Example sentences of "which [vb mod] account for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In Europe police organisation is hierarchical , centralised and supervised by the government , all of which may account for the tendency to rely on police investigations while , at the same time , declining to constrain them by the kind of normative rules we find in Anglo-American law . |
2 | In the case of cocaine this effect is direct , which may account for the drug 's peculiar potency . |
3 | Finally , ethanol is a potent inhibitor of the IP 3 R , which might account for the ataxia associated with ethanol intoxication . |
4 | Some toxins have been identified , and one makes the blood vessels more leaky , which might account for the production of urticaria . |
5 | Maybe they even try to swim against it which might account for the length of time that passes before they reach European waters . |
6 | As was suggested above , there were , within the internal development of psychoanalysis , new findings which necessitated a new conceptualization which could account for the compulsion to repeat unpleasurable experiences . |
7 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
8 | I would call genealogy … a form of history which can account for the constitution of knowledges , discourses , domains of objects etc. , without having to make reference to a subject which is either transcendental in relation to the field of events or runs in its empty sameness throughout the course of history . |
9 | A Hair is always affected by the chemical changes taking place within our body , which can account for the fact that perms will sometimes be successful and sometimes not . |