Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to account for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when we come to the interpersonal function , we not only have to account for the literary work itself as a discourse between author and reader , but we have to reckon with the phenomenon of " embedded discourse " : the occurrence of discourse within discourse , as when the author reports dialogue between fictional characters . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whatever the vertical and lateral changes in the Coal Measures , we still have to account for a general facies development in late Carboniferous times that extends in essentially the same form all the way from Texas to the Donetz coal basin , north of the Caspian Sea in the U.S.S.R. This amounts to some 170 of longitude , and closing up the Atlantic by a mere 40 does not really help all that much in explaining this remarkable phenomenon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |