Example sentences of "account for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CFCs are a fraction of the emissions of carbon dioxide but nevertheless it is estimated that , unless the Montreal Protocol is strengthened , CFCs will account for 13 per cent of global warming by 2030 . |
| 2 | It claims that with such a tax incentive biofuels could eventually account for 5 per cent of overall fuel consumption in the Community . |
| 3 | This may account for certain background noises in the tracks ! |
| 4 | Finally , as Ehrlichman and Weinberger point out , differences in the distance between subject and experimenter may well account for certain of the inconsistencies in the results reported by different investigators . |
| 5 | Lineage-based development , with its dependence on cytoplasmic localization , can account for much of the sea-squirt development but the idea should not be taken too far . |
| 6 | Its use for examination purposes is clearly a rather restricted justification , although it may account for much of the labelling of ‘ failure ’ which the working-class child experiences . |
| 7 | And even if it was close to being right , say the unemployment is say , twenty percent , it does n't account for like under-employment in the , in the informal sector and things like that |
| 8 | Many of these reports should be interpreted with caution in the light of several factors that can account for misleading results . |
| 9 | In the same issue of the Lancet , Astra replied that Glaxo 's new test was scientifically unsound because it did not account for normal cell division ( which would also stimulate DNA synthesis ) . |
| 10 | The aim of the research is to develop a scientific theory of the processes involved in face and person recognition that can account for normal performance , and will help in understanding the different types of difficulty in recognising faces experienced by patients who have had strokes . |
| 11 | This structural and molecular homology may account for many of the functional similarities that exist between IP 3 Rs and RYRs . |
| 12 | These may not account for many university graduates ( although relatively more in Scotland ) , but they are rather more important in the polytechnics and colleges , especially in the latter where such multi-subject combined or general degrees are quite common ( outside Scotland ) . |
| 13 | Those extra 1 million pensioners must account for many of the additional claimants . |
| 14 | Greater specialization within some regional police forces may account for such a strong discrepancy . |
| 15 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 16 | War , disease or climatic change could account for such a throwback . |
| 17 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 18 | It left open the question of whose money had paid for the House of Fraser but made clear that nothing in the career of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed could account for such new-found wealth . |
| 19 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |
| 20 | It suggests that electric cars could account for 7 per cent by volume of total urban vehicle traffic by the year 2002 . |
| 21 | Similar mechanisms may account for other cancers of the reproductive organs . |
| 22 | A UNDP report released at the congress warned that AIDS could threaten the economic well-being of Asian countries , which by the year 2000 would account for 42 per cent of the world 's projected 100,000,000 cases . |
| 23 | Tribology technologies are ready for application , and can account for substantial savings to industry . |
| 24 | Indeed , gastrinoma growth did not appear as an essential factor and , as shown in Table IV , neither sex , level of hypergastrinaemia , duration of disease , nor the type and duration of antisecretory treatment can , independently , account for neoplastic changes . |
| 25 | It would be easy to dismiss ‘ softing ’ as an esoteric corner of the stock market which could be ignored , if it did not account for one deal in every six . |
| 26 | This extreme reductionism has failed simply because elements such as Pavlov 's ‘ conditioned reflexes ’ can not account for all aspects of behaviour . |
| 27 | The problem here is that while purse nets will account for all the rabbits leaving the netted holes — or those attempting to return via those holes — some rabbits will undoubtedly return to the warren via the unnetted holes . |
| 28 | However , the tendency has been to assume that if behaviourist notions can not account for all aspects of language learning it can not account for any . |
| 29 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 30 | Psychoanalytic theory reached a point where it could not account for all the observations made within the analytic setting , nor for the murdering impulses shown in mankind 's historical and cultural development . |