Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] account for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such factors as incentives , motivation , perseverance , and the like may account for some of the proportion allocated to education ; and these factors may be partly the effects of education and partly its causes . |
| 2 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |
| 3 | The Bar Council 's equal opportunities programme will account for some 10% of total expenditure this year . |
| 4 | Absenteeism will account for some gaps , and temporary vacancies for inability to state a clerk 's name . |
| 5 | This structural and molecular homology may account for many of the functional similarities that exist between IP 3 Rs and RYRs . |
| 6 | Thus , the no-boundary proposal can account for all the complicated structure that we see around us . |
| 7 | War , disease or climatic change could account for such a throwback . |
| 8 | As the polar headgroups of the lipid bilayer will account for some 6 to 10 of this distance , the overall stalk length , from the base of domain 2 to the cell surface , is likely to be less than 10 . |
| 9 | Doubts were expressed about the authorship of the early ‘ St Jerome in the Wilderness ’ from São Paulo although the poor condition of the surface may account for some of the picture 's awkwardness . |
| 10 | As the severity of Crohn 's disease and linear growth velocity during the first two years of follow up among males and females were comparable , it is possible that varying demands on growth during normal puberty may account for these differences . |
| 11 | What conceivable genetic mechanism could account for this ? |
| 12 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 13 | If all goes to plan , oil should account for some 50% of demand in 1990 and 38% in the year 2000 . |
| 14 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 15 | 5 No subdivision of the X -axis should account for more than half the range of the X -values found in the data . |
| 16 | Therefore neither group 's data can be discounted and any model of the VOR must account for both sets of results . |
| 17 | Solution compaction between grains reduces the effective intergranular porosity within a grainy sediment ( Fig. 5.19b ) and is therefore important in reservoir evaluation ; in some cases solution compaction may account for most of the overall porosity reduction . |