Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] account for the " in BNC.

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1 In the case of cocaine this effect is direct , which may account for the drug 's peculiar potency .
2 We used paraffin sections which may account for the 50% sensitivity that we found .
3 In Europe police organisation is hierarchical , centralised and supervised by the government , all of which may account for the tendency to rely on police investigations while , at the same time , declining to constrain them by the kind of normative rules we find in Anglo-American law .
4 The analyses are used to look for patterns in the types of information available from stimuli which may account for the previous risk and recognition results and the relationships between risk and recognition .
5 Moreover , the reduced plasminogen activator activity of malignant ascites is caused by increased concentrations of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , which may account for the lower incidence of coagulopathy after insertion of shunts seen in this group of patients .
6 As it must be swallowed , the layer is not too thick , which may account for the common occurrence of relatively thin layers of nutritious material over a single seed or a few seeds in a fruit .
7 Some toxins have been identified , and one makes the blood vessels more leaky , which might account for the production of urticaria .
8 Finally , ethanol is a potent inhibitor of the IP 3 R , which might account for the ataxia associated with ethanol intoxication .
9 Maybe they even try to swim against it which might account for the length of time that passes before they reach European waters .
10 Using existing data sets , it will make initial estimates of the scale of any effect which low incomes might have on the health if the elderly in Britain , and go on to assess the likely role of some intervening variables which might account for the close correlation between income distribution and longevity in developed countries .
11 There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery .
12 As was suggested above , there were , within the internal development of psychoanalysis , new findings which necessitated a new conceptualization which could account for the compulsion to repeat unpleasurable experiences .
13 There were no obvious differences between the studies in the way in which they were conducted which could account for the wide range of rates of dream reporting from NREM sleep .
14 For a massive planet consisting largely of hydrogen and helium there are two main sources of heat for the interior , each of which could account for the excess radiation .
15 In some cases , the symptoms may have been psychosomatic in origin , which would account for the good effect of the placebo .
16 Althusser actually says that an ideal explanation would map out the relations between different factors down to and including individuals , and thus outlines a programme for a perfect social theory which would account for the parts played by individuals in social organisation and change .
17 We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them .
18 A Hair is always affected by the chemical changes taking place within our body , which can account for the fact that perms will sometimes be successful and sometimes not .
19 I would call genealogy … a form of history which can account for the constitution of knowledges , discourses , domains of objects etc. , without having to make reference to a subject which is either transcendental in relation to the field of events or runs in its empty sameness throughout the course of history .
20 By adopting a text-based approach he searches for an explicit and comprehensive communicative theory which can account for the psychological effects created by poetic texts .
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