Example sentences of "account for [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Thereby accounting for the jealousies of Lady Lavinia and Araminta both . ’
2 Platonists and Stoics in different ways expended much effort , therefore , in accounting for the evils of experience .
3 What accounts for the differences from town to town , or the similarities between them ?
4 His paradoxical logic is in many respects similar to the non-binary logical structures developed in France in the late 1960s to account for the peculiarities of literature and of narrative in particular ( see section 3.2 above ) .
5 Furthermore , an analysis which attempts to account for the interrelationships between syntax , semantics and discourse involves quite a different relationship between sociolinguistic and syntactic theory than is implied by one which attempts to demonstrate that alternation takes place between semantically equivalent surface forms .
6 By hook or by crook , football is being called to account for the years of profligacy .
7 While this held true for three of the four firms , it was possible to account for the exceptions in firm C because of the business getting practices of that firm , and in particular its brokerage relationship with the land agent .
8 Quite simply , there is too little equipment installed to account for the levels of unemployment .
9 The profession , principally via its house journal , sought to account for the attacks in terms of a conspiracy theory .
10 A Grammar of Metaphor does not , by itself , constitute a theory of metaphor , and I have therefore had to rely on theories developed by philosophers and literary critics , while indicating where these fail to account for the aspects of Brooke-Rose 's writing that seem most interesting .
11 But of course grammatical modification can not account for the particulars of meaning which are signalled on particular occasions , Grammar can only denote degrees of generality .
12 Two such delamination ‘ events ’ may account for the episodes of uplift of the Colorado Plateau in the south-west U S A. around 30 Ma and 5 Ma BP .
13 Whatever understanding of societies we gain in future , we do not now have a theory of ideology capable of explaining the myriad ways in which individuals perceive their situations , nor a theory of the social determination of character that will account for the vicissitudes of history .
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