Example sentences of "[vb pp] to account for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Lewis 's theory of convention is then applied to account for the acquisition of conventional meaning by certain action ( or utterance ) types in the developing linguistic life of the group .
2 Such a mechanism is thought to account for the entry of calcium into lacrimal or mast cells following cell perfusion with InsP 3 .
3 Computationally realised models of word form realisation for these languages will be constructed in order to get some insight into the precise nature of the formal mechanisms needed to account for the range of possibilities that languages display in this area .
4 An additional variable is needed to account for the variation between the firms in the extent to which clients ' chosen outcomes were retained or transformed .
5 Most industry regulators would regard it as fundamental that a member may be called to account for the conduct of its registered traders .
6 Each minister has departmental responsibility and can be called to account for the working of his department before parliament ; if incompetence or maladministration be proved then the minister will be called upon to resign either by the Prime Minister or by the direct action of parliament .
7 Conversely , many headquarters staff saw those in the field as too narrowly concerned with the running of their own prison establishments , and resistant to any suggestion that they should be called to account for the extent to which they implemented nationally agreed policies .
8 To model such processes and to discriminate between the various mechanisms that are invoked to account for the genesis of the deposits requires a reliable estimate of the age of mineralisation .
9 Here psychological traits are invoked to account for the inability of psychological traits to alter the progress of history , a confusion of which Plekhanov seems unaware .
10 Because the N-linked oligosaccharides synthesised in the presence of DNJ contain maximally four sugar residues more than those synthesised in the presence of DMJ , most of the 13 potential N-glycosylation sites on the Β 1 protein have to be glycosylated to account for the difference in molecular weight between the β 1 chains in DMJ and DNJ treated cells .
11 As independent chain mobility can not be discounted for these longer chains after the onset of entanglement , a modified model is required to account for the ability of long chains to translate and diffuse through the polymer matrix , i.e. the entanglement network must be considered as being transient .
  Next page