Example sentences of "[pron] account for the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | No new procedure is without technical problems , which account for the phenomenon of the learning curve that occurs with all new technical treatments . |
| 2 | The limestone was deposited in very quiet water conditions , which accounts for the preservation of this delicate little fossil . |
| 3 | His daughter by his first wife , and only child , married into the Hulton family of Lancashire , which accounts for the survival of his papers in the County Record Office at Preston and in the British Library . |
| 4 | The factor which accounts for the bulk of the variance in responses ( 27 per cent ) is composed of attitudes towards the process of SSE , with its product , the bringing about of changes in schools , being only weakly correlated , suggesting that teachers simply do not see evaluation as necessarily linked to subsequent action . |
| 5 | As has been pointed out , several important nazi ideas come directly from English sources , and it was the use of such indigenous ideas rather than the copying of a successful foreign movement which accounted for the ideology of English racial nationalism . |
| 6 | Now that MIPS Technologies Inc is in its back pocket , Silicon Graphics Inc has gone ahead and acted on its promise to service MIPS ' OEM business which accounted for the bulk of its revenues . |
| 7 | could in itself account for the presence of high cAMP values . |
| 8 | Then why had her hands become inexplicably clammy — and how could she account for the unsteadiness of her breathing ? |
| 9 | Are we to account for the behaviour of the state in terms of the behaviour of its constituent bureaucracies ( and other agencies ) , or vice versa ? |
| 10 | Are we to account for the behaviour of a bureaucracy in terms of the behaviour of the human individuals comprising it , or vice versa ? |
| 11 | How else were they to account for the martyrdom of Tel al-Za'atar , the huge Palestinian camp under siege in east Beirut ? |
| 12 | It accounts for the determination of the Jerusalem leaders that there must be no independent Samaritan church growing up without the age-old split from Judaism being healed ( Acts 8 ) . |
| 13 | It accounts for the decision of the Council of Jerusalem that the issue of circumcision must not be allowed to split the Church ( Acts 15 ) . |
| 14 | In a diagram : There is a significant distinction in meaning between the two nevertheless , and it accounts for the use of the bare infinitive with the former . |
| 15 | Marx , however , realized that the need to make a living could never directly explain what human beings do , nor could it account for the complexity of human history itself . |
| 16 | How adequately does it account for the development of economic policy and the poor performance of the British economy ? |
| 17 | What accounts for the complexity of the problem of evaluation is not only the economic and social costs involved themselves , but the interests , conflicting or in harmony , of those who pay the costs and those who reap the benefits . |
| 18 | The distinction just seen with noun objects is also applicable to examples with the infinitive and will allow us to account for the distribution of to with cause and make . |