Example sentences of "to account for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena . |
| 2 | We know , therefore , that the frequency of landslides is quite enough to account for a major part of the wearing down of new mountain chains . |
| 3 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 4 | This very strong assumption precludes any role for unobserved variables to account for a substantial proportion of population heterogeneity . |
| 5 | After 1760 , with the acceleration in turnpike trust formation and the advent of the canal age , investment in transport came to account for a substantial fraction of total capital investment in Britain . |
| 6 | Paraphimosis is rare in children and unlikely to account for a substantial number of circumcisions . |
| 7 | The Soviet Union used to account for a substantial slice of the factory 's exports . |
| 8 | By the time of Copernicus , in the fifteenth century , the interaction of 77 mathematical circles , forming cycloids and ellipses as necessary , was required to account for the apparent motion of the Sun , Moon and five planets about the Earth . |
| 9 | In other regions , e.g. Dorset or North Yorks. , a period of c. 20-30 years usually appears long enough to account for the major part of a feature 's development , ( this is possibly the working life of an individual craftsman ) . |
| 10 | By abandoning any logic of progress for the negative synthesis of anti-labour which produces deviation , Sartre is , on the other hand , able to account for the major detour that provides the context for his whole debate with Merleau-Ponty , and indeed for all post-war Marxism : the spectre of Stalinism . |
| 11 | Even taking an ethologist 's view that young men are fighting animals who need to work off aggression harmlessly in play — a sweeping and contentious assumption — we st ill have to account for the specific form of football hooliganism since the 1960s . |
| 12 | The labour process , it is argued , can not be seen merely as an economic process attendant upon capitalist rationality and imposed on the workforce ; it is embedded in social and cultural practices , and without an understanding of this apparatus , particularly the meanings attached to work , it is difficult to account for the specific form of change , for the relationships between ‘ work ’ and ‘ leisure ’ , and for the significance of skill and social relations at the point of production . |
| 13 | ( Age and sex were included to account for the changing age and sex structures of the populations between the censuses . ) |
| 14 | An increased freedom in life-style might be supposed to account for the increased variability in timing of daily rhythms that is found in the elderly . |
| 15 | In short , the government is being called to account for the economic disaster that is present-day Nicaragua . |
| 16 | In short , the government is being called to account for the economic disaster that is present-day Nicaragua . |
| 17 | Remember we are concerned eventually to account for the repeatable contribution constituents make to the significance of signals involving them ; this being of the essence when syntax is recursive , or creative . |
| 18 | It was unable to account for the details of the orbit of the planet Mercury and was unable to account for the variable mass of fast-moving electrons in discharge tubes . |
| 19 | A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) . |
| 20 | For an atom with many electrons , we can still use the one-electron atom wave-functions as approximate descriptions of the behavior of the electrons , though we should modify the functions to account for the mutual repulsion of the electrons . |
| 21 | But it 's clear that it 's hardly plausible to account for the current indie mire in those terms , as a problem of indulgence , pretentiousness , over-inflated ambition and gross-out . |
| 22 | This rapid production of InsP 3 is fast enough to account for the odorant-induced generator potentials which appear after a latency of 100–200ms . |
| 23 | These stars are both luminous enough and hot enough to account for the total luminosity within 5pc of the nucleus , estimated to be 0.5–2.0x10 7 , L and ; ( refs 67 , 68 ) . |
| 24 | A number of mechanisms have been implicated to account for the adverse effect of thiazide diuretics on lipid metabolism , which include reduced lipoprotein lipase activity secondary to the decrease in insulin action ( Grimm et al , 1981 ) . |
| 25 | Even so , using multivariate analysis to adjust for many of these , including cigarette smoking , sex , duration of diabetes , hypertension and obesity , the Framingham investigators concluded that all these are insufficient to account for the excess incidence of coronary heart disease , particularly in female diabetics ( Garcia et al , 1974 ) . |
| 26 | Therefore , it seems likely that Jupiter has powerful internal sources of heat , and to account for the excess radiation these would make the interior hot . |
| 27 | Not only that , he would know well in advance the order of the programme , and consequently would have altered his training dramatically to account for the extra distance . |
| 28 | In fact , at one stage in this study our thoughts ran on catastrophes of a biblical kind and we pictured half-seriously a universal conflagration to account for the black band . |
| 29 | A tradition of language study which neglected this , as nineteenth-century philology did , failed to account for the real nature of its object . |
| 30 | At this point in the poem , Leapor , like Swift , attempts to account for the eventual unhappiness of the marriage . |