Example sentences of "could account [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | War , disease or climatic change could account for such a throwback . |
| 2 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 3 | It left open the question of whose money had paid for the House of Fraser but made clear that nothing in the career of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed could account for such new-found wealth . |
| 4 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |
| 5 | From a consecutive series of 50 referral letters sent by general practitioners in Sunderland to the local department of child psychiatry , 15 items of information were identified that could account for all the information contained in the letters . |
| 6 | What conceivable genetic mechanism could account for this ? |
| 7 | There are clearly a large number of factors which could account for this difference . |
| 8 | They also concluded that genetic factors alone , without environmental interactions , could account for this segregation . |
| 9 | The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending . |
| 10 | The note indicates that the rate of increase is higher than that for restaurant prices in general over this period , and this could account for some of the reduction in business . |
| 11 | Widespread activation of T cells , with selective representation of particular V elements , is also a feature of some inflammatory joint diseases linked with infective agents and of Kawasaki disease , and superantigen effects could account for these associations . |