Example sentences of "could account for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's being run for the short-term , they reckon , that could account for a lot of its recent pragmatism . |
| 2 | But no amount of tuition could account for a moment of sublime individual flair . |
| 3 | Harry was convinced that he could account for every train he had accepted . |
| 4 | This could account for the frequency with which food colourings have been identified as the source of adverse reactions . |
| 5 | Donald Goodenough , in his scholarly review of the very technical evidence on this issue comparing the recall of dreams by different personality types , comes to the conclusion that while repression may be responsible for the forgetting of some dreams , it is not feasible that it could account for the majority . |
| 6 | If a particular group is disproportionately represented in prison , are there other , independent variables that could account for the correlation ? |
| 7 | Most scientists believe the infill to be lava , and though there are no features yet seen on the Moon that are definitely volcanic , floods of lava from fissures that are buried beneath their own lava are known on the Earth and could account for the mare infill on the Moon . |
| 8 | An enhanced generation of either omega-3 or omega-6 derived prostaglandins possessing cytoprotective properties could account for the protection against acid-induced duodenal lesions in rats fed the polyunsaturated fatty acid diets , though this can not be confirmed with the present data . |
| 9 | Extended over vast periods of time , the same process could account for the production of all the various species of animals and plants . |
| 10 | She questioned him , trying to find out if he had an infection that could account for the temperature . |
| 11 | This could account for the weather sensitivity of some people who show either depression before a storm , or pains in joints and injuries . |
| 12 | As was suggested above , there were , within the internal development of psychoanalysis , new findings which necessitated a new conceptualization which could account for the compulsion to repeat unpleasurable experiences . |
| 13 | A comparatively cool Cytherean interior could account for the difference , though this raises the further question of how the Cytherean interior could be so much cooler than that of the Earth : has the tidal heating of the Earth 's interior by the Moon been important ( section 2.1.16 ) , or is the Cytherean interior depleted in the isotopes which can supply copious amounts of radioactive heat , namely , uranium , thorium and potassium ? |
| 14 | When in 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species , he had no intention of implying that random mutation of genes and natural selection could account for the emergence of life on earth ; but it was inevitable that some of his followers would try to project his hypothesis backwards , and speculate that life might somehow have been generated spontaneously in gaseous , primeval slime . |