Example sentences of "account [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect on prostaglandin production might account for the increase in dyspepsia associated with NSAIDs in patients colonised with Helicobacter pylori and could also protect the mucosa from superficial injury induced by NSAIDs . |
| 2 | Although there is a slight reduction in the number of cells per well over the culture period this could not account for the reduction in EGF binding seen . |
| 3 | The same factor may also account for the variation in amplitudes and frequencies noted by us and by Sunshine . |
| 4 | Although reduced feed consumption and diarrhoea affect liveweight gain they do not wholly account for the loss in production . |
| 5 | While this may account for part of the gap in the gross weekly earnings of men and women , however , it can not account for the difference in hourly rates of pay . |
| 6 | It seems possible , however , that the latter two studies were using substantially lower levels of stress than the former two and this may well account for the difference in results . |
| 7 | This , together with improvements in diet and exercise and also in the average man 's or woman 's physical environment throughout the century , may account for the decline in the death-rate which has continued to take place in recent years for those who have already reached middle age ( see Table I.6 ) . |
| 8 | Although the timescale of artificial selection experiments means that new mutations can contribute to the responses , in the above experiments accumulation of partially recessive mutations could not account for the decline in early performance , because the drop persisted in crosses between ‘ old ’ lines . |