Example sentences of "may [be] accounted for [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The decline and discontinuance of the use of the surfboard as civilization advances , ’ wrote Hiram Bingham , ‘ may be accounted for by the increase in modesty , industry and religion , without supposing as some have affected to believe , that missionaries have caused oppressive enactments against it . ’ |
| 2 | Some of the difference may be accounted for by the greater number of court sites and judicial officials in proportion to population and area in Sri Lanka than in India . |
| 3 | Although much of its growth may be accounted for by the rapid increase in headhunting in financial services in the mid-1980s , the firm 's capability and success in this market stemmed from its secure reputation established over the preceding decade . |
| 4 | The smaller reduction in the Medical Research Council 's trial may be accounted for by the high rate of drop outs and deviations from the protocol . |
| 5 | If the twenty-year gap in output apparent in the manuscript is real , it may be accounted for by the rise in influence of those hostile to the complex , polyphonic settings of Scottish church music , one of whom named the chapel royal in Stirling as an example . |
| 6 | Freud 's own answer to this question was that , in part , it may be accounted for by the supposition of an ‘ archaic heritage ’ of unconscious memories which go back to primeval times . |
| 7 | Indeed , the reported release of PYY and enteroglucagon by fat in the small bowel may be accounted for by the effects of the bile salts with which the fat was suspended . |