Example sentences of "could account for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 2 | When in 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species , he had no intention of implying that random mutation of genes and natural selection could account for the emergence of life on earth ; but it was inevitable that some of his followers would try to project his hypothesis backwards , and speculate that life might somehow have been generated spontaneously in gaseous , primeval slime . |
| 3 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 4 | In a recent letter to Nature ( 1991 , 354 , 114 ) three Italian scientists claimed that thixotropy , a property of certain gels to become liquid on the application of some external force , could account for the ‘ congealed blood ’ becoming liquid as the Archbishop agitates the phial . |
| 5 | Since the virus can spread through blood , transfusions could account for the 25 per cent of AIDS victims who are not gay . |
| 6 | He concluded that his theory could account for the hallucinations . |
| 7 | A feature on the noises made by muscles in action had several member of staff listening to their own thunder by covering their ears with their thumbs and tightening their hand into fists The magazine also revived all the explanation that could account for the Loch Ness monster , an overture to the silly season , though there was little evidence that there would be one this year . |
| 8 | Charged solitons moving along the polymer chains could account for the greatly improved conductivity , but , there is a catch that makes their importance questionable . |
| 9 | This could account for the frequency with which food colourings have been identified as the source of adverse reactions . |
| 10 | I talked to members of Wingates Band , who said that there is no set plan — this could account for the apparent chaos — but the idea is to take part in as many of the competitions as possible . |
| 11 | The best clues are almost certainly to be found by studying those aspects of brain function which , if they become deranged , could account for the symptoms of psychotic illness , and currently a considerable amount of research is in progress testing out various possibilities . |
| 12 | If a particular group is disproportionately represented in prison , are there other , independent variables that could account for the correlation ? |
| 13 | He argues that the walls would have reduced in thickness above the platform , and have acted as the stylobate for the columns of the portico and this could account for the comparatively small diameter of the column drum found on the site ( his p. 16 ) . |
| 14 | As was suggested above , there were , within the internal development of psychoanalysis , new findings which necessitated a new conceptualization which could account for the compulsion to repeat unpleasurable experiences . |
| 15 | Donald Goodenough , in his scholarly review of the very technical evidence on this issue comparing the recall of dreams by different personality types , comes to the conclusion that while repression may be responsible for the forgetting of some dreams , it is not feasible that it could account for the majority . |
| 16 | There were no obvious differences between the studies in the way in which they were conducted which could account for the wide range of rates of dream reporting from NREM sleep . |
| 17 | This could account for the weather sensitivity of some people who show either depression before a storm , or pains in joints and injuries . |
| 18 | Extended over vast periods of time , the same process could account for the production of all the various species of animals and plants . |
| 19 | A comparatively cool Cytherean interior could account for the difference , though this raises the further question of how the Cytherean interior could be so much cooler than that of the Earth : has the tidal heating of the Earth 's interior by the Moon been important ( section 2.1.16 ) , or is the Cytherean interior depleted in the isotopes which can supply copious amounts of radioactive heat , namely , uranium , thorium and potassium ? |
| 20 | Most scientists believe the infill to be lava , and though there are no features yet seen on the Moon that are definitely volcanic , floods of lava from fissures that are buried beneath their own lava are known on the Earth and could account for the mare infill on the Moon . |
| 21 | For a massive planet consisting largely of hydrogen and helium there are two main sources of heat for the interior , each of which could account for the excess radiation . |
| 22 | It will not get hot enough to emit X rays , but it could account for the very compact source of radio waves and infrared rays that is observed at the galactic center . |
| 23 | It may be argued that low essential fatty acid intake could account for the diminished long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in severe disease . |
| 24 | An enhanced generation of either omega-3 or omega-6 derived prostaglandins possessing cytoprotective properties could account for the protection against acid-induced duodenal lesions in rats fed the polyunsaturated fatty acid diets , though this can not be confirmed with the present data . |
| 25 | These peripheral pharmacokinetic changes could account for the beneficial motor effects of Ro 40-7592 administered with levodopa . |
| 26 | She questioned him , trying to find out if he had an infection that could account for the temperature . |
| 27 | It would appear unlikely that a difference of two water molecules could account for the large destabilisation observed and it is therefore probable that minor groove hydration is not the singularly most important destabilising effect the sequence currently under investigation . |