Example sentences of "can [be] [vb pp] to account for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Each minister has departmental responsibility and can be called to account for the working of his department before parliament ; if incompetence or maladministration be proved then the minister will be called upon to resign either by the Prime Minister or by the direct action of parliament . |
2 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
3 | Unlike the subject-predicate distinction , the notions of theme and rheme can be used to account for the acceptability ( rather than grammaticality ) of a given sequence in a given context . |
4 | The theory can be used to account for the gas laws described above . |
5 | The fundamental equation ( 12 ) of the kinetic theory can be used to account for the ideal gas equation |