Example sentences of "[noun] for the difference [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The reasons for the difference in treatment of gilding and silvering by the Romans is not clear .
2 The deep reasons for the difference in numbers of species are unknown — assuming , that is , that there are deep reasons .
3 These differences amongst institutions , and amongst their environments and perceptions of direction and identity , were to account in part for the differences of speed and conviction with which they raised the question of independence or autonomy — or , in the terminology of the time , academic freedom .
4 The principle of different spatial patterning accounting for the differences in animals applies right across the vertebrates .
5 It also endorsed the Ruding proposal for the difference between commercial and tax accounts to be reduced .
6 If planning permission is refused by the Secretary of State on appeal for a Part II application , the owner is entitled to compensation for the difference between his interest with and without the consent .
7 Although supplemental oxygen during gastroscopy significantly improved oxygen saturation ( p<0.001 ; 95% confidence intervals for the difference between the means : 2.9 to 4.7 ) , there was no correlation between oxygen saturation and any electrocardiographic changes .
8 In Chapter 3 , we looked at explanations for the differences in male and female criminality .
9 The 95% CI for the difference of 2.5% ranged from -11.8% to 16.8% and included zero .
10 In an age in which we have a keen sense for the difference between fact and symbol , Wilson-Kastner makes no distinction .
11 As the two treatment groups were not identical in severity of disease at the start of the trial , an analysis of covariance , with corresponding confidence intervals , was used to compare each measure between the groups after treatment , making adjustments for the differences in severity of disease before treatment as measured by the corresponding baseline measurement .
12 Softly be it stated , but that is the reason for the difference between the decision of the Court of Appeal in Anisminic … and the House of Lords .
13 One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine .
14 Stewart does not successfully refute the statement that the principal reason for the difference between the 1988 and 1990 forecasts was the reduction in HIV transmission among homosexual/bisexual men in the mid-1980s , the extent of which only became apparent between the reports .
15 This practice was divorced from using a potty and may also indicate the reason for the difference in attitude .
16 If so the requirement may be unjustified and the government may have no authority to impose it ( see the next paragraph for the difference between these possibilities ) .
17 Both ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ and ‘ The disappearance ’ are written by American woman authors in the 1900's , but ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ was set in the 1930's while ‘ The disappearance ’ was set in the 1970 's and I think this is the cause for the difference of the acceptance of the black race into a multi-racial community .
18 This argument does provide a plausible explanation for the differences between the results from some of the memory studies described earlier .
19 Petrey outlines the main areas of disagreement and suggests an explanation for the differences between the two schools .
20 Thus , we would suggest that these second types of explanation for the differences in the rate of crime between men and women — that female crime exists to a much greater extent than is indicated by the statistics but is just less often recorded — can not explain the enormous sex differences in recorded rates of crime .
21 Some factors should be considered to find an explanation for the difference between that study and this one .
22 This provides a likely explanation for the difference in size of the ears .
23 The other likely source for the differences in ratings is that subjects interpreted the normality task differently in the two situations .
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