Example sentences of "may [vb infin] account for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investigation team considered that this fault reoccurred and that this may have account for the aircraft making its first approach toward the built-up area of Basle to the east of the airport . |
| 2 | But the r and K lines were cultured at different densities , so that selection on life-history traits other than late fecundity may also have differed between them and may have accounted for the decline in late fertility of the r -line females . |
| 3 | He describes the toy drawer exactly , from the rubber sealing rings out of old tobacco tins , kept to make catapults ( which , with the string and the electric flex , were the principal binding agents in the mass ) , to the leaking paper bag of saltpetre ( which may have accounted for the choking smell ) . |
| 4 | This fantasy may have accounted for the arrogance of Conroy towards Queen Victoria . |
| 5 | Now anything else that may have accounted for the erm , decline of agricultural trade , and the increase in manufacturing trade ? |
| 6 | Wordsworth tells us that he wrote The Prelude in order to give an account of the growth of his mind , which may help to account for the inclusion of some of the stranger incidents . |
| 7 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |