Example sentences of "this [modal v] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may account for the relatively high level of interest being expressed in the issue . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This may account for the ‘ pushing out ’ of the undersized fry . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This may account for certain background noises in the tracks ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This may account for the regular citation in the Commissioner 's Annual Reports of several applications ‘ not pursued ’ by the applicants . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | This may account for his lack of concern for the organisation of people . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , not all studies have used proper controls and this may account for some of the contradictory results reported . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If the molecules were some part of the chromosomes , this might account for the many nuclear changes which had been observed . |
| 17 | This could account for the frequency with which food colourings have been identified as the source of adverse reactions . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | This could account for the weather sensitivity of some people who show either depression before a storm , or pains in joints and injuries . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This would account for the agricultural implements , which include a plough-tip , the other tools being used by carpenters and gardeners . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |