Example sentences of "[vb mod] account for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must account for every idle word , never talk with anyone or undertake any trifling employment merely to pass the time of day . |
| 2 | The supplier must account for the related output tax in the return for the period which includes the date of receipt . |
| 3 | If the molecules were some part of the chromosomes , this might account for the many nuclear changes which had been observed . |
| 4 | Many new circumstances might account for the new relationship — the movement of married women into the work-force , unprecedented economic security , the decline of religious feeling . |
| 5 | Using existing data sets , it will make initial estimates of the scale of any effect which low incomes might have on the health if the elderly in Britain , and go on to assess the likely role of some intervening variables which might account for the close correlation between income distribution and longevity in developed countries . |
| 6 | Poor typing skills might account for the jumping capitals but the shift of the machine could be at fault . |
| 7 | We saw earlier that such a relationship of passive dependency on a parental power perceived as essentially paternal might account for the undoubted paranoid elements which emerge along with the megalomania of the divine monarchs — itself the paranoid equivalent of depressive mania . |
| 8 | It is logical to ask whether attenuation of soft X-rays in such a wind might account for the dividing line . |
| 9 | Care must be taken in interpreting Fig. 3 b because the CTD stations at the eastern end were not worked in the same location ( Fig. 1 ) , and some effect from the different topography might account for the eddy-like structure seen between 15–28°W . |
| 10 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 11 | One thing which could account for a greater distinctiveness in memory of risky situations would be the idea that risky situations constitute a small number of rather unusual items among a large number of more similar ones . |
| 12 | For a massive planet consisting largely of hydrogen and helium there are two main sources of heat for the interior , each of which could account for the excess radiation . |
| 13 | These peripheral pharmacokinetic changes could account for the beneficial motor effects of Ro 40-7592 administered with levodopa . |
| 14 | I talked to members of Wingates Band , who said that there is no set plan — this could account for the apparent chaos — but the idea is to take part in as many of the competitions as possible . |
| 15 | There were no obvious differences between the studies in the way in which they were conducted which could account for the wide range of rates of dream reporting from NREM sleep . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 18 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 19 | It may be argued that low essential fatty acid intake could account for the diminished long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in severe disease . |
| 20 | It would appear unlikely that a difference of two water molecules could account for the large destabilisation observed and it is therefore probable that minor groove hydration is not the singularly most important destabilising effect the sequence currently under investigation . |
| 21 | Since the virus can spread through blood , transfusions could account for the 25 per cent of AIDS victims who are not gay . |
| 22 | The Soviet Union used to account for a substantial slice of the factory 's exports . |
| 23 | Two hypotheses are worth mentioning , either of which would account for a significant number of cases . |
| 24 | This would account for the singular lack of internal buildings , even though a civilian element may have remained among the population as the sharp distinction between fort and town became increasingly blurred in the fourth century . |
| 25 | That would account for the eight per cent swing from Labour to the Conservatives , which boosted Alan Stewart 's majority in Eastwood to over 11,000 . |
| 26 | This would account for the agricultural implements , which include a plough-tip , the other tools being used by carpenters and gardeners . |
| 27 | It would account for the strong resemblance . |
| 28 | In some cases , the symptoms may have been psychosomatic in origin , which would account for the good effect of the placebo . |
| 29 | This contact would account for the observed cooperativity of binding of multiple repressors to extended tandem repeats of met box sequences in natural operators . |
| 30 | 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 . |