Example sentences of "[vb past] to account for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After 1760 , with the acceleration in turnpike trust formation and the advent of the canal age , investment in transport came to account for a substantial fraction of total capital investment in Britain . |
| 3 | After two decades cotton came to account for a third of the increase in manufactured exports from 1784 – 6 to 1794 – 6 . |
| 4 | Quite simply , there is too little equipment installed to account for the levels of unemployment . |
| 5 | The profession , principally via its house journal , sought to account for the attacks in terms of a conspiracy theory . |
| 6 | Given the basic similarity of human sexuality at birth , and the bisexual nature of human beings , Freud sought to account for the way in which men and women are produced in a particular society — namely , middle-class Europe and America in the early twentieth century . |
| 7 | By making this distinction , Miliband sought to account for the fact that the state is not always an instrument of the ruling class , even though , in terms of ownership and control of the economy , a ruling class clearly existed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A tradition of language study which neglected this , as nineteenth-century philology did , failed to account for the real nature of its object . |
| 10 | This followed a complaint alleging that he had issued a buffet receipt to two young passengers in lieu of a travel ticket and failed to account for the £5 received . |
| 11 | Studies published in the National Geographic Society 's journal Research & Exploration show that the phenomenon thought to account for the warming at night — increased cloud cover — is probably caused by the warming itself and will thus continue to moderate the effect as long as the warming continues by keeping day temperatures lower . |
| 12 | Although the gas industry retained the larger market share for cooking overall , more than a quarter of consumers had electric cookers by 1958 and electricity for cooking continued to account for a fifth of domestic electricity sales . |
| 13 | I had to account for every penny I spent , but he never told me what he was spending . |
| 14 | A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) . |