Example sentences of "[noun] to account for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The design intention in providing the Charge Code feature is to enable LIFESPAN sites to account for disk usage by individual groups of LIFESPAN users . |
| 3 | recognize Foucault 's political limits : failure to account for change , and the difficult relationship between discourse and realities ( 1984 : 108–9 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Inventing the past to suit our needs , telling stories to account for paradox , and acting out roles are the forms of narrative which make possible all our cognitive endeavours and all communication . |
| 6 | He is ungroundedly pessimistic over the prospect of developing a powerful enough learning theory to account for language acquisition . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Chomsky is therefore highly critical of the way in which Skinner uses operant terminology to account for language . |
| 9 | In this context , we may note , attempts to account for poststructuralism in terms of the aftermath of the events of May 68 seem positively myopic , lacking the very historical perspective to which they lay claim . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( c ) the payment of preference dividends results in an obligation to account for ACT . |
| 12 | It is fairly flexible , allowing minor alterations or additions to the program to account for problem re-definition . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |