Example sentences of "to account for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 2 | From 20% in 1980 , investment banking grew to account for two-thirds of the business at the bigger houses in the go-go days . |
| 3 | Logic needs to account for logical relations among sentences the sort that we 'll learn about in elementary symbolic logic . |
| 4 | time co-ordinate : to account for tensed sentences and adverbials like today or next week |
| 5 | Originally constructed to account for atomic physics it has proved equally applicable to the behaviour of those latest candidates for the role of basic constituents of matter , the quarks and gluons . |
| 6 | It indicated for the first time that quantum theory , which had been developed to account for atomic phenomena , still remained successful when applied to nuclei , systems which are a hundred thousand times smaller . |
| 7 | In 1987 , Italian statisticians added 18 per cent to their estimate of Italy 's national income to account for unrecorded economic activity . |
| 8 | Although the force of custom and prevailing values may appear sufficient to account for traditional differences in the economic roles of spouses , and although people conforming to convention need not be aware of any financial motivation to do so , customary practice is reinforced by an economic rationale . |
| 9 | The latter mechanisms have also been used to account for limited segmental relaxations in the backbone of all carbon chain , single strand , polymers . |
| 10 | These plans have been broadly accepted and , with others to follow , Lindsell expects them to account for substantial investment and allocation of human resources over the next five years or so . |
| 11 | His anthropological attempt to account for spatial variations in the nature of politics is countered by others who associate the origins of political variations across the earth 's surface with variations within the sphere of production ( notably with the core-periphery structure of the capitalist world-economy : Johnston , 1984d , 1989d ; Taylor , 1989 ) . |
| 12 | The illegal trade is estimated to account for one third of the world 's buoyant market for wildlife . |
| 13 | ‘ All Bonanza has to do now is stay out of sight until a good tale is dreamed up to account for two of his boys getting mixed up in this thing last night , and a few unimpeachable witnesses to make the tale stick , and we all go back where we started . ’ |
| 14 | The government has also failed to account for many hundreds who ‘ disappeared ’ in custody after an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1977 . |
| 15 | The various explanations for communication failure that have been proposed — including not taking account of properties of the stimulus array , not asking questions , failing to perceive the role of the message , and having insufficient cognitive space to monitor the activity — seem to account for many of the experimental findings . |
| 16 | Hence the focus is on local politics , on the ways in which these have changed and developed over the post-war period and on the concepts and theories used to account for such changes . |
| 17 | A theory of standardization must be able to account for such songs ; and Adorno 's approach surely begins to crack at this point . |
| 18 | Neither of these events in themselves ( or even together ) seems significant enough to account for such a drastic change in policy direction . |
| 19 | [ … ] In the course of attempting to account for such market phenomena as quality differentiation , advertising , or markets in which few producers are to be found [ … ] neo-classical theories were led to conclusions which grossly misinterpret the significance of these phenomena . |
| 20 | For example , the failure to account for such characteristics as ‘ frailty ’ , which vary from individual to individual , can lead to systematic exaggeration of the benefits of medical treatments . |
| 21 | A number of general theories which have been used to account for such relationships are first described and evidence bearing on them is discussed . |
| 22 | Because theories are always being changed to account for new observations , they are never properly digested or simplified so that ordinary people can understand them . |
| 23 | While this method may work for some differences , it will not be sufficient to account for major variations in a word 's pronunciation such as the — and , or for — and . |
| 24 | The teaching task is to see that the techniques that are used are effective in promoting learning objectives , so they have to be designed to account for specific contexts of instruction . |
| 25 | The GEC Initiative is expected to account for one-third of total social science spending in the l990s . |
| 26 | The aid consortium had encouraged an increase in spending on the social sector and infrastructure , and urged lower spending on defence ( thought to account for one-third of GDP ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This i was taken to account for visual in particular of word recog letter recognition through the visual system . |
| 29 | What distinguishes them from secondary ( and tertiary ) qualities is that they are those features which corpuscles need to have in order to account for all the qualities ( primary , secondary , and tertiary ) of the substances which they make up . |
| 30 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |