Example sentences of "account for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were probably plants living in hilly regions from quite early which have left little fossil record , and this may account for some of the gaps in the preserved fossils . |
| 2 | This is certainly true , but this explanation might only account for some 4 or 5 per cent or NGU cases . |
| 3 | If all goes to plan , oil should account for some 50% of demand in 1990 and 38% in the year 2000 . |
| 4 | Hibernation mortality may also account for some considerable part of cave bear mortality in European cave sites ( Kurten , 1958 ) . |
| 5 | But sadly , the general quality of fishkeeping books is not good , I feel , which may account for some of the specific problems we encounter . |
| 6 | The note indicates that the rate of increase is higher than that for restaurant prices in general over this period , and this could account for some of the reduction in business . |
| 7 | For all that , I conclude that the postulated underlying rules for development may usefully account for some of the variation in human sexual behaviour and possibly even the variation in marriage laws . |
| 8 | As the polar headgroups of the lipid bilayer will account for some 6 to 10 of this distance , the overall stalk length , from the base of domain 2 to the cell surface , is likely to be less than 10 . |
| 9 | Although it will have overtaken OS/2 's share by this time , Unix will still account for some 32% of servers systems sold by this time , the market research group says . |
| 10 | Absenteeism will account for some gaps , and temporary vacancies for inability to state a clerk 's name . |
| 11 | Doubts were expressed about the authorship of the early ‘ St Jerome in the Wilderness ’ from São Paulo although the poor condition of the surface may account for some of the picture 's awkwardness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , as Table 5.8 shows , employment in primary industry can still account for 12 per cent of all employment in rural areas , and when all the ancillary trades associated with agriculture are counted in , for example , food processing , machinery , and fertilizer and pesticide production , agriculture may well account for some 10 to 15 per cent of all national employment , although there are no accurate figures for this . |
| 14 | Such factors as incentives , motivation , perseverance , and the like may account for some of the proportion allocated to education ; and these factors may be partly the effects of education and partly its causes . |
| 15 | In the fourth and fifth years of secondary education , they suggested , the foundation subjects might account for some 75–85% of pupils ' time ( 30–40% of that devoted to the core subjects ) , leaving some 15–25% of time for other subjects , at the discretion of the school ( DES/Welsh Office , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , not all studies have used proper controls and this may account for some of the contradictory results reported . |
| 17 | The Bar Council 's equal opportunities programme will account for some 10% of total expenditure this year . |
| 18 | The model involving hydrogen bonding to guanine also does not account for some features of cleavage at GpN sites . |