Example sentences of "[adj] account for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The energy exporters are likely to account for more than half the growth in demand to the year 2000 and their share of consumption will increase to almost 50% . |
| 2 | The idea that women are more conservative than men is manifestly inadequate to account for all the observed facts , at least in the cultures sociolinguists have studied most intensively , and it is rarely advanced nowadays as an explanation of sex differences . |
| 3 | A theory of standardization must be able to account for such songs ; and Adorno 's approach surely begins to crack at this point . |
| 4 | We are not able to account for these industry level changes , but find the broad picture of " no change " of more importance . |
| 5 | Whatever the problems with these rather global and unanalytic formulations , none the less they do encapsulate one indispensable and basic argument of feminism , the argument that women 's experience has been left out : one of the central themes of feminism has been the importance of women 's experience , and one of its central enterprises has been to show how a great deal of male theorising about women has tended to deny , invalidate , or be unable to account for this experience . |
| 6 | Environmental variations are fundamental to the creation of the complex cultural mosaic that comprises human occupance of the earth , but their existence is insufficient to account for that mosaic . |
| 7 | The extra gravitational attraction of such a large number of black holes could explain why our galaxy rotates at the rate it does : the mass of the visible stars is insufficient to account for this . |
| 8 | But according to a Greenpeace scientist , the amount of cod and capelin taken by the seals is insufficient to account for any significant decline in cod numbers . |
| 9 | It is also possible that Mercury formed heterogeneously , in which case it need never have become hot enough to differentiate , though it is then more difficult to account for any widespread crater erasure . |
| 10 | It is difficult to account for this difference in latency periods , but one contributory factor may be the better bibliographical control of the subject field , as described earlier , which results in increased consultations soon after the theses are deposited . |
| 11 | No details were given of the glycaemic control or other metabolic parameters of the two groups of diabetics studied ( Davis et al , 1982 ) , and it is difficult to account for these findings . |
| 12 | ‘ Bouncing off the sides or front on to the ground , being hit by other children , or just falling awkwardly while on the inflatable accounted for most of the injuries , ’ says the report . |
| 13 | Gulliver , it was held that any profit made by a director as a result of the misuse of confidential information , which he had obtained by virtue of his position as an insider , was liable to account for that profit to the company . |