Example sentences of "account for [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They are not necessarily extravagant but devote themselves to appearance as to a very demanding goddess whose exigencies may account for that well-kempt , bad tempered look most of them adopt . |
| 32 | ‘ And that gap in your defences — the blind spot on darkside — how do you account for that ? ’ |
| 33 | Now I ca n't account for that , because he ought to have strong ones did n't he , if he did all that stuff there ? |
| 34 | The only way I can account for that is he was exposed to some sort of nerve gas . ’ |
| 35 | How can you actually account for that because either you could er increase your profits by the accrued amounts and then somewhere else balance sheet and should pay for your acquisition |
| 36 | Indeed , coastal trading may be the only explanation for the peculiar distributions of some species , e.g. Exotheca abyssinica ( Gramineae ) in tropical East Africa and Vietnam and may account for that of Stylosanthes humilis ( ‘ S. sundaica' , Leguminosae ) , which was perhaps taken from Brazil to Malesia by the Portuguese . |
| 37 | How do you account for that ? |
| 38 | The incidental carbohydrate in vegetables , nuts and other foods will account for most of your daily allowance . |
| 39 | Solution compaction between grains reduces the effective intergranular porosity within a grainy sediment ( Fig. 5.19b ) and is therefore important in reservoir evaluation ; in some cases solution compaction may account for most of the overall porosity reduction . |
| 40 | Both of these would account for most of the variations in the different rates of fall . |
| 41 | Clearly , the Williams-Renault was on the pace even though gearbox trouble would eventually account for both drivers , Patrese 's departure being the more dramatic of the two . |
| 42 | Therefore neither group 's data can be discounted and any model of the VOR must account for both sets of results . |
| 43 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |
| 44 | Hi-Tec hopes North America , which lifted sales and profits by 20 per cent , and Europe will account for half of group turnover by early 1991 . |
| 45 | This will account for half the 215 students in the year , and we hope to continue expanding until all first year students participate in one community based general medical firm . |
| 46 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 47 | The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending . |
| 48 | 5 No subdivision of the X -axis should account for more than half the range of the X -values found in the data . |
| 49 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 50 | It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period . |
| 51 | Food is the most important item in the expenditure of most households in the Third World and can account for more than three-quarters of the budget of a poor urban family . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | It might also be maintained that the elasticity of the concept of Satya in Indian philosophical thought may well account for these apparent contradictions . |
| 54 | Can you or any of your readers put forward ideas that would account for these oddities ? |
| 55 | Clayey deposits are not found below unit I ( refs 6 , 15 ) implying that climatic change alone can not account for these sediments . |
| 56 | As the severity of Crohn 's disease and linear growth velocity during the first two years of follow up among males and females were comparable , it is possible that varying demands on growth during normal puberty may account for these differences . |
| 57 | Widespread activation of T cells , with selective representation of particular V elements , is also a feature of some inflammatory joint diseases linked with infective agents and of Kawasaki disease , and superantigen effects could account for these associations . |
| 58 | How do we account for this obfuscation ? |
| 59 | How do we account for this ? |
| 60 | Lesbians ' low social profile may partly account for this . |