Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] account for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar mechanism may perhaps account for the fact that some group-living animals drive sick or injured individuals out of the group . |
| 2 | The petty cashier must always account for a certain fixed sum of money . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This might then account for the apparently non-environmentally controlled distribution pattern in which other species could insinuate themselves in the holes of the forest ‘ lattice ’ devoid of the first species . |
| 5 | Since the scale was twenty-three miles to an inch , it was possible that a deviation of two or three miles would not be marked , but that could not account for the tarmac . |
| 6 | However , Willie was certain that this could not account for the strange noise , so he continued , only to find the noise started again even louder . |
| 7 | Although the timescale of artificial selection experiments means that new mutations can contribute to the responses , in the above experiments accumulation of partially recessive mutations could not account for the decline in early performance , because the drop persisted in crosses between ‘ old ’ lines . |
| 8 | The knock on the head alone could not account for the glazed look in her eyes . |
| 9 | He knew about Lamarck 's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics , but dismissed this as a secondary process that could not account for the whole range of adaptations ( he must also have been aware of the strong opposition to Lamarckism from Owen and the conservative forces in science ) . |
| 10 | Although there is a slight reduction in the number of cells per well over the culture period this could not account for the reduction in EGF binding seen . |
| 11 | Firstly , if more than one explanation could reasonably account for an apparent effect then sufficient doubt remains . |
| 12 | Newton 's theory could account for falling objects , the operation of siphons and liftpumps and anything else that Aristotle 's theory could explain , and could also account for the phenomena that were problematic for the Aristotelians . |
| 13 | The fact that the numerical models do not incorporate this unique wet Late Permian palaeogeography could well account for the uniformly erroneous results . |
| 14 | A hgh hepatitis C virus circulation ( in Italy the prevalence of blood donors positive for anti-hepatitis C virus ranges from 0.68 to 1.38% ) could well account for the high prevalence of anti-hepatitis C virus in our series of chronic liver disease with unknown aetiology ( 66 of 100 ) : of the 66 anti-hepatitis C virus positive cases , however , only 21 were positive for the autoantibodies currently considered as reliable markers of autoimmune hepatitis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Thus HIV probably causes gastrointestinal dysfunction ; furthermore HIV is the only intestinal pathogen which is frequently found even at stages II or III and could therefore account for the occurrence of gastrointestinal symptoms and mucosal abnormalities at early stages of the disease when other potential causes are rarely detected . |
| 17 | This may partly account for an apparent lack of impetus from the start . |
| 18 | This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life . |
| 19 | Unlike the ECSC , the whole concept had been modelled as a body in which Britain might participate : this may partly account for the diluted supranational element . |
| 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 | It is obscured to some extent by the heavily didactic purpose of Masterman Ready and this may partly account for the fact that young readers have always claimed the adult novel , Mr Midshipman Easy , as their own , even though it must always have made considerable demands on their reading skills and their understanding . |
| 22 | Methodological differences may partly account for the discrepancy between these studies . |
| 23 | This may also account for the small size of halls at West Stow , the uncompacted sand subsoil being incapable of taking the strain of a large building with earth-fast timbers . |
| 24 | Some of these factors may also account for the lack of academic analysis of the object , compared with the extent of linguistic research . |
| 25 | A similar location appears at Catterick and Great Casterton , and may also account for the courtyard structure parallel to Ermine Street at Water Newton . |
| 26 | The same factor may also account for the variation in amplitudes and frequencies noted by us and by Sunshine . |
| 27 | This factor may also account for the repetitive waves in the transposed colon . |
| 28 | This quantitative difference may also account for the beneficial effects seen after surgical interruption of the left stellate ganglion . |
| 29 | This is noticeable when short term goals can be identified and seen to be worth reaching and may well account for the very impressive efforts by schools in agricultural , sports and music competitions . |
| 30 | 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 . |