Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] account for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since it has proved notoriously difficult for determinists to account for the emergence of new and revolutionary ideas , it would surely be wise of Althusser to show how he proposes to do it . |
| 2 | The diversity of crime accounts for the unconvincing nature of attempts to explain it by all-encompassing theories . |
| 3 | Simmel effectively extends Marx 's concept of rupture to account for the inability of modern individuals to recognize themselves in the world of goods . |
| 4 | That , plus £250m of property writedowns — half in Britain and half in the United States — and another £100m of provisions account for the £450m fall in Heron 's value . |
| 5 | The private sector has , in fact , been struggling with the intricacies of inflation accounting for the last 25 years and have , by and large , abandoned the idea as being too difficult . |
| 6 | Pre-eruption vesiculation has been inferred previously using microgravity at andesitic stratocones ( Poas and Pacaya ) where only 1–2% change in the degree of vesiculation accounts for the observed changes ( of 100μGal ) . |
| 7 | Yet how can a certain number of equations account for the complexity and trivial detail that we see around us ? |
| 8 | I then got involved with the company itself , preparing the end of year accounts for the audit and dealing with statutory matters for the group . |
| 9 | These may be for short periods of time to account for the non-matching of the firm 's payments and receipts from its business . |
| 10 | Maestro has 11% , IEF and Oracle CASE 9% , Foundation and Compagnie Generale d'Informatique SA 's PacBase 8% , Verilog Inc 's Age 6% , Cadre Technolgies Inc 's Teamwork 5% , Bachman Information Systems Inc 's Bachman Designer , Intersolv Inc 's Excelerator and LBMS Inc 's Systems Engineer 3% , with others accounting for the remaining 22% . |
| 11 | Equally depression of prostaglandin synthesis , by diminishing pain perception , could at least in part account for the high proportion of NSAID associated ulcers that are silent . |
| 12 | We might be tempted also to say that other benefits of depreciation accounting would ensue , such as producing a charge in revenue accounts for the use of assets , rather than as at present for the financing of assets . |
| 13 | As Pawley and Syder point out , the number of such formulaic or composite expressions runs into very many thousands and the ability to apply them in use accounts for the fluency of the native speaker . |
| 14 | You might anticipate that dust from space accounts for the mare infills , but this is not the case . |
| 15 | Such changes are made in English to account for the notion more than one and for the notion meaning approximately in the past in verbs . |
| 16 | Each binding step could cause a partial opening of the channel in order to account for the different conducting states observed in patch recordings of purified IP 3 Rs ( ref. 49 ) . |
| 17 | In the second place , some choice theorists , working within the traditions of the common law , feel compelled to acknowledge the existence of a limitation upon the enforcement of promises and agreements in order to account for the common law 's doctrine of consideration . |
| 18 | The attack on Quine therefore has two prongs , the rejection of MP and an attempt to show that we do not need to be atomists in order to account for the possibility of language learning . |
| 19 | There is no need , it is argued , to postulate any such substrata in order to account for the idea of particular identity . |
| 20 | This means that the initial state of the universe would have to have had exactly the same temperature everywhere in order to account for the fact that the microwave background has the same temperature in every direction we look . |
| 21 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 22 | Any plate tectonics model of the Andes must in fact account for the uplift essentially in terms of vertical tectonics . |
| 23 | You will have to apply para 41 if you are to equity account for the associate in accordance with standard practice . |
| 24 | The high level of the hormone progesterone during pregnancy accounts for the increase in breast size . |
| 25 | Gosse was perplexed at the vast tracts of time required by geologists to account for the deposition of all the strata . |