Example sentences of "[adj] account [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 2 | ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’ |
| 3 | This accounts for the small size of the Taos microkernel , which provides memory and process management , load balancing and precious little else . |
| 4 | This accounts for the small size of the Taos microkernel , which provides memory and process management , load balancing and precious little else . |
| 5 | Probably this accounts for the greater part of the increase in sede vacante presentations made by the king , but he and his clerks pushed their claims to the limit . |
| 6 | This accounts for the extraordinary difficulty inherent in formulating a theory of the novel . |
| 7 | Liquidity surpluses have become quite common and this accounts for the increased issue of Treasury bills of late . |
| 8 | A registered charity , all dogs and prospective owners are vetted and this accounts for the high success rate but it must be kept in mind that people who need to find a new home for their dog usually have a problem , or a problem dog . |
| 9 | This accounts for the high turnover in membership … the recruit having seen emphasis laid on military activity is not prepared for the political activity which must come before it . |
| 10 | Incidentally this accounts for the interminable debate about education , since objectives are not specifiable the content can only emerge as a consensus within the current zeitgeist . |
| 11 | An increased freedom in life-style might be supposed to account for the increased variability in timing of daily rhythms that is found in the elderly . |
| 12 | Murie says that this was also happening under the previous system : ‘ As the new subsidy scheme under the Housing Act 1980 had been operated to increase council rents ( which in 1982–3 accounted for a higher proportion of average earnings than at any time since 1945 ) , so exchequer subsidies have fallen ’ . |
| 13 | The frail or very elderly account for an increasing number of pensioners , and that emphasises the importance of nursing home and residential care . |
| 14 | That accounts for the pinkish colour I found in the incisors of both remains . ’ |
| 15 | Erm , that accounts for the reduced allocation and the setting up fees as well . |
| 16 | By abandoning any logic of progress for the negative synthesis of anti-labour which produces deviation , Sartre is , on the other hand , able to account for the major detour that provides the context for his whole debate with Merleau-Ponty , and indeed for all post-war Marxism : the spectre of Stalinism . |
| 17 | Chomsky states that grammar must be based on two things : observation of language ability to satisfy the native speaker 's intuition about his language For example , it must be able to account for the native speaker 's intuition that active or passive sentences are related to each other ; that some pairs of sentences , though alike on the surface , are different at a deeper level . |
| 18 | Paraphimosis is rare in children and unlikely to account for a substantial number of circumcisions . |
| 19 | It was unable to account for the details of the orbit of the planet Mercury and was unable to account for the variable mass of fast-moving electrons in discharge tubes . |
| 20 | A report from Oxford in this issue confirms an inverse relation between glucose tolerance in later life and birth weight ( p 302 ) but was unable to account for the marked impairment of β cell function in the type II diabetic subjects by low birth weight alone . |
| 21 | Even so , using multivariate analysis to adjust for many of these , including cigarette smoking , sex , duration of diabetes , hypertension and obesity , the Framingham investigators concluded that all these are insufficient to account for the excess incidence of coronary heart disease , particularly in female diabetics ( Garcia et al , 1974 ) . |
| 22 | Generally , any mechanism that relies on reactions between specific pairs of medium-sized clusters will be flawed , because their specific presence in the plasma will be too small to account for the high yield of the experiments . |
| 23 | It is far more difficult to account for a further type of confusion . |
| 24 | The labour process , it is argued , can not be seen merely as an economic process attendant upon capitalist rationality and imposed on the workforce ; it is embedded in social and cultural practices , and without an understanding of this apparatus , particularly the meanings attached to work , it is difficult to account for the specific form of change , for the relationships between ‘ work ’ and ‘ leisure ’ , and for the significance of skill and social relations at the point of production . |
| 25 | It is at first sight difficult to account for the anomalous position of Birmingham , which has a rather high productivity score , but whose proportion of first papers in the core journal set is low . |
| 26 | It is well beyond both the departure necessary to account for the Little Ice Age and , more important , beyond the range of potential departures estimated from astronomical data . |
| 27 | But it 's clear that it 's hardly plausible to account for the current indie mire in those terms , as a problem of indulgence , pretentiousness , over-inflated ambition and gross-out . |