Example sentences of "account of [pron] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teachers ' accounts of what happened to them make disturbing reading . |
| 2 | The eye-witness accounts of what happened in those few minutes naturally vary in many details , but one of the most reliable descriptions of the actual eruption of the cloud was that of Monsieur Roger Arnoux , a member of the Astronomical Society of France , who was observing from a vantage point well above and away from the town . |
| 3 | The hon. Members for Stretford ( Mr. Lloyd ) and for Newham , North-East gave a telling and effective account of what happens during unemployment — of the destructive , demoralising and damaging effect on individuals who are unemployed . |
| 4 | The second stage of taphonomic modification takes account of what happens to the small mammal carcases shortly after death . |
| 5 | The weakness of this method is that it takes no account of what happens after the payback date is reached . |
| 6 | The weakness of this method is that it takes no account of what happens after the payback date is reached . |
| 7 | One of the themes of this book is that measures of poverty which are based on the family or the household as the unit of measurement can not accurately reflect the true extent of poverty among women because they take no account of what happens inside the family . |
| 8 | Write a detailed account of what happened during that period of the activity . |
| 9 | After more than 30 years ' work at Wharram Percy , it is possible to give a general account of what happened on the site , and , in view of the detailed work there , this may have implications for studies elsewhere . |
| 10 | The following extract is taken from his account of what happened to a Japanese doctor , Dr Sasaki : |
| 11 | In His account of what happened to the rich man and Lazarus after they died ( Luke 16 verses 19/31 ) Jesus quoted the words spoken to the rich man in hell , by Abraham and in verses 29 and 31 we see Abraham referring to Moses and The Prophets and clearly he is speaking specifically of the scriptures attributed to them . |
| 12 | You only have to think of the otherwise incomprehensible behaviour of someone who hails a cab with a flailing gesture of the outstretched arm and who , having failed , then feels it necessary to provide an account of what happened by using the same hand to smooth down the hair . |