Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] account for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Control of this kind may account for the observed differences between transcript concentrations of complex I and complex III genes . |
| 2 | England 's disappointment may account for a sour note in the Daily Telegraph . |
| 3 | It is logical to ask whether attenuation of soft X-rays in such a wind might account for the dividing line . |
| 4 | But researchers have re-assessed data from both urban and rural sites around the world and concluded that the heat island effect can account for no more than 10 per cent of the measured temperature rise . |
| 5 | I date say a cheap day return from British Rail might account for a lot of it , but the rest is speculation . |
| 6 | The cost of design work may account for a significant proportion of the capital cost of a project . |
| 7 | This hypergastrinaemia may account for the increased acid secretion seen in some duodenal ulcer patients and may be one mechanism whereby H pylori contributes to the ulcer diathesis . |
| 8 | Care must be taken in interpreting Fig. 3 b because the CTD stations at the eastern end were not worked in the same location ( Fig. 1 ) , and some effect from the different topography might account for the eddy-like structure seen between 15–28°W . |
| 9 | Interest earned on the proceeds of last year 's £572m rights issue will account for a sizeable slice . |
| 10 | This difference may account for the fact that although there is now a great deal of empirical evidence linking monetary or aggregate demand shocks to real output fluctuations — evidence which we shall discuss in later chapters — the evidence that unexpected price changes affect output is much weaker ( see , for example , Fair , 1979 ) |
| 11 | Now we can examine how a cash basis might account for the minibus , more specifically how a government 's cash basis might . |
| 12 | Extended over vast periods of time , the same process could account for the production of all the various species of animals and plants . |
| 13 | ‘ Not many of the men connected with this place can account for every hour of that afternoon , though the women can . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There are some who say the vision occurred at Halling and one sceptic says the wind whistling through the palace in its Ninous condition combined with his fever would account for the voices . |
| 16 | But we do not believe that any bias in the sample would account for the difference between Gooch 's figure of 18 per cent and ours of 3 per cent . |
| 17 | This contact would account for the observed cooperativity of binding of multiple repressors to extended tandem repeats of met box sequences in natural operators . |
| 18 | Income from tourism can account for a sizeable proportion of an area 's total income ; it has been estimated that , in Cornwall in the 1960s , this was equal to the income generated by manufacturing in the county ( Cornwall County Council 1966 ) . |
| 19 | It recognizes that pragmatics is essentially concerned with inference ( Thomason , 1977 ) : given a linguistic form uttered in a context , a pragmatic theory must account for the inference of presuppositions , implicatures , illocutionary force and other pragmatic implications . |
| 20 | It may be argued that low essential fatty acid intake could account for the diminished long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in severe disease . |
| 21 | He concluded that his theory could account for the hallucinations . |
| 22 | Similarly , tubular obstruction secondary to renal parenchymal disorganisation may account for the higher prevalence in patients with renal and urinary tract disease . |
| 23 | The supplier must account for the related output tax in the return for the period which includes the date of receipt . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | The Soviet Union used to account for a substantial slice of the factory 's exports . |
| 26 | A similar metabolic defect in the ileum might account for the occurrence of ‘ pouchitis ’ in UC patients after colectomy . |
| 27 | But no amount of tuition could account for a moment of sublime individual flair . |
| 28 | No purely internal linguistic explanation can account for the fact that the change happened in this way in some dialects and in different ways in others . |
| 29 | The use of a different ( European ) donor pool can account for the difference . |
| 30 | Although the chromatography eluants used in this study are particularly suited to detecting tobacco related carcinogens — and will miss some small molecular weight adducts altogether — it is unlikely that smoking can account for the increased adduct levels found as the percentage of smokers in the truncal vagotomy group ( 54% ) was very similar to that of the highly selective vagotomy patients ( 52% ) . |