Example sentences of "may [adv] account for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar mechanism may perhaps account for the fact that some group-living animals drive sick or injured individuals out of the group . |
| 2 | This may partly account for an apparent lack of impetus from the start . |
| 3 | This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life . |
| 4 | Unlike the ECSC , the whole concept had been modelled as a body in which Britain might participate : this may partly account for the diluted supranational element . |
| 5 | Incomplete recording may partly account for the low rates of sickness absence among those in the highest grades , but it is unlikely to explain the large differences between other grades . |
| 6 | It is obscured to some extent by the heavily didactic purpose of Masterman Ready and this may partly account for the fact that young readers have always claimed the adult novel , Mr Midshipman Easy , as their own , even though it must always have made considerable demands on their reading skills and their understanding . |
| 7 | Methodological differences may partly account for the discrepancy between these studies . |
| 8 | This may also account for the small size of halls at West Stow , the uncompacted sand subsoil being incapable of taking the strain of a large building with earth-fast timbers . |
| 9 | Some of these factors may also account for the lack of academic analysis of the object , compared with the extent of linguistic research . |
| 10 | A similar location appears at Catterick and Great Casterton , and may also account for the courtyard structure parallel to Ermine Street at Water Newton . |
| 11 | The same factor may also account for the variation in amplitudes and frequencies noted by us and by Sunshine . |
| 12 | This factor may also account for the repetitive waves in the transposed colon . |
| 13 | This quantitative difference may also account for the beneficial effects seen after surgical interruption of the left stellate ganglion . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On the one hand , the growing cult of the fact may well account for the modern American cultivation of its opposite , the surreal fiction of Heller , Pynchon and Doctorow ; if realism is captured by sociology , some novelists may take refuge in surrealism . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We should not too readily assume that this is a product of guilty conscience , as a result of deliberate rejection of responsibility , although that may sometimes account for the pressure brought on formal carers to find a solution more comfortable to the complainant . |