Example sentences of "to account [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | These major transformations can not be mapped onto the model of a continuous history , for its stress on putative anticipations fails to account for the way in which the whole form of knowledge can be transformed and a new understanding created . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The difficulty has been to account for the way in which such features develop , as the sea in most regions is saturated with calcium carbonate , and in some places supersaturated . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | How word meanings combine is a key question when attempting to account for the way discourse is understood . |