Example sentences of "for the difference [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These differences amongst institutions , and amongst their environments and perceptions of direction and identity , were to account in part for the differences of speed and conviction with which they raised the question of independence or autonomy — or , in the terminology of the time , academic freedom .
2 The local complications of gonococcal infection can then be predicted from a knowledge of the local anatomy , with appropriate allowance being made for the differences between the sexes .
3 Not all of the factors responsible for the differences between the nature conservation/agriculture interface in the UK and French uplands stem from the LFA Directive .
4 No definitive explanations have been worked out for the differences between the two concentrations that lie 3000 kilometres apart in Antarctica .
5 The old way of calculating how many inches of fish per square foot of surface area does not allow for the differences between different fish .
6 Work on knowledge about language should involve discussion of matters such as sexist language ; styles of interaction in social groups ( see below ) ; how hidden messages about social groups ( such as teenagers or older people ) which are conveyed by advertising etc. can be decoded for the values they contain and for the differences between what is said and what is implied .
7 Claims made for the differences between speech and writing , then , are put into perspective by the fact that the same claims are attributed to other variables .
8 This argument does provide a plausible explanation for the differences between the results from some of the memory studies described earlier .
9 But in spite of their strength in accounting for historical continuities and pulling together many diverse elements Marxist analyses can not adequately account for the differences between capitalist health care systems and the details of their development , and the empirical evidence often contradicts the logic of the argument .
10 It accounts for the differences between ( a ) and ( c ) and between ( b ) and ( d ) of Fig. 21.18 .
11 According to Willie van Peer 's introductory statement , the book is intended to promote a reconciliation between literary and linguistic approaches to the study of literature , and , more specifically , to provide a much-needed contribution in three fundamental directions : first , the development of a theory of textuality which accounts both for the way in which all texts function in society and for the differences between literary and non-literary texts ; secondly , the construction of a model of literary communication that gives an adequate account of the complexities involved in the production and reception of literary texts ; and thirdly , the development of more explicit and comprehensive accounts of the ways in which formal and contextual factors interact in the process of deriving interpretations from texts .
12 Petrey outlines the main areas of disagreement and suggests an explanation for the differences between the two schools .
13 The principle of different spatial patterning accounting for the differences in animals applies right across the vertebrates .
14 Thus , we would suggest that these second types of explanation for the differences in the rate of crime between men and women — that female crime exists to a much greater extent than is indicated by the statistics but is just less often recorded — can not explain the enormous sex differences in recorded rates of crime .
15 In Chapter 3 , we looked at explanations for the differences in male and female criminality .
16 It included also the description of those specialized features of morphology and physiology that distinguish species and might ( often by more or less inspired guesswork ) be said to account for the differences in their distribution .
17 A summary of the results accounting for the differences in expressed PLC activities is shown in Fig. 2 a ; this shows that the net increase in inositol phosphate formation induced by βγ t was about fivefold higher for cells expressing PLC- β2 than for cells expressing PLC- β1 .
18 The major problems included the need to account for the differences in the schools ' intakes , deciding which groups of pupils were included in the result statistics ( e.g. whether sixth form pupils taking ‘ O ’ levels were included along with 5th formers ) , and the problem , for outsiders such as Gray , of getting hold of all the relevant statistics .
19 These results suggest that ( allowing for the differences in trading hours between markets ) , information from foreign stock markets is reflected in the Finnish index futures market within a few hours , but not in the underlying spot market .
20 Allowing for the differences in stance has far more chance of success : then it is just a question of deciding which way the ball will fly from certain lies .
21 The total Scottish Block is calculated each year by simply adopting the changes in expenditure agreed for comparable programmes in England and Wales , adjusted for the differences in population .
22 The other likely source for the differences in ratings is that subjects interpreted the normality task differently in the two situations .
23 Her mother also favoured a small black number , while her father and Martin Parr were like twins , except for the differences in size and weight .
24 As the two treatment groups were not identical in severity of disease at the start of the trial , an analysis of covariance , with corresponding confidence intervals , was used to compare each measure between the groups after treatment , making adjustments for the differences in severity of disease before treatment as measured by the corresponding baseline measurement .
25 There are probably other factors also responsible for the differences in permeability observed between patients with and without active disease .
26 However , Anderson 's loquacity is only partially suggested by the statistics , for the differences in average turn-length between his utterances and those of the other interlocutors are not always very wide .
27 I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had .
28 What accounts for the differences from town to town , or the similarities between them ?
29 It is therefore not surprising that many variants of the interaction between stellar winds and molecular clouds have been explored to account for the differences from one H-H object to another .
30 If so the requirement may be unjustified and the government may have no authority to impose it ( see the next paragraph for the difference between these possibilities ) .
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