Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , as Table 5.8 shows , employment in primary industry can still account for 12 per cent of all employment in rural areas , and when all the ancillary trades associated with agriculture are counted in , for example , food processing , machinery , and fertilizer and pesticide production , agriculture may well account for some 10 to 15 per cent of all national employment , although there are no accurate figures for this . |
| 2 | Variable patterns of formaldehyde exposure may well account for this inconsistency in relation to other workers in formaldehyde-based industries . |
| 3 | The petty cashier must always account for a certain fixed sum of money . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , as Table 5.8 shows , employment in primary industry can still account for 12 per cent of all employment in rural areas , and when all the ancillary trades associated with agriculture are counted in , for example , food processing , machinery , and fertilizer and pesticide production , agriculture may well account for some 10 to 15 per cent of all national employment , although there are no accurate figures for this . |
| 5 | Decreased sphincter of oddi function might also account for increased fasting volume . |
| 6 | Finally , as Ehrlichman and Weinberger point out , differences in the distance between subject and experimenter may well account for certain of the inconsistencies in the results reported by different investigators . |
| 7 | With Drummond Matthews , his supervisor , he showed that sea-floor spreading combined with periodic reversals in the direction of the Earth 's magnetic field could neatly account for the striking pattern of magnetism on the flanks of mid-ocean ridges . |
| 8 | Lesbians ' low social profile may partly account for this . |
| 9 | This quantitative difference may also account for the beneficial effects seen after surgical interruption of the left stellate ganglion . |
| 10 | The same factor may also account for the variation in amplitudes and frequencies noted by us and by Sunshine . |
| 11 | This factor may also account for the repetitive waves in the transposed colon . |
| 12 | For all that , I conclude that the postulated underlying rules for development may usefully account for some of the variation in human sexual behaviour and possibly even the variation in marriage laws . |
| 13 | During the course of the day the Bank 's objective will be to provide enough assistance to the money market ( through outright bill operations and the other techniques discussed below ) to relieve the overall expected shortage , but purchases of bills by the Bank at the early rounds of assistance during the course of the day might only account for a small proportion of the overall assistance provided , for four main reasons . |
| 14 | The recurrent memory of that humiliation and agony might well account for his near-hysterical loathing . |
| 15 | A similar mechanism may perhaps account for the fact that some group-living animals drive sick or injured individuals out of the group . |
| 16 | The fact that the numerical models do not incorporate this unique wet Late Permian palaeogeography could well account for the uniformly erroneous results . |
| 17 | Clearly , the Williams-Renault was on the pace even though gearbox trouble would eventually account for both drivers , Patrese 's departure being the more dramatic of the two . |
| 18 | Although it will have overtaken OS/2 's share by this time , Unix will still account for some 32% of servers systems sold by this time , the market research group says . |
| 19 | It might also be maintained that the elasticity of the concept of Satya in Indian philosophical thought may well account for these apparent contradictions . |
| 20 | Incomplete recording may partly account for the low rates of sickness absence among those in the highest grades , but it is unlikely to explain the large differences between other grades . |
| 21 | Hibernation mortality may also account for some considerable part of cave bear mortality in European cave sites ( Kurten , 1958 ) . |
| 22 | This is certainly true , but this explanation might only account for some 4 or 5 per cent or NGU cases . |
| 23 | So while the model could certainly account for conflict , high rates of strikes and evidence of a powerful opposition of interests between employers and workers could not be accommodated . |
| 24 | Firstly , if more than one explanation could reasonably account for an apparent effect then sufficient doubt remains . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that a single explanation can fully account for a human activity that has been defined in such varied ways . |
| 26 | On the one hand , the growing cult of the fact may well account for the modern American cultivation of its opposite , the surreal fiction of Heller , Pynchon and Doctorow ; if realism is captured by sociology , some novelists may take refuge in surrealism . |
| 27 | Variations in receptor sensitivity could also account for variations in both spike amplitude and rates of wave propagation ( M.D. Bootman , personal communication ) . |