Example sentences of "account for their " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Make them account for their actions . |
| 4 | The work has demonstrated that psychotic individuals do indeed show some imbalance in hemisphere organisation that could account for their bizarre psychological experiences . |
| 5 | How should we account for their racism and sexism ? |
| 6 | Thus Fisherian models could account for their initial elaboration , but good genes models probably could not . |
| 7 | That may account for their ability to survive such an ejection . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | They must account for their management of the economy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The lieutenant was right : it would be nigh impossible to make everyone account for their movements . |