Example sentences of "can account for [det] " in BNC.

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1 Lineage-based development , with its dependence on cytoplasmic localization , can account for much of the sea-squirt development but the idea should not be taken too far .
2 Thus , the no-boundary proposal can account for all the complicated structure that we see around us .
3 The only way I can account for that is he was exposed to some sort of nerve gas . ’
4 Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any .
5 Food is the most important item in the expenditure of most households in the Third World and can account for more than three-quarters of the budget of a poor urban family .
6 None of the aerosol-induced mechanisms currently proposed can account for this feature .
7 Who can account for this ?
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