Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may account for their ability to survive such an ejection . |
| 2 | Surely that must account for it ? |
| 3 | This may account for the relatively high level of interest being expressed in the issue . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This may account for the ‘ pushing out ’ of the undersized fry . |
| 6 | Mention is also made of a small attached building heated by a hypocaust at the south-west corner , suggested as a possible priest 's house , and this may account for the so-called ‘ hypocaust ’ tiles found on the site , presumably box-flues . |
| 7 | This may account for certain background noises in the tracks ! |
| 8 | While this may account for part of the gap in the gross weekly earnings of men and women , however , it can not account for the difference in hourly rates of pay . |
| 9 | Nowhere north of the Tagus was there a class like the landless rural proletariat of Andalusia and Estremadura , and this may account for the relative political stability of Castile : only one nineteenth-century revolt started in the classic wheat lands . |
| 10 | This may account for his daughter 's distancing herself in her books from the commercial classes and her somewhat self-conscious identification with the upper classes . |
| 11 | A visit to France , the details of which remain unclear , also led to the accusation that he had associated with the supporters of Mary Queen of Scots [ q.v. ] there : this may account for the apparent loss of royal favour by the mid-1570s . |
| 12 | This may account for the regular citation in the Commissioner 's Annual Reports of several applications ‘ not pursued ’ by the applicants . |
| 13 | This may account for the fact that while recall is almost uniformly greater for schema-consistent information , recognition results have been markedly more mixed ( Brewer & Nakamura , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | This may account for the fact that thesis citations in systematic botany accounted for only 5% of the total citations in a recent study ( Delendick ) . |
| 15 | This may account for his lack of concern for the organisation of people . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , not all studies have used proper controls and this may account for some of the contradictory results reported . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If the molecules were some part of the chromosomes , this might account for the many nuclear changes which had been observed . |
| 19 | This could account for the frequency with which food colourings have been identified as the source of adverse reactions . |
| 20 | I talked to members of Wingates Band , who said that there is no set plan — this could account for the apparent chaos — but the idea is to take part in as many of the competitions as possible . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He argues that the walls would have reduced in thickness above the platform , and have acted as the stylobate for the columns of the portico and this could account for the comparatively small diameter of the column drum found on the site ( his p. 16 ) . |
| 23 | This could account for the weather sensitivity of some people who show either depression before a storm , or pains in joints and injuries . |
| 24 | This would account for Rufus 's readiness to fall in with Anselm 's demand that Matilda should be forced to return to her cloister , which ( as we have seen ) rather surprised Anselm . |
| 25 | This would account for the agricultural implements , which include a plough-tip , the other tools being used by carpenters and gardeners . |
| 26 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 27 | This would account for the singular lack of internal buildings , even though a civilian element may have remained among the population as the sharp distinction between fort and town became increasingly blurred in the fourth century . |
| 28 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It left open the question of whose money had paid for the House of Fraser but made clear that nothing in the career of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed could account for such new-found wealth . |