Example sentences of "you account for " in BNC.

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1 If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there .
2 If you add up all the various er stroke and heart and lung diseases , er you account for possibly fifty or sixty per cent of all the deaths that occur in Great Britain each year .
3 But if so , how do you account for the fact that the forwards were yet again beaten in the battle for primary possession .
4 ‘ And that gap in your defences — the blind spot on darkside — how do you account for that ? ’
5 ‘ How do you account for being acquitted , then ?
6 ‘ 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 ? ’
7 ‘ How do you account for Heather 's obsession with a long forgotten student club , Harry ? ’
8 ‘ Then how , ’ he demanded , ‘ do you account for this afternoon , in the woods ?
9 How do you account for that ?
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