Example sentences of "can [be] accounted for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | How much of eighteenth century poetry can be accounted for by this term is arguable , yet the idea is certainly useful with respect to Mary Leapor . |
| 3 | Furthermore , even when examining recorded crimes only , changes in the figures may be accounted for by reasons other than the fact that the actual number of offences have changed , and there are a variety of other ways in which an increase in recorded crime can be accounted for . |
| 4 | Current high levels of unemployment can be accounted for without recourse to an explanation from technology ; consumer appetite for yet more goods and services still appears to be insatiable ; and even those economists who advance reasons why new technology might cause unemployment at some point in the future acknowledge that just at present the likelihood is that it will cause labour shortages rather than an overall labour surplus . |
| 5 | And the same change throughout the industry can be accounted for by the functional fact that only those firms which made this change would have survived the competition . |
| 6 | Much of what has been considered to be poststructuralism 's wild disregard for history can be accounted for by the fact that it was operating within this — largely unknown outside France — anti-empiricist and anti-positivist tradition . |
| 7 | The content of the act and its successful passage can be accounted for only by the sustained and effective political activity of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria , one of the two wealthiest , and probably the best organised , health charity in Australia . |
| 8 | More hostility exists than can be accounted for on political and economic theories of the Marxist type . |
| 9 | It may be argued that the effects of physical-care experiences , though obscured later on by subsequent events , do at least have an impact at the time , and that much of the variation in infant behaviour can be accounted for by differences in training practices . |
| 10 | The discrepancy between the two sets of figures for David 's census can be accounted for by recognizing at different stages in transmission , first , the addition of noughts , and the , a misunderstanding of " Ip . |
| 11 | If we postulate original figures : Israel 80,000 plus 30 " Ip ; Judah : 40,000 plus 70 " Ip , the present text of both Samuel and Chronicles can be accounted for thus : |
| 12 | Yet both Bullock and the more recent Oracle project ( Galton , Simon and Kroll , 1980 ) point to the dominant place of writing in the school day , despite differences in the detailed findings which can be accounted for by different observational methodologies . |
| 13 | This means that an ambiguous word form set in a disambiguating context may well carry more information than can be accounted for in terms of interaction between the context-independent meaning of the word form , and the semantic properties of the context . |
| 14 | This ambiguity can be accounted for without the need either for two different elements enter , or two different elements again , if we regard the meaning of enter as being constituted out of more elementary semantic entities which are related quasi-syntactically : |
| 15 | If our analysis is valid , one consequence is that a greater proportion of observed health differences in childhood would be associated with socioeconomic variations in circumstances than can be accounted for by conventional social class groupings . |
| 16 | Kant , as we saw , held that the unity of the phenomenal world can be accounted for only if space and time are interpreted as forms of our intuition , not as properties of things in themselves , but that for this very reason we must accept that there is an extra-phenomenal as well as a phenomenal side to reality , with things in themselves being inaccessible to cognition . |
| 17 | This judgement — as with that of the advisory service — can be accounted for partly in terms of the traditional antagonism of schools to ‘ the office ’ which pervades many LEAs . |
| 18 | Thru subverts the literary theory which has as its premise that every narrative contains a meaning and that this meaning can be accounted for in terms of a universal ‘ elementary structure of signification ’ which posits woman as an object of exchange between men . |
| 19 | The radical simplification of forms which characterizes the painting can be accounted for by the fact that this was one of the first canvases in which Braque attempted to work from memory . |
| 20 | You can see that much of what is known about the Moon can be accounted for by these theories . |
| 21 | The large reduction in casualties for 16–18 year olds in Lothian can be accounted for by a significant reduction in motorcycle use by this age group . |
| 22 | One murder can be explained , one suicide can be accounted for , but another suicide ? ’ |
| 23 | The differences in expansivity can be accounted for if the interaction parameter is now expressed as where the first term reflects the interchange energy on forming contacts of unlike type and includes segment size differences , while the second term is the new ‘ structural ’ contribution coming from free volume changes on mixing a dense polymer with an expanded solvent . |
| 24 | Most adenocarcinomas of the oesophagus , however , arise in CLO that is already established and the disparity between incidence and prevalence can be accounted for by the high proportion of the population with unrecognised disease , up to 20 times that of those detected . |
| 25 | Thanks to this way of analysing the movement of to , the expressive effects of unexpectedness , good or bad luck and the like produced by the to infinitive in these cases can be accounted for . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That the concept of a target real wage rate can be accounted for in terms of the behaviour of rational , maximizing agents is amply demonstrated in the works of Layard , of Carlin and Soskice ( 1990 ) and of the works of the new Keynesian school ( see Chapter 8 ) . |