Example sentences of "[verb] account for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will not normally seek to account for the mental processes involved in any language-user 's production of those sentences , nor to describe the physical or social contexts in which those sentences occur . |
| 2 | It is not for me here to try to account for the common features of movements so different in nature as those we have mentioned . |
| 3 | ( Age and sex were included to account for the changing age and sex structures of the populations between the censuses . ) |
| 4 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 5 | The idea is that every person has another person ( or sometimes a group or committee ) to whom he or she has to account for the proper discharge of responsibilities . |
| 6 | Procedures can only be used effectively and efficiently in the context of a team structure which has accounted for the systematic management of top priorities and emergencies . |
| 7 | The nature-versus-culture model of analysis was first developed within anthropology to help account for the universal subordination or secondary status of women in all societies at all times . |
| 8 | The fundamental equation ( 12 ) of the kinetic theory can be used to account for the ideal gas equation |
| 9 | Various explanations have been advanced to account for the occupational rewards of professionals . |
| 10 | The latter require injection or deposition at altitudes 50km to take advantage of the strong easterly winds needed to account for the observed geographical range of the phenomenon . |
| 11 | In short , the government is being called to account for the economic disaster that is present-day Nicaragua . |
| 12 | In short , the government is being called to account for the economic disaster that is present-day Nicaragua . |
| 13 | He describes the toy drawer exactly , from the rubber sealing rings out of old tobacco tins , kept to make catapults ( which , with the string and the electric flex , were the principal binding agents in the mass ) , to the leaking paper bag of saltpetre ( which may have accounted for the choking smell ) . |
| 14 | However , the numbers were small and examination of the data showed that several of the Blacks were arrested on one day ( during riots ) and at least one was charged with robbery , probably with adults ; this one incident could have accounted for the larger percentage of Blacks going to the Crown Court . |
| 15 | The notion of overinclusive thinking actually arose originally from studies of schizophrenia ; yet , as already mentioned , it is found as , if not more , commonly in people diagnosed as suffering from mania , helping to account for the wild ‘ flight of ideas ’ typically observed in that condition . |
| 16 | The company information provided was aggregated and a ‘ correction factor ’ applied to account for the missing output , relative to the total output of the Scotch Whisky industry . |
| 17 | A tradition of language study which neglected this , as nineteenth-century philology did , failed to account for the real nature of its object . |
| 18 | A number of mechanisms have been implicated to account for the adverse effect of thiazide diuretics on lipid metabolism , which include reduced lipoprotein lipase activity secondary to the decrease in insulin action ( Grimm et al , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Numerous purges in the regions were designed to root out less than committed fascists , which helps to account for the high turnover of membership in the 1930s ; A.K. Chesterton in particular was notorious for the war he waged against literal social fascists , being responsible for expelling over 300 members in Stoke in 1935 who used the local headquarters as a drinking club . |
| 20 | The close integration of Herbarium , Garden and Library is one of the great strengths of the Royal Botanic Garden and helps to account for the high quality of its scientific , educational , and horticultural activities . |
| 21 | The Audit Commission review which was published in 1986 identified five main obstacles which they thought accounted for the slow and fragmented way that community care had developed in England and Wales . |
| 22 | BCCI was associated with drug money laundering in the United States , and allegedly handled accounts for the Palestinian terrorist organization , Abu Nidal . |
| 23 | These protect the timber from insects and rots but they also help to account for the high cost of working the best tropical woods because the silica blunts tools very quickly and the splinters of greenheart are poisonous . |
| 24 | It postulates that agents will have an incentive to seek out information on the underlying ‘ correct ’ model of the economy which , in combination with adaptive expectations , had accounted for the systematic errors of the past . |
| 25 | No doubt a lack of soap and water had accounted for the black faces , and not the pigment of their skin . |
| 26 | What had accounted for the nine-day gap between this date and the night of his eventual departure for France ? |
| 27 | This process was suggested to account for the unbalanced numbers of group I versus group II introns in mitochondria from various species ( 46 ) . |
| 28 | By the time of Copernicus , in the fifteenth century , the interaction of 77 mathematical circles , forming cycloids and ellipses as necessary , was required to account for the apparent motion of the Sun , Moon and five planets about the Earth . |
| 29 | Unwin 's study with its Romantic emphases on the imagination and the individual response to nature often fails to account for the social and literary conflicts underlying the poetry written by labouring people . |
| 30 | Even taking an ethologist 's view that young men are fighting animals who need to work off aggression harmlessly in play — a sweeping and contentious assumption — we st ill have to account for the specific form of football hooliganism since the 1960s . |