Example sentences of "[adv] account for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Fitzgerald and Sim ‘ there is not one crisis , rather a whole series , which taken together account for the parlous state of the prisons ’ ( 1992 : 5 ) . |
| 2 | This rapid production of InsP 3 is fast enough to account for the odorant-induced generator potentials which appear after a latency of 100–200ms . |
| 3 | In other regions , e.g. Dorset or North Yorks. , a period of c. 20-30 years usually appears long enough to account for the major part of a feature 's development , ( this is possibly the working life of an individual craftsman ) . |
| 4 | These stars are both luminous enough and hot enough to account for the total luminosity within 5pc of the nucleus , estimated to be 0.5–2.0x10 7 , L and ; ( refs 67 , 68 ) . |
| 5 | And then came the bier , its front draped with a shawl to indicate that it carried a woman , which perhaps accounted for the general meagreness of the proceedings . |
| 6 | The compartment gave only an oblique view of the altar , which perhaps accounted for the distinct murmur of conversation behind the grille . |
| 7 | As Brailsford had noted some years earlier : ‘ The decline of our trade with Germany , Russia and Austria would alone account for the whole volume of our present unemployment . ’ |
| 8 | As the water gets warmer , it is visualized that the structure becomes more random , thus accounting for the increased fluidity of the water at higher temperatures . |
| 9 | The extent and quality of briefing possibly accounts for the overwhelming view of the assistants that their duties were ones which they had expected to be doing when appointed . |
| 10 | On this basis , the nuclear programmes still accounted for the vast bulk of the capital and turnover and such profits as there were . |
| 11 | The constraints imposed on the market area by travel , therefore , probably account for the limited range of goods and services being provided at many sites , while more specialized facilities and luxury items were only available in the larger population centres where demand was greater . |
| 12 | The replies suggested that the choice of consultant and search firm was initially quite random , which partly accounts for the unsatisfactory performance occasionally experienced . |
| 13 | The decline in the number of farm workers partly accounts for the peculiar age structure of the industry . |
| 14 | The notion of " betrayal " took hold on militants in the labour movement and partly accounts for the bitter resentment between the Left and most union officials during the 1930s . |
| 15 | Macrophage death probably accounts for the cellular debris and cholesterol pools found in advanced lesions . |
| 16 | However this also accounts for the small size of the profession — there are at least 2000 qualified actuaries in the United Kingdom — and it 's relatively high status . |
| 17 | It also accounts for the extraordinary ability of shoppers to select from a huge array those goods most appropriate to themselves and their close friends or relatives . |
| 18 | It seems that the catalogue 's limited subject access could well have reinforced the user 's apparent preference for known-item searching and consequently may also partly account for the apparent increase in known-item searching as the user 's educational level rises . |
| 19 | This may also account for the small size of halls at West Stow , the uncompacted sand subsoil being incapable of taking the strain of a large building with earth-fast timbers . |
| 20 | It would also account for the immediate breach between Rufus and Matilda 's father , King Malcolm . |
| 21 | No women voted at all , which mainly accounts for the low proportion . |
| 22 | The diagram corresponding to ( 36 ) is therefore : With the above analysis we can now account for the paradoxical fact that the verb perceive is found more frequently with the to infinitive than with the bare version : ( 55 ) No one could possibly enter his rooms without perceiving him to be a man of wealth . |
| 23 | Remember we are concerned eventually to account for the repeatable contribution constituents make to the significance of signals involving them ; this being of the essence when syntax is recursive , or creative . |
| 24 | Not only that , he would know well in advance the order of the programme , and consequently would have altered his training dramatically to account for the extra distance . |
| 25 | A hgh hepatitis C virus circulation ( in Italy the prevalence of blood donors positive for anti-hepatitis C virus ranges from 0.68 to 1.38% ) could well account for the high prevalence of anti-hepatitis C virus in our series of chronic liver disease with unknown aetiology ( 66 of 100 ) : of the 66 anti-hepatitis C virus positive cases , however , only 21 were positive for the autoantibodies currently considered as reliable markers of autoimmune hepatitis . |
| 26 | How can we then account for the high occurrence of subject searches on online catalogues ? |
| 27 | A number of explanations have been put forward to account for the thick crust and high mean elevation of the Tibetan Plateau which also help to explain the great crustal shortening indicated by the post-collision convergence of the Indian and Eurasian Plates . |
| 28 | A wide range of factors has been put forward to account for the urban-rural shift and its phasing over time ( Champion , 1987b ) . |
| 29 | With Drummond Matthews , his supervisor , he showed that sea-floor spreading combined with periodic reversals in the direction of the Earth 's magnetic field could neatly account for the striking pattern of magnetism on the flanks of mid-ocean ridges . |
| 30 | In this case , it would seem natural to establish an accounting system that records the annual debts ( principal and interest ) , in which each year 's debt charges signal the property tax rate ( having taken account of rateable value ) and which subsequently accounts for the actual expenditure and actual revenues ( to determine whether next year 's taxes need adjusting ) . |