Example sentences of "[noun] to account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a debate would give right hon. and hon. Members — particularly those whose constituents , like mine in the north-west , are suffering from the loss of their MGN pensions — an opportunity to ask the Opposition to account for the way in which some of their members who were trustees of the MGN fund behaved in a wholly negligent way . |
| 2 | The failure of Keynesianism to account for and provide solutions to the growing problem of stagflation . |
| 3 | To compensate for the absence of transitions Jelinek used backing off formulae to account for missing transitions . |
| 4 | The world 's airlines use a variety of methods to account for their fleets , depreciate aircraft and account for foreign exchange gains and losses , and differ widely on their levels of disclosure in income statements for depreciation and finance costs . |
| 5 | This very strong assumption precludes any role for unobserved variables to account for a substantial proportion of population heterogeneity . |
| 6 | These words of Monsignor Guardini , written nearly thirty years after my early musings , expressed a growing need in my thinking to account for the Buddha in the providence of God . |
| 7 | This article comes out of the familiar experience of being drawn to a particular image , or set of images , without at first knowing why , and the attempt to account for this feeling . |
| 8 | Situated within a tradition of sociological inquiry into working-class attitudes and behaviour , it is a theoretically sophisticated attempt to account for the dynamics of political change in a particular locality . |
| 9 | Even where there is some attempt to account for female/male differences in deviant behaviour , the explanation may simply resort to the simplistic notion that sex roles are generally differentiated . |
| 10 | In an attempt to account for some of the peculiarities of the sternopleural region , Ferris ( 1940 , etc. ) has argued that the greater part of the ventral side of the thorax of some insects is derived from pleural structures , but further critical study of his theory is necessary . |
| 11 | His anthropological attempt to account for spatial variations in the nature of politics is countered by others who associate the origins of political variations across the earth 's surface with variations within the sphere of production ( notably with the core-periphery structure of the capitalist world-economy : Johnston , 1984d , 1989d ; Taylor , 1989 ) . |
| 12 | Such development will involve supplementing the hard core with additional assumptions in an attempt to account for previously known phenomena and to predict novel phenomena . |
| 13 | Normal scientists will articulate and develop the paradigm in their attempt to account for and accommodate the behaviour of some relevant aspects of the real world as revealed through the results of experimentation . |
| 14 | The impossibility of maintaining a minute to minute control of larger staff will inevitably cause complications during any roll-call attempt to account for every person . |
| 15 | She was partly at a loss to account for her fear of the man , which was surely irrational . |
| 16 | Gas between the galaxies contains too few baryons to account for all the apparent mass but too many to be consistent with the simplest Big Bang models . |
| 17 | The flexible approach is therefore to allow organizations to account for their own economic reality . |
| 18 | New Historicism opens the possibility of a critical analysis of a text which attends to its cultural substance rather than relying on reductive formulas to account for text and context . |
| 19 | For an atom with many electrons , we can still use the one-electron atom wave-functions as approximate descriptions of the behavior of the electrons , though we should modify the functions to account for the mutual repulsion of the electrons . |
| 20 | The design intention in providing the Charge Code feature is to enable LIFESPAN sites to account for disk usage by individual groups of LIFESPAN users . |
| 21 | The obligation of directors to account for profits made as a result of abusing ( in the sense of taking advantage of ) their position as directors is often described as the principle that directors must not make a secret profit . |
| 22 | ‘ Tell me , ’ Athelstan spoke up , ‘ did anything happen in the household to account for these riddles ? |
| 23 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 24 | When there are few clear , constant priorities , it is difficult to hold management to account for its actions . |
| 25 | This is compounded , second , by cross-cutting political objectives that conflict with the achievement of clear financial targets and make it difficult to hold management to account for its actions . |
| 26 | Confirmation of either hypothesis would conceptually link the Galactic Centre with the centres of active galaxies , which release prodigious amounts of energy from their nuclear regions , and which seem to require either very massive black holes or huge bursts of star formation to account for what is observed . |
| 27 | Applied to the human race , sexual selection allowed Darwin to account for the loss of body hair by assuming that this character had become sexually desirable among our distant ancestors . |
| 28 | The ingenious minds that take their delight in inventing causal hypotheses to account for these present seeming relations , through reference to supposed conditions of the past , will work more easily , and perhaps with more truthful results , if supplied with properly arranged data truly illustrating the present . |
| 29 | A number of hypotheses to account for an excess mortality have been proposed , including an effect of socioeconomic statis . |
| 30 | Simmel effectively extends Marx 's concept of rupture to account for the inability of modern individuals to recognize themselves in the world of goods . |