Example sentences of "can account for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 2 | The researchers suggest that game theory , rather than kin selection , can account for the general absence of fighting over females within a coalition . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is the only way that we can account for the career of King Vidor . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No purely internal linguistic explanation can account for the fact that the change happened in this way in some dialects and in different ways in others . |
| 7 | In what follows my main purposes are : ( 1 ) to demonstrate the patterns of simplification that can be traced by comparing our inner-city data with that of the city-wide random sample ‘ doorstep ’ survey and the outer-city community studies ; and ( 2 ) to consider how far a theory of strong and weak ties can account for the maintenance of complex patterns and the development of simpler ones . |
| 8 | A superiority in either the perception of shape or in the perception of direction , if in fact these functions are dissociable , can account for the left hand advantage in Braille reading found for both experienced blind subjects ( Hermelin & O'Connor , 1971 ) and blindfolded normal subjects ( Smith , Chu and Edmonston , 1977 ; Harriman and Castell , 1979 ) taught to read Braille . |
| 9 | If the theory survives these tests , it will probably be some years more before we develop computational methods that will enable us to make predictions and before we can account for the initial conditions of the universe as well as the local physical laws . |
| 10 | Compass orientation , we have seen , can account for the seasonal movements of birds and butterflies , which could find their way by just flying in a particular direction . |
| 11 | Beyond this depth the compression of solid rock such as silicates can account for the increasing wave speeds . |
| 12 | Indeed , they can account for the variety and juxtaposition of rocks in a rather more detailed way than the above outline suggests . |
| 13 | If you had less structure as in T three which is a ternary branching tree , instead of binary branching be just an N P B N P , it 's real hard to see how you can account for the data . |
| 14 | This hypothesis can account for the fact that on cooling , rapid crystal growth is seen to occur which is inconsistent with the need for long range diffusion if the regularly folding lamellae were forming . |
| 15 | The use of a different ( European ) donor pool can account for the difference . |
| 16 | Although the chromatography eluants used in this study are particularly suited to detecting tobacco related carcinogens — and will miss some small molecular weight adducts altogether — it is unlikely that smoking can account for the increased adduct levels found as the percentage of smokers in the truncal vagotomy group ( 54% ) was very similar to that of the highly selective vagotomy patients ( 52% ) . |
| 17 | By adopting a text-based approach he searches for an explicit and comprehensive communicative theory which can account for the psychological effects created by poetic texts . |