Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] account for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the only way that we can account for the career of King Vidor . |
| 2 | What the cracks were like and how they got there he did not say , but he did show that , if they existed , which was not unreasonable , they would account for the weakness of ordinary glass . |
| 3 | Indeed , they can account for the variety and juxtaposition of rocks in a rather more detailed way than the above outline suggests . |
| 4 | It might account for the recapture of Aberdeen South and Kincardine and Deeside , for Michael Forsyth 's survival in Stirling , and for the remarkable defence by Phil Gallie , a new candidate , of George Younger 's 182 majority in Ayr . |
| 5 | Donald Goodenough , in his scholarly review of the very technical evidence on this issue comparing the recall of dreams by different personality types , comes to the conclusion that while repression may be responsible for the forgetting of some dreams , it is not feasible that it could account for the majority . |
| 6 | Harry was convinced that he could account for every train he had accepted . |