Example sentences of "according to [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economic world in which the family has its being is not just the market , for it is also affected by state allocation of the benefits and burdens of citizenship according to its own criteria . |
| 2 | In September last year , President Ershad set up a national committee which , according to its own press release , intends to ‘ restore honour and dignity to the tribal peoples ’ by withdrawing the army , banning further immigration and returning the land which had been ‘ illegally and fraudulently ’ seized . |
| 3 | There lies the genuine stake today , in this underhand , inescapable confrontation between the silent majority and the social imposed on them , in this hypersimulation reduplicating simulation and exterminating it according to its own logic — not in any class struggle nor in the molecular hodge-podge of desire-breaching minorities . |
| 4 | Every culture will organise the world according to its own perceptions of reality ; thus one language may have words which have no equivalent concept in another . |
| 5 | The visionary at Much Wenlock was a member of a community founded , according to its own tradition , by Mildburh , daughter of Merewalh and a princess of the Magonsaete . |
| 6 | but , each star contains the sun the moon and the stars according to its own coloration of them . |
| 7 | Scotland , meantime , had her own monarchs and her own parliament which , notwithstanding accession to the English throne by a king of Scotland in 1603 , continued to regulate the affairs of the Scottish kingdom according to its own laws and customs . |
| 8 | The second is the position apparently preferred by the police itself : where it is not subject to the whims of party politics and can develop what it considers to be the best safeguard for the community — the professionalization of the police force , in other words , it wants to be regarded as a profession and , like the medical and legal professions , to be left to do its job according to its own discretion . |
| 9 | The national assessment is not competitive ; each school is assessed according to its own circumstances and locality . |
| 10 | According to its own market forecast charts , Data General Corp 's next-generation Motorola Inc 88110-based AViiONs will deliver from 200 MIPS to 800 MIPS , retail from between $200,000 and $350,000 and are due to arrive by next spring . |
| 11 | Seen from the inside , however , the Addams area is intricately organized according to its own standards and the residents are fairly insistent on their demands . |
| 12 | Statistical analysis was performed using the χ 2 test with or without Yates ' correction , the Fisher 's exact test and the Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test , each applied according to its own indications . |
| 13 | The avowed programme of Montjoie was to find the link between various arts and to investigate their common tendencies , and Canudo invented the term ‘ cérébrisme ’ to describe this attitude : ‘ Montjoie is the mouthpiece of Cerebrist art , for Cerebrism , according to its own definition , embraces and explains the entire artistic evolution of our age during the past forty years , and in the widest sense , being an aesthetic that is indissolubly cerebral and sensual — against all sentimentality in art and life . ’ |
| 14 | Does it count for nothing that Romania , according to her own claims , has repaid her entire hard currency debt and made future borrowing from the West illegal ? |
| 15 | According to her own account , which we have n't yet had time to check but there 's no particular reason to doubt , she 's twenty-five years old , single , and works in the millinery trade in Mannheim . |
| 16 | Ethel Walker 's women are also muses , especially chosen according to her own ideal of beauty — long and lean . |
| 17 | Performance indicators ( increasingly referred to in the current climate as ‘ success criteria ’ ) were to be decided at school level , according to what each school felt to be useful areas to monitor . |
| 18 | According to their former captain and hooker , Douglas Livingstone , McPherson 's influence both on and off the field has been a major factor in what has been a very successful season . |
| 19 | Freer use of money for recruitment made it easier for kings to recruit armies when and how they wished ; and for knights and nobles to lead their lives according to their own inclinations . |
| 20 | Mr Taylor added : ‘ Each age necessarily reinterprets the figures of the past according to their own preoccupations or neuroses — hence Glendinning 's interesting speculations about Trollope 's sex life — and superannuation is inevitable . |
| 21 | Although psychics describe the aura differently ( according to their own level of psychic perception ) , it is generally agreed that the aura is composed of at least three layers or levels . |
| 22 | Rather , what they wanted was to go on living and building their properties according to their own circumstances and preferences within their own neighbourhoods . |
| 23 | The retrieval emphasis is on keywords ( see Figure 5.2 ) and author with in-depth indexing to allow for specific and flexible searching The aim is to help pupils develop information retrieval skills b allowing them scope to experiment and develop search strategic according to their own interests and purposes within the project . |
| 24 | How can the Government conceivably justify the untruth of claiming that they are maintaining an aid programme when , according to their own figures , they have halved that provided by Labour ? |
| 25 | If the Masai had an educational system of their own which was functioning well according to their own criteria , there was no reason for them to view with favour the introduction into it , by people whose hegemony they accepted but did not welcome , of alien elements . |
| 26 | Such funds would not , therefore , form part of the school 's delegated budget and governors would not be free to deploy them according to their own priorities . |
| 27 | Such a situation is one which allows other countries to put aside international law and act according to their own judgments . |
| 28 | The interviewer is concerned not with taking over and controlling the clients ' lives , but with helping them handle problems in order that they may fashion their own lives according to their own values . |
| 29 | They reaffirm the right of all peoples and states to shape their destiny freely and without external interference and shape their political , economic , social and cultural development according to their own wishes . |
| 30 | Magyars , Roumanians , Serbs , Bulgars , Arnauts ( Albanians ) , Greeks and Turks will then finally be in a position to settle their own mutual disputes without the intervention of foreign powers , to settle among themselves the bounds of their individual national territories , to manage their internal affairs according to their own judgement . |