Example sentences of "[pers pn] account [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if so , how do you account for the fact that the forwards were yet again beaten in the battle for primary possession . |
| 2 | ‘ And that gap in your defences — the blind spot on darkside — how do you account for that ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ How do you account for being acquitted , then ? |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ How do you account for Heather 's obsession with a long forgotten student club , Harry ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Then how , ’ he demanded , ‘ do you account for this afternoon , in the woods ? |
| 7 | How do you account for that ? |
| 8 | Then why had her hands become inexplicably clammy — and how could she account for the unsteadiness of her breathing ? |
| 9 | And so , on 9 February , 1950 , to a startled audience of women Republicans in Wheeling , West Virginia , McCarthy raised the favourite bogey : ‘ How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster ? |
| 10 | And how can we account for its appearance now when less than two years ago , Reagan and his government-shrinking colleagues attempted an across-the-board 12-per cent blood-letting on the research and development budget they had inherited from Jimmy Carter ? |
| 11 | How do we account for this obfuscation ? |
| 12 | How do we account for this ? |
| 13 | What alternative was offered , and how can we account for its lack of success and ultimate demise in the interwar period ? |
| 14 | How , she asks , can we account for evil in a world that has been created by a good God ? |
| 15 | How should we account for their racism and sexism ? |
| 16 | So how do we account for the dramatic increase in the average size of the remand population over the same period ? |
| 17 | Why do we account for 41 per cent . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | How do we account for the minimal pairs given in Chapter 9 ? |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | How do they account for this apparent non-neutrality of money ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | How adequately does it account for the development of economic policy and the poor performance of the British economy ? |
| 25 | How does he account for what went wrong ? |
| 26 | Make them account for their actions . |
| 27 | 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 . |