Example sentences of "to account for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1988 ) argue that it is not necessary to propose a separate memory mechanism such as that proposed by Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) to account for flashbulb memories . |
| 2 | recognize Foucault 's political limits : failure to account for change , and the difficult relationship between discourse and realities ( 1984 : 108–9 ) . |
| 3 | If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded . |
| 4 | However , there is clearly a need for Tack to account for expenditure as an individual . |
| 5 | Darwin proposed his theory of sexual selection to account for sex differences of structure and behaviour , according to which , in most species , males compete for , and females select , mates . |
| 6 | It is fairly flexible , allowing minor alterations or additions to the program to account for problem re-definition . |
| 7 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 8 | Moreover , in the Opticks he identified seven colours in the spectrum and described a circle divided into seven segments that could be used to account for colour mixing . |
| 9 | Thus , if the company pays a dividend of £60,000 , it will be liable to account for ACT of £20,000 ( ie £60,000 * 25/75ths ) . |
| 10 | Subsidiary companies included in a valid group income election can pay dividends up to their holding company without having to account for ACT ( s 247(1) ( 2 ) ) . |
| 11 | It means the shareholder can utilise his annual exemption and indexation allowance for capital gains tax purposes , and the company will not have to account for ACT . |
| 12 | Provided certain conditions are met , the purchase can be treated as a capital transaction so that no part of the purchase price is treated as a distribution in the selling shareholder 's hands and the company does not have to account for ACT . |
| 13 | ( c ) the payment of preference dividends results in an obligation to account for ACT . |
| 14 | For example , you have to account for money spent on holidays , and it 's wise to set a certain amount aside for emergencies , like the boiler breaking down . |
| 15 | From the outset we can see that Freud 's theory , while being sociological in its understanding of individualism as social product , has the advantage over Durkheim 's sociologism in being able to account for creativity and for change in human societies . |
| 16 | I therefore pass to examine further — still in an entirely simplistic frame of mind — other theories which have been advanced to account for inflation . |
| 17 | These codes apply to conduct which may involve risk issues as well as other situations , and members may be held to account for behaviour which falls short of the required standard . |
| 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 overseas businesses registered in other EC member states which are making supplies in the UK , the simplification option allows them to avoid UK VAT registration , but requires the UK customer to account for VAT due on the supply . |
| 20 | The EC customers to whom VAT-free charges are made will have to account for VAT under the reverse charge mechanism in their member states . |
| 21 | Such small firms will be required to account for VAT once a year , and then only on bills actually paid . |
| 22 | Moonrakers Guest House Ltd disputed liability to account for VAT on deposits when received on the basis that the company treated such deposits as belonging to the customer until either cancellation or the time of letting . |
| 23 | There was no consensus as to the credibility of the commonly mentioned estimate of 100,000 Iraqi war dead , no official figures having been provided despite the obligation under the Geneva Convention for the military authorities to attempt to account for enemy dead . |
| 24 | In order to account for discourse , we need to look at features outside the language : at the situation , the people involved , what they know and what they are doing . |
| 25 | This is not a criticism of the theories in themselves , but if discourse analysis is to incorporate them , and to demonstrate their relevance to the language learner , it will need to test their value in interpreting language which has actually occurred ; to select what is relevant from context rather than invent a few elements of it ; to account for writing as well as speech , and to account for discourse where there is no constant feedback from the receiver who may not even be present . |
| 26 | Chomsky is therefore highly critical of the way in which Skinner uses operant terminology to account for language . |
| 27 | He is ungroundedly pessimistic over the prospect of developing a powerful enough learning theory to account for language acquisition . |
| 28 | companies as defined in companies legislation to account for finance costs which do not relate to revenue in the statement of total recognised gains and losses . |
| 29 | However , others have not found any evidence of co-operativity ( n H =1 ) suggesting that binding of a single molecule of InsP 3 is sufficient to account for channel opening . |
| 30 | Net profits were were $595m , which compares with net profit from operations of $556m in the 1991 first quarter , when the company of course reported a big loss because of the change in the method it used to account for employee benefits . |