Example sentences of "according [prep] the [adj] theory of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoyle writes : ‘ My own recent work has caused me to doubt , not that evolution takes place , but that it takes place according to the usual theory of natural selection operating on randomly generated mutations . |
| 2 | According to the general theory of relativity , space-time is represented by a connected C ∞ Hausdorff manifold M together with a locally Lorentz metric g . |
| 3 | According to the neutral theory of molecular evolution , most ‘ substitutions ’ of amino acids — that is , the replacement of one amino acid by another at some site as the standard type in the population — are neutral . |
| 4 | It seems that those who try to live according to the official theory of schooling are subject to the same range of ritual abuse as the fans of another club . |
| 5 | According to the special theory of relativity , nothing can travel faster than light , so that if light can not escape , nothing else can either . |
| 6 | According to the well-established theory of Huxley and Hanson , contraction of the fibril is due to the sliding of the actin and myosin filaments relative to each other *Hanson , 1956 ; Pringle , 1966 ; Osborne , 1967 ) ; the actin filaments move further into the A-disk while the myosin filaments thus approach the Z-disks . |
| 7 | According to the hylemorphic theory of the scholastics , each individual thing or substance is a combination of ‘ matter ’ ( hyle ) and ‘ form ’ ( morphe ) , and it is because something has the form it has , that it is the kind of thing it is . |