Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] account for [det] " in BNC.

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1 But sadly , the general quality of fishkeeping books is not good , I feel , which may account for some of the specific problems we encounter .
2 In a detailed and thorough analysis of possible factors which might account for this difference , J. Walker et al.
3 There are clearly a large number of factors which could account for this difference .
4 In pursuit of this goal , the grammarian will concentrate on a particular body of data and attempt to produce an exhaustive but economical set of rules which will account for all and only the acceptable sentences in his data .
5 We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them .
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