Example sentences of "to account for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Istanbul 's covered bazaar : Mark Warner Travel has to account for clubs in Turkey and in other resorts throughout the Mediterranean |
| 2 | ( 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 . |
| 3 | By dealing only with idealised language instances — speech purged of irregularities such as hesitations or reformulations , of dialectal variation and of context-dependent features — they removed the necessity to account for differences between the two modes . |
| 4 | Schmidt 's study differs from those discussed so far in that it does not quantify network structure at all , but uses the concept to account for differences between speakers which emerge from a quantitative analysis of linguistic data . |
| 5 | Software and services revenues grew 18% , to account for 50% of ICL 's total turnover — an area in which further acquisitions are likely . |
| 6 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 7 | recognize Foucault 's political limits : failure to account for change , and the difficult relationship between discourse and realities ( 1984 : 108–9 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , there is clearly a need for Tack to account for expenditure as an individual . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is fairly flexible , allowing minor alterations or additions to the program to account for problem re-definition . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | It is , however , difficult to account for properties 1 and 2 without appealing to the anthropic principle . |
| 14 | And yet this high-tech portfolio looks strange beside pots and pans , which continue to account for 28% of its sales . |
| 15 | Hermione Lee is admirably judicious about all this , pointing out both that we have a perfect right to say things about a writer that we would not have said in their lifetime , and that ‘ to account for Cather 's fiction by reading it as an encoding of covert , even guilty sexuality is , I think , both patronising and narrow . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 ) ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ( c ) the payment of preference dividends results in an obligation to account for ACT . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | possible-world co-ordinate : this is to account for states of affairs which might be , or could be supposed to be or are |
| 24 | According to Personal Computers and the X Window System , the latest report from the X Business Group , it is the take-up of X by commercial customers that has caused the explosion , with database access expected to account for 32% of sales , mapping and GIS 16% and CASE 11% . |
| 25 | The cost method is generally used to account for interests of less than 20% . |
| 26 | Amid the raging debate around the asylum law , which the CDU has manipulated to account for Germany 's plight , voters also pinned the source of their frustrations and fears on the presence of ‘ too many ’ foreigners in Germany . |
| 27 | There should be a weighting system to account for variations in house prices in different parts of the country and within different districts of the same region . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I therefore pass to examine further — still in an entirely simplistic frame of mind — other theories which have been advanced to account for inflation . |
| 30 | In order to account for women 's lack of autonomy it is not sufficient to think merely in terms of removing a veil , or stripping away the outer layers . |