Example sentences of "can account for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these reports should be interpreted with caution in the light of several factors that can account for misleading results . |
| 2 | Tribology technologies are ready for application , and can account for substantial savings to industry . |
| 3 | The aim of the research is to develop a scientific theory of the processes involved in face and person recognition that can account for normal performance , and will help in understanding the different types of difficulty in recognising faces experienced by patients who have had strokes . |
| 4 | This is more evidence for the claim that you get a verb phrase in a sentence erm , but it introduces , er it 's also an example of how you can account for grammatical phenomena in terms of er structural relations in sentences and large expressions . |
| 5 | Features of language that interest theoretical ( academic ) linguists include linguistic competence ( the way in which people decide whether a sentence is grammatical or not ) , language universals ( grammatical principles that apply to all natural languages ) and in finding the simplest , computationally most restricted theory that can account for natural language . |
| 6 | None of the aerosol-induced mechanisms currently proposed can account for this feature . |