Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] [be] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be accounted for by recalling that the Survey 's function is to prepare and maintain the geological map of the United Kingdom ( including offshore areas ) . |
| 2 | In addition , this article addresses the problematic notion of character " development " and argues that this may be accounted for in terms of a change in the conversational strategies used by a character , from which changes in attitude are inferable . |
| 3 | This could be accounted for by an initial Hercynian episode of stripping of Carboniferous overburden . |
| 4 | While it was obviously impossible to claim that literary art still sprang from the general community , this could be accounted for by the gulf between literature and life caused by the processes of industrialization . |
| 5 | Depressingly , there was no evidence that this happened much in language work at University level , even in in-service and BEd work ( though this could be accounted for by the pressure of time on PGCEs , and the tendency to teach general research methods at Masters and Diploma levels ) . |
| 6 | All this could be accounted for by the fact that Picasso was working on a very large scale and found it necessary to simplify his technique and adopt a bolder approach . |
| 7 | If two of you regurgitate the notes perfectly generally in line with answering the question but then one of you brings in only a few sentences saying , well this could be accounted for with di dum di dum or , if we think about learning and er behaviourism , this has something to say about that . |
| 8 | The average labour input for a part-time farm was 1,752 hours , or 0.75 of a man-year : some of this would be accounted for by contract work carried out by the machinery group . |
| 9 | Of those which are more than mundane , or artefacts of administrative or file-keeping practices , some can be accounted for in terms of plausible expectations of the organizational models , others only indirectly so , and yet others more difficult to explain . |
| 10 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 11 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 12 | Furthermore , in whole body calorimetry studies when total H 2 and CH 4 excretion were measured in healthy subjects eating test meals of various fermentable carbohydrates , the amount of excreted H 2 that could be accounted for was much less in non-methanogenic subjects . |
| 13 | If there are effects on the revenue account , these will be accounted for when the revenue finance is required . |
| 14 | This means that only four notes in each octave are wanted instead of the normal seven , yet all seven must be accounted for to make the glissando possible . |