Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to account for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case one might hope to account for the working of the system without enquiring into the internal organization of the units . |
| 2 | If this is how the young child construes what is happening , it could begin to account for the response that four-year-olds typically give . |
| 3 | And it is to the trade union that they would have to account for the exercise of that authority . |
| 4 | To revert to our example , we shall have to account for the fact that the predicate human , or rather the predicable " — is human " , unlike the predicable " — is a dragon " , has the capacity of being turned into a true proposition , and in order to do this , we shall have to make use of our original proposition , viz. that men do actually exist ( in the full-blooded sense of " exist " ) , and if so , nothing of any substance will have been accomplished by the attempted " reduction " . |
| 5 | If a coherent theory of literacy is to be developed , it will have to account for the place of written language , both in relation to the forms of spoken language and also in relation to the communicative functions served by different types of language in different social settings . |
| 6 | Wordsworth tells us that he wrote The Prelude in order to give an account of the growth of his mind , which may help to account for the inclusion of some of the stranger incidents . |
| 7 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |