Example sentences of "[adv] account for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report points out that the sector is highly diversified : worldwide , the 10 largest companies only account for one third of production , while in Europe a large number of small and medium sized firms operate alongside 15 or so multinationals . |
| 2 | The amount of funds channelled towards buy-out/buy-ins has risen to 61 per cent of the total in 1989 , whereas that for start ups has fallen to only 6 per cent ( start-ups and other early stage only account for 15 per cent of total funds invested ) . |
| 3 | Although debt enquiries still only account for 6 — 7 per cent of total enquiries , the severity of the problems means that each case can take over 12 hours of interviewing and office work to handle . |
| 4 | As can be seen by figure 1 , the number of households headed by women in Latin America and the Caribbean , accounts for 25 per cent of the region 's households , and in Africa 17 per cent , whilst those of the developed regions only account for 20 per cent . |
| 5 | Second , we are sceptical about trade figures in general and , third , these figures only account for less than half Britain 's trade . ’ |
| 6 | Between them these items taken together account for 60 per cent of total expenditure . |
| 7 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp 's NTT Mobile Communications Network is to split itself into nine regional units : its present headquarters in Tokyo will become the group 's parent company , which will wholly own the equity of the eight subsidiaries , and the move is intended to improve efficiency and competitiveness in the fight with its biggest domestic rival Daini Denden Inc , which has no unit in Tokyo and Tokai area , which together account for half the population . |
| 8 | While France stands shoulder to shoulder with Germany , and the two countries together account for half the EC output , the exchange rate mechanism will survive , representing a beacon of hope for federalists who still see a common currency as the bridge across which Europe must pass to a federal future , and a baleful threat for the sovereign Britishers , who see it as a black hole which could draw EC members inexorably into the same destiny . |
| 9 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I shall arrange it , ’ said Adam , who had no intention of producing quarterly accounts for this inquisitive journalist . |
| 11 | Certainly its application within the large domestic market of the United States , which alone accounts for some 40 per cent of world air travel , can hardly be considered an unqualified success . |
| 12 | Statistics show that typically it only accounts for two per cent of all the verbal behaviours that take place in a conversation . |
| 13 | Manufacturing only accounts for five per cent of GDP , and the internal market is small and undeveloped . |
| 14 | In urban areas in Britain , over 37 per cent of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot , yet official data continue to stress that walking only accounts for three per cent of all mileage . |
| 15 | The second is that IQ , as measured by conventional intelligence tests , does not seem a sufficient explanation of it ; even though it might be a necessary accompaniment — and indeed might help entirely to account for some other forms of high intellectual achievement . |
| 16 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |
| 17 | Large as these numbers are , they are not large enough to account for all the particles that we seem to observe in strong and weak interactions . |
| 18 | Neither of these events in themselves ( or even together ) seems significant enough to account for such a drastic change in policy direction . |
| 19 | Some 287 kilos of tiger bones were recovered , enough to account for 20 animals , thought to have been poached from national parks . |
| 20 | The situation was particularly disturbing in the state of Bihar , which alone accounted for three-quarters of the latter group . |
| 21 | This is certainly true , but this explanation might only account for some 4 or 5 per cent or NGU cases . |
| 22 | Piano keys and name seals alone accounted for 80 tonnes of ivory . |
| 23 | The aircraft industry alone accounted for one-third of expenditure . |
| 24 | 189 was clearly nowhere near enough , and Fredericks alone accounted for 105 of the reply . |
| 25 | According to one report , by the Earthscan organisation , routine ballast-dumping alone accounted for 400 000 tonnes of oil pollution a year by the end of the 1970s . |
| 26 | The EC and member countries together accounted for 51 per cent of the capital , with France , West Germany , Italy and the United Kingdom each providing 8.5 per cent . |
| 27 | In Britain , part-time , temporary , and self-employed workers already account for two out of every five workers ( see page 29 ) . |
| 28 | 's ( 1965 ) three dimensions and in a survey of heads of household in Illinois , found that socioeconomic status generally accounted for more of the rural-urban variation than either occupation or residence , and then rejected Bealer 's approach when they argued that future work should concentrate on single-dimension variables . |
| 29 | They may thus account for observable clinical manifestations . |
| 30 | In the last 15 years there has been an enormous increase in the volume of frozen chips being consumed , even although straight-cut chips for frying still account for more than half the chips bought . |