Example sentences of "account for [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Final selection of the project , approval of the project for inclusion in the capital budget , setting of project implementation controls and post-audit review account for the remaining stages of the project cycle are covered in detail in chapter 5 .
2 The combination of fire and family probably account for the striking personalities of Ella Burrows and her daughter .
3 Until the FRC and its cohorts have made substantial progress in imposing uniformity in accounting matters , the profession will continue to be criticised because companies account for the same things in different ways .
4 It also seems Auxetophones account for the large numbers of records made by both candidates for the American Presidential Election of 1908 , which were recorded by Victor , the Gramophone Company 's American partner .
5 Three major causes account for the ensuing periods of upheaval which culminated in the establishment of a less formal relationship between the press and the political parties in the late 20th century :
6 Children were then allocated at random to the two remaining groups of adenoidectomy or no surgery in addition to unilateral insertion of ventilation tubes until June 1986 , thus accounting for the reduced numbers at follow up in the later years .
7 In discourse analysis , as in pragmatics , we are concerned with what people using language are doing , and accounting for the linguistic features in the discourse as the means employed in what they are doing .
8 This ‘ doctrine invented in Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century ’ was then exported to other parts of the world as a result of colonial expansion , and this — rather than any popular revolt against colonial rule — accounts for the nationalist movements of the twentieth century , led by nationalist intellectuals who are ‘ marginal ’ to their own societies .
9 It is the mobility of dislocations which accounts for the mechanical differences between metals and non-metals .
10 Figure 4.1(c) shows Tycho Brahe 's model , and you can see that this also accounts for the observed phases of Venus .
11 It accounts for the constant visits of the apostle to the Gentiles back to the Jerusalem church ( Acts 18:21 , 20:16 , 25:1 etc. ) , and his organisation of a great collection for their benefit , little though he could have approved of their theology ( Rom. 15:26 , I Cor. 16:1 , 2 Cor. 8:1ff ) .
12 The buccaneer impulse revealed in these artless words accounts for the vigorous campaigns against other villains in other castles , though the immediate object is almost always the traditional one of help for a distressed damsel .
13 Surface tension accounts for the spherical shapes of free-falling droplets of liquid .
14 Welch implies that to account for the apparent increases in zooplankton biomass over the past 30 years in the North Pacific without a marked concomitant increase in phytoplankton biomass ( as reflected by chlorophyll ) , phytoplankton productivity must have increased .
15 This excess was not significant and was insufficient to account for the increased rates of leukaemia in the area .
16 The role of political pressures such as these as a major influence upon the development of employers ' associations has been emphasised by Adams ( 1981 ) , who puts forward a theory to account for the broad differences between Western Europe and the USA both in the extent of organisation among employers themselves and in their behaviour towards trade unions .
17 In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time .
18 Sieving of this order of simplicity is not , on its own , enough to account for the massive amounts of nonrandom order that we see in living things .
19 This process was suggested to account for the unbalanced numbers of group I versus group II introns in mitochondria from various species ( 46 ) .
20 Various explanations have been advanced to account for the occupational rewards of professionals .
21 It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction .
22 If we are not going to appeal to the anthropic principle , we need some unifying theory to account for the initial conditions of the universe and the values of the various physical parameters .
23 It is not for me here to try to account for the common features of movements so different in nature as those we have mentioned .
24 Incomplete recording may partly account for the low rates of sickness absence among those in the highest grades , but it is unlikely to explain the large differences between other grades .
25 The differences in binding characteristics of the DNA binding domains of the homologous VZV 140k and HSV-1 Vmw175 IE proteins may account for the subtle differences in their regulatory activities in transfection assays and during virus growth in tissue culture .
26 This factor may also account for the repetitive waves in the transposed colon .
27 Compass orientation , we have seen , can account for the seasonal movements of birds and butterflies , which could find their way by just flying in a particular direction .
28 If the theory survives these tests , it will probably be some years more before we develop computational methods that will enable us to make predictions and before we can account for the initial conditions of the universe as well as the local physical laws .
29 However , for others the condition may present in a far more insidious and subtle manner , the constant yawning or sighing , the one deep breath in three , excessive sniffing , each of these may account for the reduced levels of carbon dioxide in the lungs , which over time leads to the ‘ chronic hyperventilation syndrome ’ .
30 It seems , therefore , that sample pore-space or matrix properties can not account for the different trends in electrical conductivity .
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