Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] account for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Jeanette Lamb , a research team member at the Institute of Molecular Medicine , John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford , said : ‘ We have found a cause for mental retardation that may account for a large proportion of the unexplained cases . ’
2 Within this region we noted two short T n A elements and one ATTTA element that may account for the low steady-state levels of RNA seen in transfected cells ( see below ) .
3 This type of geomorphology , which has subsequently attracted both great support and disenchantment , has been the subject of at least two groups of interpretations and it is perhaps the lack of equal familiarity with the achievements of both groups that may account for the differing viewpoints some of which are listed in Table 4.1 .
4 If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos .
5 The theories that have guided these insights into the mechanisms of psychotic and creative thought do not , of course , specify what it is about the brain that might account for the differences observed in schizophrenic and schizotypal individuals .
6 A feature on the noises made by muscles in action had several member of staff listening to their own thunder by covering their ears with their thumbs and tightening their hand into fists The magazine also revived all the explanation that could account for the Loch Ness monster , an overture to the silly season , though there was little evidence that there would be one this year .
7 If a particular group is disproportionately represented in prison , are there other , independent variables that could account for the correlation ?
8 She questioned him , trying to find out if he had an infection that could account for the temperature .
9 By extension , for many 19th-century commentators , there was an urgent need for a science of woman that would account for the nature of femininity .
10 Whatever understanding of societies we gain in future , we do not now have a theory of ideology capable of explaining the myriad ways in which individuals perceive their situations , nor a theory of the social determination of character that will account for the vicissitudes of history .
11 This makes it difficult for traders to recognize arbitrage possibilities involving a future on a geometric index when the future is underpriced , and may account for the replacement of the geometric VLCI future by its arithmetic equivalent .
12 Behaviour within the system 's context may be more easily observable and may account for the many user studies which persist in observing users in terms of the information system and not in terms of the user .
13 Although it may not be possible to achieve therapeutic effects in the colon with this formulation , small bowel luminal concentrationmay be higher , and might account for the reports of possible benefit in small numbers of patients with coeliac and Crohn 's disease .
14 Most scientists believe the infill to be lava , and though there are no features yet seen on the Moon that are definitely volcanic , floods of lava from fissures that are buried beneath their own lava are known on the Earth and could account for the mare infill on the Moon .
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