Example sentences of "which [modal v] account for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But sadly , the general quality of fishkeeping books is not good , I feel , which may account for some of the specific problems we encounter . |
| 2 | Three-quarters of village income by the mid-1980s was earned outside , either elsewhere in the West Bank , or more usually in Israel , which might account for 60 per cent of village income . |
| 3 | In a detailed and thorough analysis of possible factors which might account for this difference , J. Walker et al. |
| 4 | There are clearly a large number of factors which could account for this difference . |
| 5 | Investment was planned to rise by 10.3 per cent a year during the five years , with an increasing role for private investment which would account for 60 per cent of the total by 1993 . |
| 6 | In pursuit of this goal , the grammarian will concentrate on a particular body of data and attempt to produce an exhaustive but economical set of rules which will account for all and only the acceptable sentences in his data . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This had grown out of his very successful Special Theory of Relativity which he had published in 1905 and which can account for two-thirds of the 43′ residual . |