Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [prep] the fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 2 | The increased sensitivity of cattle stealing to hardship may be largely accounted for by the fact that at this time more cattle stealing was carried out casually , mostly for immediate consumption as beef . |
| 3 | If this theory is right , then the presence of tigers in Siberia today is accounted for by the fact that when the ice relented and moved northward again , the tiger , complete with its new stripes , followed in search of fresh fields and new sources of prey . |
| 4 | Similarly , the poorer progress of Bangladeshi children could in part be accounted for by the fact that Bangladeshi communities suffer from the effects of poor housing , poverty and high rates of unemployment ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | Much of what has been considered to be poststructuralism 's wild disregard for history can be accounted for by the fact that it was operating within this — largely unknown outside France — anti-empiricist and anti-positivist tradition . |
| 6 | According to Professor Van de Wetering , the first publicly to criticise the restoration , these discrepancies can all be accounted for by the fact that each of the three investigations were conducted to answer completely different questions . |
| 7 | The omission of the words is , however , sufficiently accounted for by the fact that they were part of the definition of the trespassory taking which it was a principal object of the [ Theft Act 1968 ] to abolish . |
| 8 | All this could be accounted for by the fact that Picasso was working on a very large scale and found it necessary to simplify his technique and adopt a bolder approach . |
| 9 | The radical simplification of forms which characterizes the painting can be accounted for by the fact that this was one of the first canvases in which Braque attempted to work from memory . |
| 10 | The long-breathed sonority of his style may to some extent be accounted for by the fact that he stands to play , and uses the German underhand bow-grip : mostly though , it 's pure genius . |