Example sentences of "we account for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we to account for the behaviour of the state in terms of the behaviour of its constituent bureaucracies ( and other agencies ) , or vice versa ? |
| 2 | Are we to account for the behaviour of a bureaucracy in terms of the behaviour of the human individuals comprising it , or vice versa ? |
| 3 | If the bill is to be calculated on a daily rate and someone 's auntie comes to stay for a couple of months in the middle of the year , what about all the complications in adjusting for that and how do we account for the period for which someone has lost the discount ? |
| 4 | But if these consonants now form part of a syllable-final consonant cluster , how do we account for the fact that English speakers hear the consonants as extra syllables ? |
| 5 | The distinction just seen with noun objects is also applicable to examples with the infinitive and will allow us to account for the distribution of to with cause and make . |