Example sentences of "[adj] to account for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But it is one thing to document the diversity in local authority expenditure and political activity ; it is another to account for its origins and maintenance . |
| 2 | This is a result that is much easier to account for if we suggest that a body clock is responsible for the alternation between sleep and activity . |
| 3 | The inferences in ( 33 ) 4 are easier to account for . |
| 4 | so , it becomes easier to account for the relationship of both of these works to the pavement of room 5 , Great Witcombe ( see section 2.1 , above . |
| 5 | Greenbaum and Quirk posit a principle of end-focus to account for the tendency to process information' so as to achieve a linear presentation from low to high information value' . |
| 6 | Berkeley was not alone in questioning whether geometrical methods are adequate to account for visual perception since there was a large literature on the subject by ‘ scientists ’ and , as Kemp shows , artists also frequently commented on it . |
| 7 | The researchers concede , though , that none of these explanations seems adequate to account for setts containing hundreds of metres of tunnels and dozens of chambers , which are ‘ amongst the largest and most enduring artefacts constructed by any non-human mammal species . ’ |
| 8 | The botanist J. D. Hooker postulated a massive extension of land in the Antarctic to account for the similarity of plants between New Zealand , South America and the islands of the remote south . |
| 9 | Mukerji is not dividing off consumption from production , but showing how it is impossible to account for the development of the latter without considering the history of the former . |
| 10 | This general picture of IS demand is confirmed by records kept in the school library , which show children referred to the school library in IS lessons between November 1983 and July 1984 to account for almost 80% of the referrals logged . |
| 11 | An increased freedom in life-style might be supposed to account for the increased variability in timing of daily rhythms that is found in the elderly . |
| 12 | This was supposed to account for the value of their contribution towards the stockpiling of plutonium as fuel for future reactors . |
| 13 | And a syllabus which defines its content in functional terms is supposed to account for communicative competence in a way which syllabuses designed on other principles can not . |
| 14 | In 1907 it had been noted that nickelodeons were opening up on every American street and it was not hard to account for their success . |
| 15 | By the end of the century oil and gas are likely to account for 20–25 per cent of GNP . |
| 16 | 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% . |
| 17 | There must have been other factors present to account for the size of deposits created by the credit multiplier effect described earlier . |
| 18 | However , some authors ( notably Scholle , 1971 and Wachs & hein , 1974 ) are of the opinion that pressure solution is too late to account for the origin of most burial cements . |
| 19 | Equally impossible would be an adequate explanation of taste-changes : is it reasonable to account for the advent of jazz , rock 'n' roll , beat and punk in terms of ‘ pseudo-individualization ’ within an underlying process of simple reproduction ? |
| 20 | If a comparable relationship between protein synthesis in colonic mucosa and in the whole body existed in man , then colonic protein synthesis would have to increase by a factor of 80 to account for a doubling of whole body protein synthesis . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A detailed story was constructed and refined to account for both the straightforward and more difficult aspects of Prolog . |
| 23 | With some modifications by DCS , Derwentside 's system is able to account for staff who go out on appointments , such as health inspectors . |
| 24 | We had to be able to invoice in a local currency and yet be able to account for it in sterling . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We have not been able to account for him and we do n't know where he is and we 're very much interested in talking to him , ’ he said . |
| 26 | By abandoning any logic of progress for the negative synthesis of anti-labour which produces deviation , Sartre is , on the other hand , able to account for the major detour that provides the context for his whole debate with Merleau-Ponty , and indeed for all post-war Marxism : the spectre of Stalinism . |
| 27 | From the outset we can see that Freud 's theory , while being sociological in its understanding of individualism as social product , has the advantage over Durkheim 's sociologism in being able to account for creativity and for change in human societies . |
| 28 | A theory of standardization must be able to account for such songs ; and Adorno 's approach surely begins to crack at this point . |
| 29 | His relativity theory was able to account for the phenomena that falsified Newton 's theory , while at the same time being able to match Newton 's theory in those areas where the latter had proved successful . |
| 30 | Roughly speaking , a proposed methodology ( and its associated characterization of what constitutes progress ) is to be evaluated by the extent to which it is able to account for ‘ good ’ science and its history . |