Example sentences of "[pron] account for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then how do you account for a statement by a witness who claims that you passed him in your van , driving in the direction of Penzance , at about 11.45 that night ? ’ |
| 2 | But if so , how do you account for the fact that the forwards were yet again beaten in the battle for primary possession . |
| 3 | Then why had her hands become inexplicably clammy — and how could she account for the unsteadiness of her breathing ? |
| 4 | So how do we account for the dramatic increase in the average size of the remand population over the same period ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | How do we account for the minimal pairs given in Chapter 9 ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Marx , however , realized that the need to make a living could never directly explain what human beings do , nor could it account for the complexity of human history itself . |
| 9 | Nor can it account for the way that unskilled workers in a northern seaside town could imagine , think and plan how to move into the boarding house business . |
| 10 | How adequately does it account for the development of economic policy and the poor performance of the British economy ? |
| 11 | The Pumas path to the final saw them account for the second Hallamshire squad represented at the weekend , thus ending any aspirations of Yorkshire success . |