Example sentences of "[pron] can account for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 This is the only way that we can account for the career of King Vidor .
5 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 .
6 Indeed , they can account for the variety and juxtaposition of rocks in a rather more detailed way than the above outline suggests .
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