Example sentences of "account of [pron] it be for " in BNC.

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1 Consider Hart 's account of what it is for a social rule to exist and his distinction between the internal and the external points of view .
2 All the work in this approach must go into a persuasive account of what it is for reasons to be conclusive .
3 The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it .
4 And from this account of empirical meaning there naturally arises an account of what it is for someone to understand a statement , or to know its meaning :
5 In fact , this means that our answer will amount to an account of what it is for a non-observation statement to be significant , and what it is that makes one such statement mean something different from what another one means .
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