categories involve equivalence classes of stimuli that are not tied together by perceptual similarity , Mediated generalization is clearly not to be regarded , according to this view , as making the stimuli perceptually more similar . |
| 6 | The true objective for which animal advocates should work , according to this view , is not to provide nonhuman animals with larger cages and stalls , but to empty them . |
| 7 | Delinquency , according to this view , is not an expression or contrivance of a particular kind of personality ; it may be imposed upon any kind of personality if circumstances favour intimate association with delinquent models . |
| 8 | According to this view of the school . |
| 9 | The opportunity for autonomous action and local diversity was limited , according to this view , because of two factors . |
| 10 | According to this view , these cases were dropped when tempers died down . |
| 11 | According to this view top corporate officials make their organizational inferiors ‘ offers they ca n't refuse ’ . |
| 12 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 50 ) mentions the theory that the temples ( though he treats them as palaces ) at Knossos and Phaistos were founded by foreign dynasts who invaded Crete at the beginning of the Middle Minoan period ; according to this view , urbanization occurred in Crete as a result of the arrival of already-urbanized conquerors . |
| 13 | According to this view , the state is a doubly important object of study , first because its institutions are a major and influential part of the political instance of capitalist society , and second because they are the key to the working of society as a whole . |
| 14 | Any use of force , according to this view , had to do more than hold the lines on the battlefield ; it had also to allow the Bosnian government the chance to fight and retake territory it had lost . |
| 15 | In reality , according to this view , only certain groups of children and parents are interfered with by state agencies , with the objectives of upholding dominant values about child rearing , maintaining particular sorts of socialisation , and , to some degree , redistributing deprived children to members of more powerful social groups who , for various reasons , desire to care for them . |
| 16 | According to this view , significant benefits would accrue to both fundholders and patients . |
| 17 | According to this view , Idealism had made the mistake of subordinating political considerations to moral considerations . |
| 18 | According to this view , the working classes had more to unite them than divide them , and the separateness of states was a piece of mystification which helped to perpetuate capitalism . |
| 19 | According to this view , the preponderance of large families among the poor and ill-educated only persists today because their demographic transition is not yet complete , their higher fertility being due to unwanted births from poor family planning . |
| 20 | In the early months of life , according to this view , he learns that she provides food and other bodily comforts , therefore comes to value her presence , and in due course will want her in her own right . |
| 21 | Women , according to this view , are too busy looking after children ( and their husbands and elderly parents ) to participate as fully as men in the labour market . |
| 22 | According to this view , which was first developed in the 1930s , economic progress is marked by the successive growth and decline of the three sectors of the economy . |
| 23 | According to this view in-group variation ( in social affairs generally ) is not only functional within communities , but also subtle and complicated , and difficult for outsiders to access . |
| 24 | According to this view , the occurrence of invention is not certain ; an act of insight is required . |
| 25 | According to this view , despite her political and economic backwardness , early-twentieth-century Russia had embarked on the path trodden by her western neighbours . |
| 26 | According to this view , instead of representing workers or peasants , they spoke for a new class spawned by advancing capitalism , the class from which they themselves sprang — the intelligentsia . |
| 27 | According to this view , power is dispersed and not concentrated in the hands of the upper classes ( see pp. 124–35 for details ) . |
| 28 | According to this view , short-termism is a feature of investments in firm-specific assets that have a low resale value outside the firm . |
| 29 | State interventions to protect the working class have been designed , according to this view , to stave off revolution and help the capitalist system to survive . |
| 30 | According to this view , conceptualization necessarily involves a dissimulation both of the differences between perceptual stimuli and of the metaphoric nature of knowledge itself . |