Example sentences of "account for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen was convinced he was being unreasonable , but she could not account for her intense feelings of rage . |
| 2 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 3 | That would account for its appeal to males of all ages , and equally explain the absence of females , whose finite universe has traditionally been provided by the home , housework , and the shopping . |
| 4 | It lies in sops or bellies , surrounded by hard rocks , which will readily account for its being suddenly lost ; and these sops or bellies , being generally at considerable distances , will equally well account for the difficulty with which it is commonly regained … ’ |
| 5 | And how can we account for its appearance now when less than two years ago , Reagan and his government-shrinking colleagues attempted an across-the-board 12-per cent blood-letting on the research and development budget they had inherited from Jimmy Carter ? |
| 6 | What alternative was offered , and how can we account for its lack of success and ultimate demise in the interwar period ? |
| 7 | If you have n't activated the turbo facility , the machine might not be running at 20MHz , which would account for its lousy games performance . |
| 8 | Its stimulant effect may account for its reputation as an aphrodisiac , its generic name being thought to come from satyr , S. hortensis ( summer savory ) is the annual ; S. montana ( winter savory ) a perennial shrub , whose leaves have a stronger , but less pleasant flavour . |
| 9 | I can not account for its striking me more now than any other day , but it was as if new to me ; and I listened to every sentence he spoke as if to a musical composition . ’ |
| 10 | A unique property of elemental diet , which might account for its effectiveness in acute Crohn 's disease is its hypoallergenic nature . |
| 11 | This may account for its use even by white speakers like Susan , and " minimal " black Creole speakers like Joan : though whether their use of these forms would be judged correct by JC speakers is difficult to say . |
| 12 | Locke obviously recognized the implausibility of supposing that experience gives us these pieces of knowledge ; experience can not account for their certain applicability to all wholes , all numbers , or all promises . |
| 13 | It does seem a pity that no one has bothered to look at the actual behaviour of the children in question in relation to such practices as might lead them to encounter greater dangers of lead pollution ; the almost entire absence of psychologists among the medical and other experts engaged in this research may account for their overlooking a very obvious alternative hypothesis . |
| 14 | Make them account for their actions . |
| 15 | The work has demonstrated that psychotic individuals do indeed show some imbalance in hemisphere organisation that could account for their bizarre psychological experiences . |
| 16 | How should we account for their racism and sexism ? |
| 17 | Thus Fisherian models could account for their initial elaboration , but good genes models probably could not . |
| 18 | That may account for their ability to survive such an ejection . |
| 19 | ‘ I should demand that everyone should account for their movements but , ’ he smiled thinly , ‘ in the main we all sleep alone and I have no authority to ask . ’ |
| 20 | They must account for their management of the economy . |
| 21 | His answer was very clever : no one could really account for their movements but once again Benjamin and I had drunk deeply from the cup of failure . |
| 22 | The ability of bacterial exotoxins to activate large numbers of T cells with consequent release of cytokines could directly account for their pathogenic effects and the clinical syndromes they produce . |
| 23 | Our intention was to identify differences in the binding specificities of these two homologous IE proteins that might account for their opposing functional effects on the IE-3 promoter seen in transfection assays ( 17 ) . |
| 24 | The lieutenant was right : it would be nigh impossible to make everyone account for their movements . |
| 25 | And so , on 9 February , 1950 , to a startled audience of women Republicans in Wheeling , West Virginia , McCarthy raised the favourite bogey : ‘ How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster ? |
| 26 | We consider some of the main hypotheses that might account for our findings . |
| 27 | This , in turn , might account for our difficulty in dealing with objects through academic studies dominated by language . |
| 28 | ‘ We must account for our movements , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ None of us can account for our movements precisely . |
| 30 | ‘ So you can all account for your movements ? ’ |