Example sentences of "to account for [adj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gas between the galaxies contains too few baryons to account for all the apparent mass but too many to be consistent with the simplest Big Bang models . |
| 2 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 3 | That 's why people invent gods , even vicious , vengeful ones , to account for all the awful things that happen . ’ |
| 4 | This powerful combination of compliance and belief is enough to account for all the hypnotic phenomenon , he and his colleagues argue . |
| 5 | The idea that women are more conservative than men is manifestly inadequate to account for all the observed facts , at least in the cultures sociolinguists have studied most intensively , and it is rarely advanced nowadays as an explanation of sex differences . |