Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [adv] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may also account for the small size of halls at West Stow , the uncompacted sand subsoil being incapable of taking the strain of a large building with earth-fast timbers . |
| 2 | This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life . |
| 3 | Unlike the ECSC , the whole concept had been modelled as a body in which Britain might participate : this may partly account for the diluted supranational element . |
| 4 | It is obscured to some extent by the heavily didactic purpose of Masterman Ready and this may partly account for the fact that young readers have always claimed the adult novel , Mr Midshipman Easy , as their own , even though it must always have made considerable demands on their reading skills and their understanding . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This might then account for the apparently non-environmentally controlled distribution pattern in which other species could insinuate themselves in the holes of the forest ‘ lattice ’ devoid of the first species . |
| 7 | But this would also account for the fact that within this system many singers — Marie Lloyd , for instance — retained performing styles heavily influenced by oral traditions ; they often did not read music — as , notoriously , the accompanying orchestras had to remember . |
| 8 | This would also account for the significantly greater proportion of women in group A , as the incidence of gall stones is higher in women than men and in this study the excess of patients with gall bladder calculi was made up by women . |
| 9 | But this would never do for the gilded 1960s radicals . |