Example sentences of "[modal v] account for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must account for every idle word , never talk with anyone or undertake any trifling employment merely to pass the time of day . |
| 2 | The supplier must account for the related output tax in the return for the period which includes the date of receipt . |
| 3 | The models must account for the absence of significant maser emission ( ) between the main and shifted features . |
| 4 | It recognizes that pragmatics is essentially concerned with inference ( Thomason , 1977 ) : given a linguistic form uttered in a context , a pragmatic theory must account for the inference of presuppositions , implicatures , illocutionary force and other pragmatic implications . |
| 5 | I date say a cheap day return from British Rail might account for a lot of it , but the rest is speculation . |
| 6 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 7 | It might account for the recapture of Aberdeen South and Kincardine and Deeside , for Michael Forsyth 's survival in Stirling , and for the remarkable defence by Phil Gallie , a new candidate , of George Younger 's 182 majority in Ayr . |
| 8 | If the molecules were some part of the chromosomes , this might account for the many nuclear changes which had been observed . |
| 9 | Some toxins have been identified , and one makes the blood vessels more leaky , which might account for the production of urticaria . |
| 10 | The theories that have guided these insights into the mechanisms of psychotic and creative thought do not , of course , specify what it is about the brain that might account for the differences observed in schizophrenic and schizotypal individuals . |
| 11 | It is logical to ask whether attenuation of soft X-rays in such a wind might account for the dividing line . |
| 12 | Care must be taken in interpreting Fig. 3 b because the CTD stations at the eastern end were not worked in the same location ( Fig. 1 ) , and some effect from the different topography might account for the eddy-like structure seen between 15–28°W . |
| 13 | Finally , ethanol is a potent inhibitor of the IP 3 R , which might account for the ataxia associated with ethanol intoxication . |
| 14 | Many new circumstances might account for the new relationship — the movement of married women into the work-force , unprecedented economic security , the decline of religious feeling . |
| 15 | Maybe they even try to swim against it which might account for the length of time that passes before they reach European waters . |
| 16 | Now we can examine how a cash basis might account for the minibus , more specifically how a government 's cash basis might . |
| 17 | Poor typing skills might account for the jumping capitals but the shift of the machine could be at fault . |
| 18 | Using existing data sets , it will make initial estimates of the scale of any effect which low incomes might have on the health if the elderly in Britain , and go on to assess the likely role of some intervening variables which might account for the close correlation between income distribution and longevity in developed countries . |
| 19 | We saw earlier that such a relationship of passive dependency on a parental power perceived as essentially paternal might account for the undoubted paranoid elements which emerge along with the megalomania of the divine monarchs — itself the paranoid equivalent of depressive mania . |
| 20 | Although it may not be possible to achieve therapeutic effects in the colon with this formulation , small bowel luminal concentrationmay be higher , and might account for the reports of possible benefit in small numbers of patients with coeliac and Crohn 's disease . |
| 21 | The effect on prostaglandin production might account for the increase in dyspepsia associated with NSAIDs in patients colonised with Helicobacter pylori and could also protect the mucosa from superficial injury induced by NSAIDs . |
| 22 | A similar metabolic defect in the ileum might account for the occurrence of ‘ pouchitis ’ in UC patients after colectomy . |
| 23 | But no amount of tuition could account for a moment of sublime individual flair . |
| 24 | If it 's being run for the short-term , they reckon , that could account for a lot of its recent pragmatism . |
| 25 | One thing which could account for a greater distinctiveness in memory of risky situations would be the idea that risky situations constitute a small number of rather unusual items among a large number of more similar ones . |
| 26 | Harry was convinced that he could account for every train he had accepted . |
| 27 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 30 | In a recent letter to Nature ( 1991 , 354 , 114 ) three Italian scientists claimed that thixotropy , a property of certain gels to become liquid on the application of some external force , could account for the ‘ congealed blood ’ becoming liquid as the Archbishop agitates the phial . |