Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeanette Lamb , a research team member at the Institute of Molecular Medicine , John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford , said : ‘ We have found a cause for mental retardation that may account for a large proportion of the unexplained cases . ’ |
| 2 | Within this region we noted two short T n A elements and one ATTTA element that may account for the low steady-state levels of RNA seen in transfected cells ( see below ) . |
| 3 | This type of geomorphology , which has subsequently attracted both great support and disenchantment , has been the subject of at least two groups of interpretations and it is perhaps the lack of equal familiarity with the achievements of both groups that may account for the differing viewpoints some of which are listed in Table 4.1 . |
| 4 | These arguments together with those of chapter 2 on the role of the state provide a framework for understanding the consequences for industrial relations of the current economic crisis in the advanced capitalist countries , and suggest some dimensions of variation that may account for differences between different national systems . |
| 5 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 6 | The theories that have guided these insights into the mechanisms of psychotic and creative thought do not , of course , specify what it is about the brain that might account for the differences observed in schizophrenic and schizotypal individuals . |
| 7 | We consider some of the main hypotheses that might account for our findings . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | A feature on the noises made by muscles in action had several member of staff listening to their own thunder by covering their ears with their thumbs and tightening their hand into fists The magazine also revived all the explanation that could account for the Loch Ness monster , an overture to the silly season , though there was little evidence that there would be one this year . |
| 10 | The work has demonstrated that psychotic individuals do indeed show some imbalance in hemisphere organisation that could account for their bizarre psychological experiences . |
| 11 | If a particular group is disproportionately represented in prison , are there other , independent variables that could account for the correlation ? |
| 12 | From a consecutive series of 50 referral letters sent by general practitioners in Sunderland to the local department of child psychiatry , 15 items of information were identified that could account for all the information contained in the letters . |
| 13 | She questioned him , trying to find out if he had an infection that could account for the temperature . |
| 14 | By extension , for many 19th-century commentators , there was an urgent need for a science of woman that would account for the nature of femininity . |
| 15 | Can you or any of your readers put forward ideas that would account for these oddities ? |
| 16 | Whatever understanding of societies we gain in future , we do not now have a theory of ideology capable of explaining the myriad ways in which individuals perceive their situations , nor a theory of the social determination of character that will account for the vicissitudes of history . |
| 17 | Features of language that interest theoretical ( academic ) linguists include linguistic competence ( the way in which people decide whether a sentence is grammatical or not ) , language universals ( grammatical principles that apply to all natural languages ) and in finding the simplest , computationally most restricted theory that can account for natural language . |
| 18 | The aim of the research is to develop a scientific theory of the processes involved in face and person recognition that can account for normal performance , and will help in understanding the different types of difficulty in recognising faces experienced by patients who have had strokes . |
| 19 | Many of these reports should be interpreted with caution in the light of several factors that can account for misleading results . |
| 20 | This makes it difficult for traders to recognize arbitrage possibilities involving a future on a geometric index when the future is underpriced , and may account for the replacement of the geometric VLCI future by its arithmetic equivalent . |
| 21 | Behaviour within the system 's context may be more easily observable and may account for the many user studies which persist in observing users in terms of the information system and not in terms of the user . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Although it may not be possible to achieve therapeutic effects in the colon with this formulation , small bowel luminal concentrationmay be higher , and might account for the reports of possible benefit in small numbers of patients with coeliac and Crohn 's disease . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Most scientists believe the infill to be lava , and though there are no features yet seen on the Moon that are definitely volcanic , floods of lava from fissures that are buried beneath their own lava are known on the Earth and could account for the mare infill on the Moon . |
| 26 | For example , if a UK company acquires goods from a Belgian supplier to fulfil an order from a German customer and the goods are sent direct from Belgium to Germany , the UK company would be required to register for German VAT and would account for tax on the acquisition in Germany and onward domestic supply of goods to the German customer . |
| 27 | Tribology technologies are ready for application , and can account for substantial savings to industry . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Out-of-hours trading is permitted by the clearing house and can account for up to a third of on-exchange trading . |
| 30 | Bleeding from colonic varices is a rare clinical problem but may account for up to 25% of bleeding ectopic varices , particularly in cirrhotic patients . |