Example sentences of "[prep] account for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Source : Counties ' Annual Reports and Statements of Account for 1991 . |
| 2 | Investigation revealed the sale of at least 63 works in the past six months ; yesterday a source close to Charles Saatchi was prepared to concede that the volume of sales was higher than previously stated , and that the works disposed of account for some 10 to 12 per cent of the collection , which suggests a true figure of between 70 and 100 individual sales . |
| 3 | It becomes possible to think of accounting for all the changes in form of early sea-urchin development in terms of a changing pattern of cell contractions and cell contacts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The 1993 figures reflect changes in the method of accounting for post-retirement benefits . |
| 6 | The 1992 figures reflect a change in the method of accounting for certain deferred income tax benefits . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Respondents are asked to indicate the method of accounting for convertible debt which they consider should be required . |
| 9 | The simplest way of accounting for this is to assume other , unnamed children of Adam and Eve . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the administration now seeks a coherent shopping-list of objectives , it has better find a way of accounting for these hidden benefits . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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' . |
| 16 | That there should be about 400 woody species in a hectare of South American or Malaysian forest has led to problems not only in accounting for such diversity , the main subject of this chapter , but also in actually measuring the richness of such forests . |
| 17 | These claims , for accounting periods beginning on or after 2 October 1992 , may be made on a quarterly basis similar to that currently used in accounting for franked payments/ — investment income and interest paid/received under deduction of income tax . |
| 18 | Cultural and linguistic boundaries seem to be important in accounting for regional differences in the onset of fertility decline in different parts of Europe ( Lesthaeghe 1983 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | The significance of the degree of urbanization in accounting for these changes can be seen at district level . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | For example , the " going rate " in 1980 for the chairmen of the major industries ( gas , aerospace , shipbuilding , railways , coal , etc. ) was £48,000 , at a time when the top executives of BP , ICI and the like were earning between two and three times that amount , including bonuses but without accounting for various fringe benefits . |
| 26 | SECURITY : Another £1 million for police without accounting for specialist anti-terrorist units . |
| 27 | The Accounting Standards Board 's Urgent Issues Task Force has issued Abstract 6 on accounting for post-retirement benefits other than pensions , and the ASB has issued FRED 2 , Amendment to SSAP 15 Accounting for Deferred Tax . |
| 28 | After all , why should anyone balk at accounting for public money publicly ? |
| 29 | Not only will such a division of labour approximately halve the size of the lexicon ( by accounting for different interpretations of words by a general external principle ) , it will also immeasurably simplify the logical base of semantics — the word some can be equated directly with the existential quantifier in predicate logic ( while the reading " some and not all " taken as basic leads to serious internal contradictions : see Horn , 1973 and Chapter 3 below ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |