Example sentences of "[noun sg] could [adv] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Drummond Matthews , his supervisor , he showed that sea-floor spreading combined with periodic reversals in the direction of the Earth 's magnetic field could neatly account for the striking pattern of magnetism on the flanks of mid-ocean ridges . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the LEF-1 binding site could functionally substitute for the bacterial DNA-bending protein integration host factor ( IHF ) , suggesting that the HMG box moiety could act to create higher order nucleoprotein structures by bringing together widely spaced binding sites . |
| 3 | The fact that the numerical models do not incorporate this unique wet Late Permian palaeogeography could well account for the uniformly erroneous results . |
| 4 | Firstly , if more than one explanation could reasonably account for an apparent effect then sufficient doubt remains . |
| 5 | In light colours especially the ‘ short ’ wheelbase version could almost pass for a successor to the mid-range W124 . |