Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] account for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In what follows my main purposes are : ( 1 ) to demonstrate the patterns of simplification that can be traced by comparing our inner-city data with that of the city-wide random sample ‘ doorstep ’ survey and the outer-city community studies ; and ( 2 ) to consider how far a theory of strong and weak ties can account for the maintenance of complex patterns and the development of simpler ones . |
| 2 | I date say a cheap day return from British Rail might account for a lot of it , but the rest is speculation . |
| 3 | The models must account for the absence of significant maser emission ( ) between the main and shifted features . |
| 4 | This difference may account for the fact that although there is now a great deal of empirical evidence linking monetary or aggregate demand shocks to real output fluctuations — evidence which we shall discuss in later chapters — the evidence that unexpected price changes affect output is much weaker ( see , for example , Fair , 1979 ) |
| 5 | Now we can examine how a cash basis might account for the minibus , more specifically how a government 's cash basis might . |
| 6 | Extended over vast periods of time , the same process could account for the production of all the various species of animals and plants . |
| 7 | ‘ Not many of the men connected with this place can account for every hour of that afternoon , though the women can . |
| 8 | And similar explanations can account for a lot of the variation found in human societies ( Goody , 1976 ) . |
| 9 | TWO problems limit the interpretation of recent experiments supporting Darwin 's suggestion that female choice for ornate males may account for the evolution of long tails in birds . |
| 10 | When in 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species , he had no intention of implying that random mutation of genes and natural selection could account for the emergence of life on earth ; but it was inevitable that some of his followers would try to project his hypothesis backwards , and speculate that life might somehow have been generated spontaneously in gaseous , primeval slime . |
| 11 | An enhanced generation of either omega-3 or omega-6 derived prostaglandins possessing cytoprotective properties could account for the protection against acid-induced duodenal lesions in rats fed the polyunsaturated fatty acid diets , though this can not be confirmed with the present data . |
| 12 | But we do not believe that any bias in the sample would account for the difference between Gooch 's figure of 18 per cent and ours of 3 per cent . |
| 13 | It recognizes that pragmatics is essentially concerned with inference ( Thomason , 1977 ) : given a linguistic form uttered in a context , a pragmatic theory must account for the inference of presuppositions , implicatures , illocutionary force and other pragmatic implications . |
| 14 | Cold climates are said to affect blacks adversely because of their body fat deficiencies , weak ankles would account for the lack of black hockey players , etc . |
| 15 | A comparatively cool Cytherean interior could account for the difference , though this raises the further question of how the Cytherean interior could be so much cooler than that of the Earth : has the tidal heating of the Earth 's interior by the Moon been important ( section 2.1.16 ) , or is the Cytherean interior depleted in the isotopes which can supply copious amounts of radioactive heat , namely , uranium , thorium and potassium ? |
| 16 | A similar metabolic defect in the ileum might account for the occurrence of ‘ pouchitis ’ in UC patients after colectomy . |
| 17 | But no amount of tuition could account for a moment of sublime individual flair . |
| 18 | No purely internal linguistic explanation can account for the fact that the change happened in this way in some dialects and in different ways in others . |
| 19 | The use of a different ( European ) donor pool can account for the difference . |
| 20 | These factors may account for the fact that the blackboard metaphor has not usually been used for anaphor resolvers , whose control structures are very often relatively simple , with different knowledge sources brought to bear in something like a predetermined order . |
| 21 | Different techniques , reference values ( 5 mm Hg over anal basal pressure to define prolonged squeezing ) , and patient selection criteria may account for the discrepancy vis a vis our results . |
| 22 | This hypothesis can account for the fact that on cooling , rapid crystal growth is seen to occur which is inconsistent with the need for long range diffusion if the regularly folding lamellae were forming . |
| 23 | A phase of late Hercynian oxidation of Carboniferous humic material may account for the lack of gas prospectiveness in these areas . |
| 24 | The effect on prostaglandin production might account for the increase in dyspepsia associated with NSAIDs in patients colonised with Helicobacter pylori and could also protect the mucosa from superficial injury induced by NSAIDs . |