Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to account for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Simmel effectively extends Marx 's concept of rupture to account for the inability of modern individuals to recognize themselves in the world of goods .
2 These may be for short periods of time to account for the non-matching of the firm 's payments and receipts from its business .
3 Such changes are made in English to account for the notion more than one and for the notion meaning approximately in the past in verbs .
4 There is no need , it is argued , to postulate any such substrata in order to account for the idea of particular identity .
5 The attack on Quine therefore has two prongs , the rejection of MP and an attempt to show that we do not need to be atomists in order to account for the possibility of language learning .
6 This means that the initial state of the universe would have to have had exactly the same temperature everywhere in order to account for the fact that the microwave background has the same temperature in every direction we look .
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