Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] accounted for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That belief must have accounted for the number of those wanting to see him and the fevered state of his waiting-room . |
| 2 | Galleries had to be cleared 36 times , which must have accounted for some 35 minutes delay . |
| 3 | Yet for all his own pleasure at tracing this evidence , Dixon could see little in his report which might have accounted for the look of extraordinary triumph he had seen on Morse 's face when he reported in at 2.45 p.m . |
| 4 | A criticism of these data was that the groups were not comparable and that this difference could have accounted for the results rather than the effects of therapy . |
| 5 | For children born in the late 1950s and early 1960s this could have accounted for perhaps 5% of cases ; as Gardner et al showed it does not explain the increased incidence in Seascale . |
| 6 | Nor must one forget the imperial estates , which could have accounted for as much as fifteen per cent of the 1and , ii for which there is evidence in Britain . |
| 7 | However , the numbers were small and examination of the data showed that several of the Blacks were arrested on one day ( during riots ) and at least one was charged with robbery , probably with adults ; this one incident could have accounted for the larger percentage of Blacks going to the Crown Court . |
| 8 | But the r and K lines were cultured at different densities , so that selection on life-history traits other than late fecundity may also have differed between them and may have accounted for the decline in late fertility of the r -line females . |
| 9 | He describes the toy drawer exactly , from the rubber sealing rings out of old tobacco tins , kept to make catapults ( which , with the string and the electric flex , were the principal binding agents in the mass ) , to the leaking paper bag of saltpetre ( which may have accounted for the choking smell ) . |
| 10 | This fantasy may have accounted for the arrogance of Conroy towards Queen Victoria . |
| 11 | Okay , so what acc what may have accounted for agriculture 's decline in relative terms in world trade ? |
| 12 | Now anything else that may have accounted for the erm , decline of agricultural trade , and the increase in manufacturing trade ? |