Example sentences of "[noun] could account for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Extended over vast periods of time , the same process could account for the production of all the various species of animals and plants .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 ?
5 But no amount of tuition could account for a moment of sublime individual flair .
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