Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] account for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had less structure as in T three which is a ternary branching tree , instead of binary branching be just an N P B N P , it 's real hard to see how you can account for the data . |
| 2 | We must account for every idle word , never talk with anyone or undertake any trifling employment merely to pass the time of day . |
| 3 | This is the only way that we can account for the career of King Vidor . |
| 4 | If the theory survives these tests , it will probably be some years more before we develop computational methods that will enable us to make predictions and before we can account for the initial conditions of the universe as well as the local physical laws . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The results over two to three years will include those for children who missed out two terms and who were tested before the age of seven — they will account for a large percentage of the results . |
| 7 | Indeed , they can account for the variety and juxtaposition of rocks in a rather more detailed way than the above outline suggests . |
| 8 | If , as seems likely , this line swings southwestwards at its western end towards the Farmborough Compression Zone , it may account for the otherwise puzzling discrepancy between the E.N.E.-W.S.W. strike of the basement thrust as seen on seismic ( Chadwick et a/. 1983 ) and the E.-W. trend of the Vale of Pewsey . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It will not get hot enough to emit X rays , but it could account for the very compact source of radio waves and infrared rays that is observed at the galactic center . |
| 12 | Harry was convinced that he could account for every train he had accepted . |
| 13 | One suggestion is that the folding maintains the appropriate kinetic unit of the chain at any given temperature ; as this would be expected to lengthen with increasing temperature , it would account for the observed thickening of the lamellae . |
| 14 | It would account for the strong resemblance . |