Example sentences of "[noun] for the difference in " 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 The principle of different spatial patterning accounting for the differences in animals applies right across the vertebrates .
4 In Chapter 3 , we looked at explanations for the differences in male and female criminality .
5 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 .
6 This practice was divorced from using a potty and may also indicate the reason for the difference in attitude .
7 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 .
8 This provides a likely explanation for the difference in size of the ears .
9 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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