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

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1 Does the extension in claimable hours alone account for the increase in the number of night visits ?
2 Could this increase in liver protein synthesis , however , account for the increase in whole body protein synthesis that Powell-Tuck et al reported in their series of patients ?
3 You will have to apply para 41 if you are to equity account for the associate in accordance with standard practice .
4 The raising of the compulsory school-leaving age , first to 15 and then to 16 , and the expansion of further education account for the growth in education .
5 While classical factors were often present , and for brief periods predominated , Keynesian factors were the proximate forces accounting for the rise in unemployment over this period .
6 Since the Royal Commission on Population found that out of a sample of 7,625 pregnancies only 147 resulted in criminal abortions ( equal to 2 per cent of all pregnancies and 17 per cent of all abortions ) , it is unlikely that changes in the abortion rate played a major part in accounting for the decrease in working class fertility .
7 The size of the dish or plate we use affects quantity as well , and this mainly accounts for the variation in quantities of breakfast cereals .
8 The high level of the hormone progesterone during pregnancy accounts for the increase in breast size .
9 It accounts for the way in which goods not merely reflect distinction , but are an instrument of it .
10 SDLP lost a seat here as in Armagh which together accounts for the reduction in their representation by two seats as between the Assembly and the Convention .
11 We believe that it is the failure to map from roles to names that accounts for the difficulty in keeping track of who is doing what to whom in certain complicated texts with many characters — some Russian novels , for example .
12 The children live outside the immediate neighbourhood and this accounts for the difficulty in persuading parents to visit the school although great efforts have been made to improve upon this .
13 What accounts for the difference in adoption of adjustments from place to place and time to time ?
14 There is no significant difference in long term survival between Child 's A and B patients except for a higher mortality in the first two months after surgery in Child 's B ( six of 19 v three of 24 ) ; this largely accounts for the difference in the overall survival between the surgery and sclerotherapy groups .
15 These major transformations can not be mapped onto the model of a continuous history , for its stress on putative anticipations fails to account for the way in which the whole form of knowledge can be transformed and a new understanding created .
16 Given the basic similarity of human sexuality at birth , and the bisexual nature of human beings , Freud sought to account for the way in which men and women are produced in a particular society — namely , middle-class Europe and America in the early twentieth century .
17 The difficulty has been to account for the way in which such features develop , as the sea in most regions is saturated with calcium carbonate , and in some places supersaturated .
18 Such a debate would give right hon. and hon. Members — particularly those whose constituents , like mine in the north-west , are suffering from the loss of their MGN pensions — an opportunity to ask the Opposition to account for the way in which some of their members who were trustees of the MGN fund behaved in a wholly negligent way .
19 The attractiveness of the cultural explanation of religion is that it appears to account for the diversity in religious practices and beliefs without the necessity to get involved in controversy .
20 Okay , so , that 's , they 're the reasons to account for the rise in absolute values of er , trade in all commodities , what about erm , why has the er , trade in manufactures er , increased as a proportion of total trade ?
21 They fail to account for the boom in private enterprise .
22 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 .
23 Even language may not be enough to account for the agreement in a social contract not to do X , when
24 The effect on prostaglandin production might account for the increase in dyspepsia associated with NSAIDs in patients colonised with Helicobacter pylori and could also protect the mucosa from superficial injury induced by NSAIDs .
25 Although there is a slight reduction in the number of cells per well over the culture period this could not account for the reduction in EGF binding seen .
26 The same factor may also account for the variation in amplitudes and frequencies noted by us and by Sunshine .
27 Although reduced feed consumption and diarrhoea affect liveweight gain they do not wholly account for the loss in production .
28 While this may account for part of the gap in the gross weekly earnings of men and women , however , it can not account for the difference in hourly rates of pay .
29 It seems possible , however , that the latter two studies were using substantially lower levels of stress than the former two and this may well account for the difference in results .
30 This , together with improvements in diet and exercise and also in the average man 's or woman 's physical environment throughout the century , may account for the decline in the death-rate which has continued to take place in recent years for those who have already reached middle age ( see Table I.6 ) .
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