Example sentences of "one [vb -s] account of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |
| 2 | According to The Mirage Resort , the gate receipt from the crowd of 16,000 was a world record of $9.1million ( £6m ) , which seems slightly suspect since that works out an average of $500 before one takes account of the undisclosed figure of complimentary tickets . |
| 3 | Girls are underrepresented in the exclusion statistics — which would imply that there is unlawful sex discrimination , until one takes account of the well-documented fact that the behaviour of girls and boys and girls at school differs . |
| 4 | The thesis of ‘ The intentional fallacy ’ , that the meaning of the words in a text is , and should be treated as , a matter of public knowledge , seems wholly unexceptionable as far as the dictionary-definition ( the ‘ denotation ’ ) of words is concerned ; but it seems much more problematic when one takes account of the broader associations that words carry with them ( ‘ connotations ’ ) . |
| 5 | We have seen by now in a good number of cases , including those immediately above , that when one takes account of the interaction between the meanings of particular words and the value of the constructions in which they may be used , it is often easy to see why certain structures are grammatical , and others are not ; this may enable us to say in turn why other related structures are ungrammatical . |