Example sentences of "account for the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , ‘ the simultaneous and combined economic and political struggle of European workers … helps account for the more articulated class character of [ their ] labour movements ’ ( Kassalow , 1982 , p. 210 ) directed against a very visible and expanding bourgeoisie and , in part , a response to a more repressive state apparatus ( Geary , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | The latissimus dorsi account for the very impressive ‘ V ’ shape of athletes and bodybuilders . |
| 3 | We restricted our flow cytometric analysis to the determination of DNA ploidy because increased amounts of nuclear fragments after enzymatic digestion reduce the accuracy of cell cycle analysis accounting for the relatively poor correlation between proliferative activity in unfixed compared with paraffin embedded material . |
| 4 | That accounts for the particularly speedy data transfer and seek times you can see in the benchmarks box . |
| 5 | This circulating cold water accounts for the anomalously low mean temperatures of eastern Antarctic Peninsula . |
| 6 | In the nineteenth century the company survived periods of economic difficulty ; important progress was made in the use of new machinery , the introduction of the first coloured earthenware bodies and the manufacture of bone china which now accounts for the most valuable part of the company 's export trade . |
| 7 | The view just proposed accounts for the rather curious fact that there are no passive constructions followed by the to infinitive with the verb watch , as both Fries ( 1964 : 21 ) and Mittwoch ( 1990 : 119 ) have pointed out : ( 75 ) He was seen to cross the street . |
| 8 | It was therefore considered appropriate to assign responses such as these to the ‘ other ’ rather than the ‘ no ’ category and this accounts for the rather unusual statistics . |
| 9 | But the utilitarian function of keeping church walls dry hardly accounts for the occasionally bizarre juxtaposition of the sacred and profane : Christ and the saints among the foully contorted and pagan fertility symbols , the Virgin Mary elbowed by giants ( usually depicted with both hands pulling back fierce lips ) . |
| 10 | This diversity accounts for the mutually contradictory complaints that are frequently voiced by village locals : that the newcomers come in and try to run everything or that they take no part in village life and are not ‘ involved ’ . |
| 11 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
| 12 | They have two openings on each side of the skull which made it more like a scaffolding , and accounts for the unusually high number of archosaur skulls broken into small fragments . |
| 13 | It turns out that there are generally not enough dislocations originally present in most crystals to account for the very extensive slip which can take place in a ductile material . |
| 14 | First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept . |
| 15 | If , as seems likely , this line swings southwestwards at its western end towards the Farmborough Compression Zone , it may account for the otherwise puzzling discrepancy between the E.N.E.-W.S.W. strike of the basement thrust as seen on seismic ( Chadwick et a/. 1983 ) and the E.-W. trend of the Vale of Pewsey . |
| 16 | The fact that the numerical models do not incorporate this unique wet Late Permian palaeogeography could well account for the uniformly erroneous results . |
| 17 | An attentional model can not account for the statistically significant ear-by-stimulus type interaction . |
| 18 | This is noticeable when short term goals can be identified and seen to be worth reaching and may well account for the very impressive efforts by schools in agricultural , sports and music competitions . |
| 19 | Charged solitons moving along the polymer chains could account for the greatly improved conductivity , but , there is a catch that makes their importance questionable . |
| 20 | This may account for the relatively high level of interest being expressed in the issue . |
| 21 | He argues that the walls would have reduced in thickness above the platform , and have acted as the stylobate for the columns of the portico and this could account for the comparatively small diameter of the column drum found on the site ( his p. 16 ) . |