Example sentences of "account for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not many of the men connected with this place can account for every hour of that afternoon , though the women can . |
| 2 | Harry was convinced that he could account for every train he had accepted . |
| 3 | ‘ Then how do you account for a statement by a witness who claims that you passed him in your van , driving in the direction of Penzance , at about 11.45 that night ? ’ |
| 4 | Further , some very salient Liverpool dialect phenomena such as syllable-final aspirated fricatives ( e.g. [ bu ? h ] ‘ bush ’ ) are probably best described not quantitatively , but qualitatively in terms of the articulatory setting peculiar to the dialect , which can account for a number of superficially quite diverse phonetic characteristics . |
| 5 | And similar explanations can account for a lot of the variation found in human societies ( Goody , 1976 ) . |
| 6 | If it 's being run for the short-term , they reckon , that could account for a lot of its recent pragmatism . |
| 7 | I date say a cheap day return from British Rail might account for a lot of it , but the rest is speculation . |
| 8 | But no amount of tuition could account for a moment of sublime individual flair . |
| 9 | Indeed , they can account for the variety and juxtaposition of rocks in a rather more detailed way than the above outline suggests . |
| 10 | A phase of late Hercynian oxidation of Carboniferous humic material may account for the lack of gas prospectiveness in these areas . |
| 11 | Cold climates are said to affect blacks adversely because of their body fat deficiencies , weak ankles would account for the lack of black hockey players , etc . |
| 12 | Some of these factors may also account for the lack of academic analysis of the object , compared with the extent of linguistic research . |
| 13 | If your actual intake is in excess of your estimate , that would account for the plateau effect that you are experiencing . |
| 14 | In Europe police organisation is hierarchical , centralised and supervised by the government , all of which may account for the tendency to rely on police investigations while , at the same time , declining to constrain them by the kind of normative rules we find in Anglo-American law . |
| 15 | Nor can it account for the way that unskilled workers in a northern seaside town could imagine , think and plan how to move into the boarding house business . |
| 16 | The land alone can not account for the size of the region Gloucester came to control ; that derived from royal office and royal backing . |
| 17 | The land alone can not account for the size of the region Gloucester came to control ; that derived from royal office and royal backing . |
| 18 | This , however , is not an adequate explanation because it can not account for the kind of statement made by the apprentice of his appreciation of the grandeur of work that was quoted by Willis ( 1976 ) and repeated earlier in this paper . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And did that account for the cynicism and boredom — this constant interest by women ? |
| 21 | What the cracks were like and how they got there he did not say , but he did show that , if they existed , which was not unreasonable , they would account for the weakness of ordinary glass . |
| 22 | If a particular group is disproportionately represented in prison , are there other , independent variables that could account for the correlation ? |
| 23 | This could account for the frequency with which food colourings have been identified as the source of adverse reactions . |
| 24 | Since the scale was twenty-three miles to an inch , it was possible that a deviation of two or three miles would not be marked , but that could not account for the tarmac . |
| 25 | It might account for the recapture of Aberdeen South and Kincardine and Deeside , for Michael Forsyth 's survival in Stirling , and for the remarkable defence by Phil Gallie , a new candidate , of George Younger 's 182 majority in Ayr . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It lies in sops or bellies , surrounded by hard rocks , which will readily account for its being suddenly lost ; and these sops or bellies , being generally at considerable distances , will equally well account for the difficulty with which it is commonly regained … ’ |
| 28 | Marx , however , realized that the need to make a living could never directly explain what human beings do , nor could it account for the complexity of human history itself . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Even though the individual shopper will often find some functional justification for his or her particular choice , as being especially practical , other reasons , some of which will be analysed in later chapters , may be adduced , relating to social rather than functional considerations which may more convincingly account for the majority of purchases . |