Example sentences of "can account for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Income from tourism can account for a sizeable proportion of an area 's total income ; it has been estimated that , in Cornwall in the 1960s , this was equal to the income generated by manufacturing in the county ( Cornwall County Council 1966 ) . |
| 2 | While maintenance may not be a large contributor to running costs , it is still significant and such increases can account for an extra £2–3 per hour . |
| 3 | The researchers suggest that game theory , rather than kin selection , can account for the general absence of fighting over females within a coalition . |
| 4 | Beyond this depth the compression of solid rock such as silicates can account for the increasing wave speeds . |
| 5 | Although the chromatography eluants used in this study are particularly suited to detecting tobacco related carcinogens — and will miss some small molecular weight adducts altogether — it is unlikely that smoking can account for the increased adduct levels found as the percentage of smokers in the truncal vagotomy group ( 54% ) was very similar to that of the highly selective vagotomy patients ( 52% ) . |
| 6 | Compass orientation , we have seen , can account for the seasonal movements of birds and butterflies , which could find their way by just flying in a particular direction . |
| 7 | A superiority in either the perception of shape or in the perception of direction , if in fact these functions are dissociable , can account for the left hand advantage in Braille reading found for both experienced blind subjects ( Hermelin & O'Connor , 1971 ) and blindfolded normal subjects ( Smith , Chu and Edmonston , 1977 ; Harriman and Castell , 1979 ) taught to read Braille . |
| 8 | By adopting a text-based approach he searches for an explicit and comprehensive communicative theory which can account for the psychological effects created by poetic texts . |
| 9 | If the theory survives these tests , it will probably be some years more before we develop computational methods that will enable us to make predictions and before we can account for the initial conditions of the universe as well as the local physical laws . |