Example sentences of "[adv] account for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Brailsford had noted some years earlier : ‘ The decline of our trade with Germany , Russia and Austria would alone account for the whole volume of our present unemployment . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this first category we consider three main criticisms : ( a ) that the model developed in chapter 4 can not account for a major feature of all economies ; ( b ) that the model relies for all its results on very simple specifications of the aggregate supply and demand curves ; and ( c ) that even if one accepts the model as it stands governments might effectively stabilize the economy if they possess better information about the economy than the private sector , or indeed if different parts of the private sector possess different information . |
| 4 | However , this explanation does not account for the second peak . |
| 5 | The knock on the head alone could not account for the glazed look in her eyes . |
| 6 | Culture conflict between the British and Sri Lankans over the boundaries of crime , concepts of status and appropriate punishments was real , but it did not account for the general approach to the courts discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Environmental health experts say that increased reporting can not account for the total increase . |
| 9 | Moreover , his proposal can not account for the close relationship between pairs of sentences such as : |
| 10 | Some of Althusser 's critics have pointed out that this monolithic conception of the role of ideology can not account for the vast variety of ‘ ideological universes ’ found in modern capitalist states , some conformist and others overtly subversive . |
| 11 | Because the revenue account is determined by matters of finance , it does not account for the annual cost of running the authority . |
| 12 | This supposition is , I believe , based on an impoverished concept of the nature of grammar , one which does not account for the complementary functioning of lexis and syntax as an essential resource for the negotiation of meaning in context . |
| 13 | But this alone does not account for the remarkable frequency of the in the extract ( fifty-one instances , ( 42 ) , because even on their first mention , features of the scene are generally introduced by the . |
| 14 | This takes us back to explanations similar to those suggested for the variation in group size early in these studies ( Crook and Gartlan 1966 ) but these do not account for the massive gregariousness of the species under optimum conditions when a more even dispersion of the population would reduce the costs of foraging . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Second , steady loss , albeit at differing rates from the two populations , did not account for the observed pattern . |
| 17 | Firstly , if more than one explanation could reasonably account for an apparent effect then sufficient doubt remains . |
| 18 | It seems that the catalogue 's limited subject access could well have reinforced the user 's apparent preference for known-item searching and consequently may also partly account for the apparent increase in known-item searching as the user 's educational level rises . |
| 19 | This may partly account for an apparent lack of impetus from the start . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It would also account for the immediate breach between Rufus and Matilda 's father , King Malcolm . |
| 22 | The diagram corresponding to ( 36 ) is therefore : With the above analysis we can now account for the paradoxical fact that the verb perceive is found more frequently with the to infinitive than with the bare version : ( 55 ) No one could possibly enter his rooms without perceiving him to be a man of wealth . |
| 23 | It also does n't account for the shattering effect of the great climaxes , nor the invigorating range and quickness of Birtwistle 's motivic thought . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | How can we then account for the high occurrence of subject searches on online catalogues ? |
| 26 | It is unlikely that a single explanation can fully account for a human activity that has been defined in such varied ways . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | However , most of the literature does not satisfactorily account for the simultaneous determination of wages and membership while allowing for the interaction between the free rider problem and workers ' tastes . |