Example sentences of "[be] accounted [prep] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( d ) Offices and employments As a matter of prudence , agreement should be reached at an early stage in the life of any firm whose partners , or some of them , are likely to find themselves appointed to some professional or public office as to : ( 1 ) whether remuneration from such offices should in principle be accounted for as part of the profits of the firm ( Clause 10.06 ) ; and ( 2 ) the amount of time any partner should be permitted to devote to such activities ( before his profit share suffers some downward adjustment ) . |
| 2 | The IASC exposure draft proposes that certain preferred shares , for example those where the holder has the right to require redemption , be accounted for as liabilities . |
| 3 | The [ draft ] FRS contains requirements for determining whether capital instruments should be accounted for as liabilities . |
| 4 | In the subsidiary 's financial statements the bonds should therefore be accounted for as debt . |
| 5 | Current high levels of unemployment can be accounted for without recourse to an explanation from technology ; consumer appetite for yet more goods and services still appears to be insatiable ; and even those economists who advance reasons why new technology might cause unemployment at some point in the future acknowledge that just at present the likelihood is that it will cause labour shortages rather than an overall labour surplus . |
| 6 | One major benefit immediately arising from these changes is that , as VAT will no longer need to be accounted for at UK sea or airports , EC deferment guarantees can be cancelled , creating an immediate cash flow improvement . |
| 7 | leases , which should be accounted for in accordance with SSAP 21 ; |
| 8 | Of those which are more than mundane , or artefacts of administrative or file-keeping practices , some can be accounted for in terms of plausible expectations of the organizational models , others only indirectly so , and yet others more difficult to explain . |
| 9 | In the moulding of form we saw that changes in shape of the embryo could be accounted for in terms of localized contractions and changes in cell adhesion . |
| 10 | Between 1952 and 1976 , more than two million urban jobs were lost that can not be accounted for in terms of national trends influencing unfavourable urban structures ( Danson , Lever and Malcolm , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | He suggests that to attribute extra suffering to one particular factor — age , length of unemployment , marital status , etc. — is too crude , as is the emphasis on individual responsibility ; the gross disparities between the numbers of jobs and the numbers of those seeking jobs can not be accounted for in terms of the individual psychological characteristics of the latter , nor can the rapid changes in the former . |
| 12 | This means that an ambiguous word form set in a disambiguating context may well carry more information than can be accounted for in terms of interaction between the context-independent meaning of the word form , and the semantic properties of the context . |
| 13 | Preteceille and Terrail ( 1985 ) provide a recent elaboration of this position , taking into account the various approaches emerging from cultural anthropology , but they retain the classic Marxist conception that modern ‘ needs ’ can only be accounted for in terms of the search by capital for greater profits , and that consumption is always subservient to production interests ( e.g. 1985 : 37–81 ) . |
| 14 | Thru subverts the literary theory which has as its premise that every narrative contains a meaning and that this meaning can be accounted for in terms of a universal ‘ elementary structure of signification ’ which posits woman as an object of exchange between men . |
| 15 | This supposition made the marriage bar popular in the press , and accounted for the weakness of an occupational group such as married women teachers , whose position could not be accounted for in terms of lower levels of skill or poor unionisation . |
| 16 | Some or all of the " convergence " could still be accounted for in terms of speaker 1 's stereotype of how speaker 2 " should " sound . |
| 17 | That the concept of a target real wage rate can be accounted for in terms of the behaviour of rational , maximizing agents is amply demonstrated in the works of Layard , of Carlin and Soskice ( 1990 ) and of the works of the new Keynesian school ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 18 | In addition , this article addresses the problematic notion of character " development " and argues that this may be accounted for in terms of a change in the conversational strategies used by a character , from which changes in attitude are inferable . |
| 19 | Robert Stephens showed in 1982 that a 2-year-old child in a high-density traffic area could ingest 54 per cent of its lead via the air ( some directly , but most from dust picked up on fingers and food ) , while 46 per cent would be accounted for in food and drink . |
| 20 | Attention is drawn to the statement in TR794 that ‘ the tax consequences of pensions can not be accounted for in isolation from potential deferred tax effects from other sources ' , as , for example , ‘ deferred tax arising from sources other than pensions may enhance the prospective recoverability of tax arising in respect of pension payments ’ . |
| 21 | When it has done its work there still remains the task of relating it to aspects of the context which are particular and can not of their nature be accounted for in advance . |
| 22 | Foreign exchange earnings were planned to total $90,000 million , with $83,000 million of this to be accounted for by earnings from oil and gas exports . |
| 23 | It causes the differences between individuals which can not be accounted for by intelligence or learning . |
| 24 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 25 | Changes in output which can not be accounted for by changes in the input of capital and labour are assumed to be accounted for by autonomous shocks in technology . |
| 26 | The differences between chimpanzees and us can not be accounted for by differences in these proteins . |
| 27 | For example , has argued that variation in virulence among a variety of human diseases may be accounted for by differences in the relationship between virulence and transmission . |
| 28 | It may be argued that the effects of physical-care experiences , though obscured later on by subsequent events , do at least have an impact at the time , and that much of the variation in infant behaviour can be accounted for by differences in training practices . |
| 29 | The average labour input for a part-time farm was 1,752 hours , or 0.75 of a man-year : some of this would be accounted for by contract work carried out by the machinery group . |
| 30 | Furthermore , even when examining recorded crimes only , changes in the figures may be accounted for by reasons other than the fact that the actual number of offences have changed , and there are a variety of other ways in which an increase in recorded crime can be accounted for . |