Example sentences of "we account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might at least be fair about the ways in which we account for pupils ' behaviour . |
| 2 | Rolle suggests that this is begun in thought of the four last things : death , for " we lyve bot in a poynt " in " uncertente of owre endyng " ; judgement , when we account for our use of time " and ilk tyme we thynk not on God , we may cownt it als we have tynt " ( 4.95.19 – 22 , 38 – 9 ) ; heaven , the joy which is " mare any may tell " ; and hell , where also is burning in fire ( 4.96.46 – 7 , 54 ) . |
| 3 | We 're like , we account for probably over nearly forty percent of revenue from the depot this |
| 4 | Are we to account for the behaviour of the state in terms of the behaviour of its constituent bureaucracies ( and other agencies ) , or vice versa ? |
| 5 | Are we to account for the behaviour of a bureaucracy in terms of the behaviour of the human individuals comprising it , or vice versa ? |
| 6 | Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | How do we account for this obfuscation ? |
| 10 | How do we account for this ? |
| 11 | What alternative was offered , and how can we account for its lack of success and ultimate demise in the interwar period ? |
| 12 | How , she asks , can we account for evil in a world that has been created by a good God ? |
| 13 | How should we account for their racism and sexism ? |
| 14 | So how do we account for the dramatic increase in the average size of the remand population over the same period ? |
| 15 | Why do we account for 41 per cent . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | How do we account for the minimal pairs given in Chapter 9 ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Realism offers a way of explaining what is observed , which , for example , allows us to account for observed socio-spatial polarization in residence in terms of the generative mechanisms of the capitalist mode of production . |
| 20 | He wants us to account for our stewardship . |
| 21 | The distinction just seen with noun objects is also applicable to examples with the infinitive and will allow us to account for the distribution of to with cause and make . |