Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] accounting for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 FRED 3 , Accounting for Capital Instruments ( see this issue , p 109 ) , contains the Accounting Standards Board 's proposals for accounting for all kinds of shares and debts .
2 The Montrose interest settled the question in this way through political pressure on the two candidates , for John Stirling was less than enthusiastic about sharing his responsibilities with Craigannet , and it was obviously hazardous to be joined in responsibility for accounting for public money with a colleague of whom the Stirling family had ‘ no good character ’ .
3 The paper addressed at some length methods of accounting for convertible debt that seek to address the hybrid nature of such debt by accounting separately for its debt and equity components , although it did not propose that such methods be required .
4 In particular the project compared two methods of accounting for unobserved effects ( marginal likelihood and information matrix corrections ) and achieved a computational advance in the first .
5 The use of the same subjects both when shadowing was and was not involved may also have altered this result by accounting for any individual anomalies .
6 The type of argument exemplified by Strawson 's claim undoubtedly has a strong intuitive appeal , and versions of this approach have , ever since Kant , been popular as a means of seeking to set limits to the use of causal explanations in accounting for human affairs .
7 The 1992 figures reflect a change in the method of accounting for certain deferred income tax benefits .
8 The 1993 figures reflect changes in the method of accounting for post-retirement benefits .
9 Respondents are asked to indicate the method of accounting for convertible debt which they consider should be required .
10 While the ‘ full accruals basis ’ , is undoubtedly prudent , we believe there is more commercial logic in accounting for such costs on an ‘ earnings ’ basis , which better reflects both the legal form and the substance of the transaction' .
11 The significance of the degree of urbanization in accounting for these changes can be seen at district level .
12 But in spite of their strength in accounting for historical continuities and pulling together many diverse elements Marxist analyses can not adequately account for the differences between capitalist health care systems and the details of their development , and the empirical evidence often contradicts the logic of the argument .
13 SECURITY : Another £1 million for police without accounting for specialist anti-terrorist units .
14 If the administration now seeks a coherent shopping-list of objectives , it has better find a way of accounting for these hidden benefits .
15 The simplest way of accounting for this is to assume other , unnamed children of Adam and Eve .
16 One partial solution to the problem of accounting for intra-regional cross-boundary flows would be to allocate resources to authorities taking no account of the cross-boundary flows and to leave them to take the responsibility of paying for their own residents treated elsewhere … there would be far more flexibility for the Area planners to arrange health care for their population .
17 Thus , the discipline remained dogged by the problem of accounting for literary value despite its professional insulation from exposure to the danger of degradations of value in the extra-academic worlds of the literary market-place , the school system , and mass culture .
18 The fact that the efficiency of rivets was in no way improved by capping them with precious metal provides another indication of the limitations of material factors in accounting for technical innovation .
19 For he denies the importance of local factors in accounting for local ( or urban ) politics , by arguing that local authorities are insulated from any electoral or public opinion influences ; that local councillors are in any case only involved in decision-making in the most fragmented way ; and that local policymaking is constituted by stereotyped responses with little distinctly local reference ( 1980b , p. 135 ) .
20 Arthur Kornhauser reports for his sample of Detroit car workers that the physical conditions of work appear ‘ to have little or no explanatory value in accounting for poorer mental health at lower versus upper job levels ’ .
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