Example sentences of "account for [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole of the accumulation , he said , was accounted for to the fraction of one farthing . |
| 2 | This increase is practically all accounted for through the provision of public funds , making legal aid the fastest growing social service in Britain . |
| 3 | Freud 's own answer to this question was that , in part , it may be accounted for by the supposition of an ‘ archaic heritage ’ of unconscious memories which go back to primeval times . |
| 4 | ‘ The decline and discontinuance of the use of the surfboard as civilization advances , ’ wrote Hiram Bingham , ‘ may be accounted for by the increase in modesty , industry and religion , without supposing as some have affected to believe , that missionaries have caused oppressive enactments against it . ’ |
| 5 | The stranger 's haste was in part accounted for by the spear in his chest . |
| 6 | Although the parish register was badly damaged by fire , there still exists the Bishop 's transcript of that register in which Leapor 's baptism is recorded on 16 March 1721 ( the apparent discrepancy is accounted for by the change from old to new style calendars in 1752 ) . |
| 7 | However , most of the current distribution is probably accounted for by the ageing of local populations with migration being of secondary importance . |
| 8 | The expenditure was to be accounted for by the master in his receipt book and under no circumstances was any officer to receive a gratuity . |
| 9 | A good example of the unacknowledged influence of the model may be found in the ready adoption by many sociolinguists of the notion of prestige to explain the patterns of sociolinguistic stratification which have become so familiar ; the persistence and spread of low -status forms is then accounted for by the notion of covert prestige ( Trudgill 1983a , chapter 9 ) . |
| 10 | If the twenty-year gap in output apparent in the manuscript is real , it may be accounted for by the rise in influence of those hostile to the complex , polyphonic settings of Scottish church music , one of whom named the chapel royal in Stirling as an example . |
| 11 | If such crimes really are entirely accounted for by the possession of abnormal motives propelling their possessors into crime regardless of any other considerations , then it does not really possess the features that usually class actions as ‘ crimes ’ ; rather , it would belong in some alternative category , such as mental illness . |
| 12 | The level of investment by the BEA rose from only £92 millions in the financial year 1948/9 to £125 millions in 1950/1 and £196 millions in 1954/5 ( only about two-fifths of this overall rise being accounted for by the fall in the real value of the pound ) . |
| 13 | Surely these crimes are accounted for by the existence of ‘ special ’ motives ? |
| 14 | The majority of this expenditure was accounted for by the Department of Trade and Industry 's regional policy measures , which have concentrated aid on supporting investment in traditional , capital-intensive manufacturing industry . |
| 15 | Depressingly , there was no evidence that this happened much in language work at University level , even in in-service and BEd work ( though this could be accounted for by the pressure of time on PGCEs , and the tendency to teach general research methods at Masters and Diploma levels ) . |
| 16 | Part of that increase is doubtless accounted for by the contempt with which banks have treated many of their customers . |
| 17 | While it was obviously impossible to claim that literary art still sprang from the general community , this could be accounted for by the gulf between literature and life caused by the processes of industrialization . |
| 18 | A reduction of 7 per cent in total emissions last year was accounted for by the drop in industrial production , rather than stricter pollution controls , the report said . |
| 19 | An organism 's phenotype was thus believed to be almost entirely accounted for by the sum of these two apparently independent variables . |
| 20 | The increasing irrelevance of legislative norms , the disappearance of the inner club and the triumph of individualism in the Senate are partly accounted for by the decline of the influence of the South in the chamber , although changing leadership styles have also had an effect . |
| 21 | The disparity in the results revealed by these and various other surveys is in part accounted for by the use of different definitions of ‘ owner control ’ . |
| 22 | Although at first sight , therefore , it seems that there was a strong age-related gradient in the overall net income of elderly people , the effect was largely accounted for by the dissolution of married-couple households when husbands died , leaving widows significantly worse off not only than married couples , but also than men living on their own . |
| 23 | As a non-physicist I have often wondered if the difference in photon energy ( E' — E = hf' — hf ) of the shifted and unshifted light could be wholly accounted for by the effect of the surface velocity ( v ) acting together with the particle equivalent mass of the photon . |
| 24 | Part of the fall is accounted for by the pattern of transactions between Britain and the EC , but part must also reflect the cost of British borrowing from overseas investors . |
| 25 | The salary of the ophthalmic photographer , depreciation of the van and camera , running and servicing costs for the van , and the cost of the film and its processing were all accounted for in the calculation of the cost of the service . |
| 26 | This type of linguistic material is sometimes described as ‘ performance-data ’ and may contain features such as hesitations , slips , and non-standard forms which a linguist like Chomsky ( 1965 ) believed should not have to be accounted for in the grammar of a language . |