Example sentences of "can [adv] be accounted for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 2 | Some mistakes were due to genuine misunderstanding or fatigue ; others I am afraid can only be accounted for by criminal stupidity or irresponsibility . |
| 3 | Given that all cells with unstable chromosomal damage die on cell division , the increase can only be accounted for by reversion of CD45R0-positive lymphocytes to CD45RA-positive phenotype . |
| 4 | Preteceille and Terrail ( 1985 ) provide a recent elaboration of this position , taking into account the various approaches emerging from cultural anthropology , but they retain the classic Marxist conception that modern ‘ needs ’ can only be accounted for in terms of the search by capital for greater profits , and that consumption is always subservient to production interests ( e.g. 1985 : 37–81 ) . |
| 5 | The strange fact that the 1693 playbook leaves out the whole of the first 1692 scene ( the scene with the Duke , Egeus and the Lovers ) can only be accounted for , I believe , as a printing-house convenience , since it makes room for the inclusion at the end of Act I of the new episode of the Drunken Poets . |
| 6 | The similarity between signs can thus be accounted for by historical links , borrowing of signs through contact between signers , or cultural universal propensities to label concepts in particular ways . |
| 7 | The differences between chimpanzees and us can not be accounted for by differences in these proteins . |
| 8 | Between 1952 and 1976 , more than two million urban jobs were lost that can not be accounted for in terms of national trends influencing unfavourable urban structures ( Danson , Lever and Malcolm , 1980 ) . |
| 9 | Other sorts of seemingly intelligent behavioural variability , though , can not be accounted for either by ‘ noise ’ in the computer or by habituation . |
| 10 | A strategy for handling toxic wastes is beginning to emerge , because of EEC directives , but a quarter of the wastes produced by the Republic can not be accounted for . |
| 11 | He says : ‘ Tinnitus ( Latin for ringing ) is the name given to the subjective ( heard only by the person concerned ) experience of hearing sounds in the ear or head which have no basis of reality in the environment , that is to say , the sound can not be accounted for by vibrations coming from objects external to the patient . ’ |
| 12 | Goyigamas were substantially over-represented , a fact which can not be accounted for entirely by their agricultural pursuits . |
| 13 | But it is equally clear that its nature can not be accounted for by demonstrating its rules by a random use of any lexical items that come to mind . |
| 14 | Attention is drawn to the statement in TR794 that ‘ the tax consequences of pensions can not be accounted for in isolation from potential deferred tax effects from other sources ' , as , for example , ‘ deferred tax arising from sources other than pensions may enhance the prospective recoverability of tax arising in respect of pension payments ’ . |
| 15 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 16 | This subject can not be accounted for completely within psychology , so psychology tries to exclude it ; but it keeps intruding in it ( Bem 1983 , Gilligan 1982 , 1986 ) . |
| 17 | He suggests that to attribute extra suffering to one particular factor — age , length of unemployment , marital status , etc. — is too crude , as is the emphasis on individual responsibility ; the gross disparities between the numbers of jobs and the numbers of those seeking jobs can not be accounted for in terms of the individual psychological characteristics of the latter , nor can the rapid changes in the former . |
| 18 | Although difficult to measure , these differences can not be accounted for simply by their accompanying economic differences . |
| 19 | We have seen how our feeling that a particular stretch of language in some way hangs together , or has unity , ( that it is , in other words , discourse ) , can not be accounted for in the same way as our feeling for the acceptability of a sentence . |
| 20 | Does it indicate that the meaning of an idiom can not be inferred from ( or , more precisely , can not be accounted for as a compositional function of ) the meanings the parts carry IN THAT EXPRESSION ? |
| 21 | The definition must be understood as stating that an idiom is an expression whose meaning can not be accounted for as a compositional function of the meanings its parts have when they are not parts of idioms . |
| 22 | Since the Unemployed Flow Survey reported no significant difference between men and women in this respect , the variation in the results obtained from the Cohort Study can not be accounted for by its concentration on men . |
| 23 | The above average rates of leukaemia in the study area can not be accounted for by these findings . |
| 24 | Moreover , they can not be accounted for merely by reference to spatial differences in social composition . |
| 25 | Despite Government counter-claims that this increase is due to 1986 changes in definitions of accidents from minor to major and fatal categories , all the increases can not be accounted for by the redefinition . |
| 26 | As Box reminds us , and as we discussed in Chapter Five , the arrest rate is higher for young blacks ( Stevens and Willis 1979 ) and these can not be accounted for entirely by differences in criminal activity . |
| 27 | Some constructs may reflect pre-verbal bases of organization which can not be accounted for by rational explanation . |
| 28 | The significant difference at 45 and 360 minutes postprandially between the results in the normal and these two morbidly obese subjects can not be accounted for by a difference in the urine output ( one way ANOVA , p>0.05 ) . |
| 29 | Changes in output which can not be accounted for by changes in the input of capital and labour are assumed to be accounted for by autonomous shocks in technology . |
| 30 | But there are other problems : for there re aspects of sentence-meaning which , at least on truth-conditional r other narrow semantic theories , can not be accounted for within semantic theory . |