Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] account for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of cocaine this effect is direct , which may account for the drug 's peculiar potency . |
| 2 | We used paraffin sections which may account for the 50% sensitivity that we found . |
| 3 | In Europe police organisation is hierarchical , centralised and supervised by the government , all of which may account for the tendency to rely on police investigations while , at the same time , declining to constrain them by the kind of normative rules we find in Anglo-American law . |
| 4 | The analyses are used to look for patterns in the types of information available from stimuli which may account for the previous risk and recognition results and the relationships between risk and recognition . |
| 5 | Moreover , the reduced plasminogen activator activity of malignant ascites is caused by increased concentrations of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , which may account for the lower incidence of coagulopathy after insertion of shunts seen in this group of patients . |
| 6 | As it must be swallowed , the layer is not too thick , which may account for the common occurrence of relatively thin layers of nutritious material over a single seed or a few seeds in a fruit . |
| 7 | Some toxins have been identified , and one makes the blood vessels more leaky , which might account for the production of urticaria . |
| 8 | Finally , ethanol is a potent inhibitor of the IP 3 R , which might account for the ataxia associated with ethanol intoxication . |
| 9 | Maybe they even try to swim against it which might account for the length of time that passes before they reach European waters . |
| 10 | Using existing data sets , it will make initial estimates of the scale of any effect which low incomes might have on the health if the elderly in Britain , and go on to assess the likely role of some intervening variables which might account for the close correlation between income distribution and longevity in developed countries . |
| 11 | One thing which could account for a greater distinctiveness in memory of risky situations would be the idea that risky situations constitute a small number of rather unusual items among a large number of more similar ones . |
| 12 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 13 | As was suggested above , there were , within the internal development of psychoanalysis , new findings which necessitated a new conceptualization which could account for the compulsion to repeat unpleasurable experiences . |
| 14 | There were no obvious differences between the studies in the way in which they were conducted which could account for the wide range of rates of dream reporting from NREM sleep . |
| 15 | For a massive planet consisting largely of hydrogen and helium there are two main sources of heat for the interior , each of which could account for the excess radiation . |
| 16 | Two hypotheses are worth mentioning , either of which would account for a significant number of cases . |
| 17 | In some cases , the symptoms may have been psychosomatic in origin , which would account for the good effect of the placebo . |
| 18 | Althusser actually says that an ideal explanation would map out the relations between different factors down to and including individuals , and thus outlines a programme for a perfect social theory which would account for the parts played by individuals in social organisation and change . |
| 19 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 20 | Further , some very salient Liverpool dialect phenomena such as syllable-final aspirated fricatives ( e.g. [ bu ? h ] ‘ bush ’ ) are probably best described not quantitatively , but qualitatively in terms of the articulatory setting peculiar to the dialect , which can account for a number of superficially quite diverse phonetic characteristics . |
| 21 | A Hair is always affected by the chemical changes taking place within our body , which can account for the fact that perms will sometimes be successful and sometimes not . |
| 22 | I would call genealogy … a form of history which can account for the constitution of knowledges , discourses , domains of objects etc. , without having to make reference to a subject which is either transcendental in relation to the field of events or runs in its empty sameness throughout the course of history . |
| 23 | By adopting a text-based approach he searches for an explicit and comprehensive communicative theory which can account for the psychological effects created by poetic texts . |
| 24 | Overseas businesses intending to adopt the simplification arrangements must send written notification to LVO 050 , Customs House , 28 Guild Street , Aberdeen , AB9 2DY , confirming : the overseas supplier 's name , address and VAT number ; brief details of the supplies to be made in the UK and when they are to start ; and the name , address and VAT number of the UK customer(s) who will account for the tax . |
| 25 | If you had less structure as in T three which is a ternary branching tree , instead of binary branching be just an N P B N P , it 's real hard to see how you can account for the data . |
| 26 | We must account for every idle word , never talk with anyone or undertake any trifling employment merely to pass the time of day . |
| 27 | This is the only way that we can account for the career of King Vidor . |
| 28 | If the theory survives these tests , it will probably be some years more before we develop computational methods that will enable us to make predictions and before we can account for the initial conditions of the universe as well as the local physical laws . |
| 29 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 30 | What the cracks were like and how they got there he did not say , but he did show that , if they existed , which was not unreasonable , they would account for the weakness of ordinary glass . |