Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] account for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar mechanism may perhaps account for the fact that some group-living animals drive sick or injured individuals out of the group . |
| 2 | Thus HIV probably causes gastrointestinal dysfunction ; furthermore HIV is the only intestinal pathogen which is frequently found even at stages II or III and could therefore account for the occurrence of gastrointestinal symptoms and mucosal abnormalities at early stages of the disease when other potential causes are rarely detected . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life . |
| 5 | Methodological differences may partly account for the discrepancy between these studies . |
| 6 | The same factor may also account for the variation in amplitudes and frequencies noted by us and by Sunshine . |
| 7 | A similar location appears at Catterick and Great Casterton , and may also account for the courtyard structure parallel to Ermine Street at Water Newton . |
| 8 | Some of these factors may also account for the lack of academic analysis of the object , compared with the extent of linguistic research . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Transformational generative grammars would also account for the structure of example ( 2 ) in terms of a movement transformation called ‘ topicalisation ’ . |
| 11 | But this would also account for the fact that within this system many singers — Marie Lloyd , for instance — retained performing styles heavily influenced by oral traditions ; they often did not read music — as , notoriously , the accompanying orchestras had to remember . |
| 12 | This reference of Elijah would have been fully understood by Jewish readers and would also account for the crowd response at the end of the story : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If we argue , nevertheless , that prestige models can still account for the trend to simplification and uniformity that we have revealed , we have to explain in this case why simplification should carry prestige . |