Example sentences of "being [vb pp] accord [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rugby Union is experimenting with changes in the points-scoring system ; Formula One is questioning the capabilities of its cars ; and cricket in this country is being revised according to the recommendations of the Murray Commission . |
| 2 | The due processes having been gone through , there was nothing to prevent Hilda Machin being buried according to the rites of the Christian church whose doings she had cared remarkably little about during her lifetime . |
| 3 | There may be an inspection during the course of the work by local authority officials to check that the work is being executed according to the plans submitted . |
| 4 | If we move away from the national level to consider the smaller local communities , or particular institutions such as factories and offices , colleges and schools , it is quite clear that there are no problems of either size or communications which stand in the way of their being governed according to the principle of direct participatory democracy . |
| 5 | After standard orthograde bowel preparation , each patient received intravenous diazepam and pethidine , the doses being titrated according to the response . |
| 6 | Prior to land reform most agricultural taxes were levied to the land itself , assessment per unit of land being graduated according to the quality of land proportional to output . |
| 7 | Hayward 's fortune was dispersed at his death , his personal estate being divided according to the custom of London between his widow , his children , and various legacies . |
| 8 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |