Example sentences of "[verb] to account for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present study no attempt has been made to account for senescence , because the amount of dead material is small . |
| 2 | Moreover , in the Opticks he identified seven colours in the spectrum and described a circle divided into seven segments that could be used to account for colour mixing . |
| 3 | I therefore pass to examine further — still in an entirely simplistic frame of mind — other theories which have been advanced to account for inflation . |
| 4 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |
| 5 | Subsidiary companies included in a valid group income election can pay dividends up to their holding company without having to account for ACT ( s 247(1) ( 2 ) ) . |
| 6 | In that case the exercise of a statutory power to make rules concerning indemnity for losses arising from liability for professional negligence was held to empower the Law Society to take out a master insurance policy and to require solicitors to pay the premiums without having to account for commission received from the brokers . |
| 7 | Veevers ( 1984 ) provides a comprehensive background to the history of the eastern Australian margin while Bishop ( 1988 ) reviews the various models that have been proposed to account for uplift . |
| 8 | On 18 February 1992 at the Crown Court at Snaresbrook , before Judge Rucker and a jury , the appellant , Yash Pal Kansal , was convicted of obtaining property by deception , contrary to section 15(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , of being a bankrupt and removing property , contrary to section 354(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , and of being a bankrupt and failing to account for property , contrary to section 354(3) of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 9 | It means the shareholder can utilise his annual exemption and indexation allowance for capital gains tax purposes , and the company will not have to account for ACT . |
| 10 | Provided certain conditions are met , the purchase can be treated as a capital transaction so that no part of the purchase price is treated as a distribution in the selling shareholder 's hands and the company does not have to account for ACT . |
| 11 | The EC customers to whom VAT-free charges are made will have to account for VAT under the reverse charge mechanism in their member states . |
| 12 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 13 | If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded . |
| 14 | However , there is clearly a need for Tack to account for expenditure as an individual . |
| 15 | There was no consensus as to the credibility of the commonly mentioned estimate of 100,000 Iraqi war dead , no official figures having been provided despite the obligation under the Geneva Convention for the military authorities to attempt to account for enemy dead . |
| 16 | Such small firms will be required to account for VAT once a year , and then only on bills actually paid . |
| 17 | For example , you have to account for money spent on holidays , and it 's wise to set a certain amount aside for emergencies , like the boiler breaking down . |
| 18 | These codes apply to conduct which may involve risk issues as well as other situations , and members may be held to account for behaviour which falls short of the required standard . |