Example sentences of "account for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lineage-based development , with its dependence on cytoplasmic localization , can account for much of the sea-squirt development but the idea should not be taken too far . |
| 2 | Its use for examination purposes is clearly a rather restricted justification , although it may account for much of the labelling of ‘ failure ’ which the working-class child experiences . |
| 3 | This structural and molecular homology may account for many of the functional similarities that exist between IP 3 Rs and RYRs . |
| 4 | These may not account for many university graduates ( although relatively more in Scotland ) , but they are rather more important in the polytechnics and colleges , especially in the latter where such multi-subject combined or general degrees are quite common ( outside Scotland ) . |
| 5 | Those extra 1 million pensioners must account for many of the additional claimants . |
| 6 | Greater specialization within some regional police forces may account for such a strong discrepancy . |
| 7 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 8 | War , disease or climatic change could account for such a throwback . |
| 9 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 10 | It left open the question of whose money had paid for the House of Fraser but made clear that nothing in the career of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed could account for such new-found wealth . |
| 11 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |
| 12 | This extreme reductionism has failed simply because elements such as Pavlov 's ‘ conditioned reflexes ’ can not account for all aspects of behaviour . |
| 13 | The problem here is that while purse nets will account for all the rabbits leaving the netted holes — or those attempting to return via those holes — some rabbits will undoubtedly return to the warren via the unnetted holes . |
| 14 | However , the tendency has been to assume that if behaviourist notions can not account for all aspects of language learning it can not account for any . |
| 15 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 16 | Psychoanalytic theory reached a point where it could not account for all the observations made within the analytic setting , nor for the murdering impulses shown in mankind 's historical and cultural development . |
| 17 | Without it , psychoanalytic theory could not account for all that it had been observed human beings could do to themselves and to one another . |
| 18 | If a law does not account for all that happens , then it has to be modified . |
| 19 | In pursuit of this goal , the grammarian will concentrate on a particular body of data and attempt to produce an exhaustive but economical set of rules which will account for all and only the acceptable sentences in his data . |
| 20 | These changes in metabolic rate affect our rate of physiological time , although they can not account for all the changes in time perception we experience as we age . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Also , it can not account for all the regions of the universe . |
| 23 | Thus , the no-boundary proposal can account for all the complicated structure that we see around us . |
| 24 | In other words , oil rigs should account for all materials both used and produced during operations — and everything should be brought on shore for safe disposal . |
| 25 | In other words , oil rigs should account for all materials both used and produced during operations — and everything should be brought on shore for safe disposal . |
| 26 | Doris will account for all that in the script and he 'll fall into line the second he sees hard print . |
| 27 | The sea-launched ballistic missile system that we have been discussing does not account for all our nuclear arsenal and we must look at what is left . |
| 28 | These results indicate that a pretranslational mechanism contributes to the reduction in ATF1 protein levels observed during differentiation but may not account for all of the reduction . |
| 29 | But it does n't actually account for all of the overtime that we 've spent not directly anyway . |
| 30 | Mrs. Browne could n't account for that , unless it had been because of the wet weather . |