Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] account " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case . |
| 2 | And the futures market is being manipulated to protect share prices : the Tokyo Stock Exchange , a mouthpiece of the finance ministry , wants the right to prevent securities firms from trading stock-index futures on their own account any time it thinks the stockmarket is ‘ overheated ’ . |
| 3 | Their Lordships endorse this statement of the manner in which the court should exercise its exceptional jurisdiction to halt criminal proceedings and , except in one respect , they prefer not to offer for their own account any further exploration of the prior authorities . |
| 4 | We have n't paid for it and therefore er , we er , you see a rather large item for provisions and minorities , that includes the ninety nine million consideration that er , went out of the door in July , as well , of course , as the substantial provisions that Thames made , in their own accounts for their property leases and for er , potential losses on the disposal of Reeves their West Coast , U S production company . |
| 5 | Equally impossible would be an adequate explanation of taste-changes : is it reasonable to account for the advent of jazz , rock 'n' roll , beat and punk in terms of ‘ pseudo-individualization ’ within an underlying process of simple reproduction ? |
| 6 | Accordingly the law insists that a former employee can not be prevented from turning to his own account his professional skill and knowledge even though it may have been acquired whilst in employment and at the employer 's expense . |
| 7 | This certainly makes it difficult to account for the development of style within a small , group of six mosaics such as we have here . |