Example sentences of "[det] may [adv] account for the " in BNC.

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1 We should not too readily assume that this is a product of guilty conscience , as a result of deliberate rejection of responsibility , although that may sometimes account for the pressure brought on formal carers to find a solution more comfortable to the complainant .
2 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 .
3 This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life .
4 Unlike the ECSC , the whole concept had been modelled as a body in which Britain might participate : this may partly account for the diluted supranational element .
5 It is obscured to some extent by the heavily didactic purpose of Masterman Ready and this may partly account for the fact that young readers have always claimed the adult novel , Mr Midshipman Easy , as their own , even though it must always have made considerable demands on their reading skills and their understanding .
6 It seems possible , however , that the latter two studies were using substantially lower levels of stress than the former two and this may well account for the difference in results .
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