Example sentences of "to account for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time of Copernicus , in the fifteenth century , the interaction of 77 mathematical circles , forming cycloids and ellipses as necessary , was required to account for the apparent motion of the Sun , Moon and five planets about the Earth . |
| 2 | Welch implies that to account for the apparent increases in zooplankton biomass over the past 30 years in the North Pacific without a marked concomitant increase in phytoplankton biomass ( as reflected by chlorophyll ) , phytoplankton productivity must have increased . |
| 3 | By abandoning any logic of progress for the negative synthesis of anti-labour which produces deviation , Sartre is , on the other hand , able to account for the major detour that provides the context for his whole debate with Merleau-Ponty , and indeed for all post-war Marxism : the spectre of Stalinism . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Even taking an ethologist 's view that young men are fighting animals who need to work off aggression harmlessly in play — a sweeping and contentious assumption — we st ill have to account for the specific form of football hooliganism since the 1960s . |
| 6 | The labour process , it is argued , can not be seen merely as an economic process attendant upon capitalist rationality and imposed on the workforce ; it is embedded in social and cultural practices , and without an understanding of this apparatus , particularly the meanings attached to work , it is difficult to account for the specific form of change , for the relationships between ‘ work ’ and ‘ leisure ’ , and for the significance of skill and social relations at the point of production . |
| 7 | ( Age and sex were included to account for the changing age and sex structures of the populations between the censuses . ) |
| 8 | An increased freedom in life-style might be supposed to account for the increased variability in timing of daily rhythms that is found in the elderly . |
| 9 | This excess was not significant and was insufficient to account for the increased rates of leukaemia in the area . |
| 10 | He will not normally seek to account for the mental processes involved in any language-user 's production of those sentences , nor to describe the physical or social contexts in which those sentences occur . |
| 11 | In short , the government is being called to account for the economic disaster that is present-day Nicaragua . |
| 12 | In short , the government is being called to account for the economic disaster that is present-day Nicaragua . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The role of political pressures such as these as a major influence upon the development of employers ' associations has been emphasised by Adams ( 1981 ) , who puts forward a theory to account for the broad differences between Western Europe and the USA both in the extent of organisation among employers themselves and in their behaviour towards trade unions . |
| 15 | It was unable to account for the details of the orbit of the planet Mercury and was unable to account for the variable mass of fast-moving electrons in discharge tubes . |
| 16 | A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 18 | For an atom with many electrons , we can still use the one-electron atom wave-functions as approximate descriptions of the behavior of the electrons , though we should modify the functions to account for the mutual repulsion of the electrons . |
| 19 | But it 's clear that it 's hardly plausible to account for the current indie mire in those terms , as a problem of indulgence , pretentiousness , over-inflated ambition and gross-out . |
| 20 | Furthermore , with carbonic anhydrase blocked there is not enough HCO production in the cell to provide one HCO per unitary charge of the observed uptake current , whereas dissociation of water could provide enough OH - to account for the current ( Fig. 3 legend ) . |
| 21 | The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | But there is no independent evidence for this , and even if the albedo in the past was zero , any change would probably be unable to account for the present excess radiation . |
| 25 | The atmosphere thus acts as a ‘ bottleneck ’ , and could have retained sufficient heat of formation for it to account for the present excess radiation . |
| 26 | The view of to proposed here allows one , furthermore , to account for the two major uses of the to infinitive . |
| 27 | A number of mechanisms have been implicated to account for the adverse effect of thiazide diuretics on lipid metabolism , which include reduced lipoprotein lipase activity secondary to the decrease in insulin action ( Grimm et al , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | The Tunguska explosion may have lofted enough material high enough to account for the European ‘ light nights ’ . |
| 29 | However , there were no other factors in our patient to account for the acute haemolytic episode , and ascorbic acid induced haemolysis in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency has been reported . |
| 30 | Even so , using multivariate analysis to adjust for many of these , including cigarette smoking , sex , duration of diabetes , hypertension and obesity , the Framingham investigators concluded that all these are insufficient to account for the excess incidence of coronary heart disease , particularly in female diabetics ( Garcia et al , 1974 ) . |