Example sentences of "it account for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fall in investment was so large that it was , by a considerable margin , the most important cause of the decline in aggregate demand , even though it accounts for a much smaller fraction of demand than consumer spending . |
| 2 | In America , says Mr Rathje , it accounts for a fifth of landfill space . |
| 3 | It accounts for the curious , rather comical way they have of standing perfectly upright and perfectly still while surveying their surroundings with a quick 240° swivel , like a furry periscope . |
| 4 | It accounts for the observations made . |
| 5 | It accounts for the way in which goods not merely reflect distinction , but are an instrument of it . |
| 6 | Though this notion of what I shall be calling ‘ discursive metaphor ’ may seem itself to be metaphoric , it is , as we shall see , a justified extension of the standard definition , as it accounts for the distinct use of figurality in Brooke-Rose 's fiction . |
| 7 | It accounts for the determination of the Jerusalem leaders that there must be no independent Samaritan church growing up without the age-old split from Judaism being healed ( Acts 8 ) . |
| 8 | It accounts for the decision of the Council of Jerusalem that the issue of circumcision must not be allowed to split the Church ( Acts 15 ) . |
| 9 | It accounts for the constant visits of the apostle to the Gentiles back to the Jerusalem church ( Acts 18:21 , 20:16 , 25:1 etc. ) , and his organisation of a great collection for their benefit , little though he could have approved of their theology ( Rom. 15:26 , I Cor. 16:1 , 2 Cor. 8:1ff ) . |
| 10 | In a diagram : There is a significant distinction in meaning between the two nevertheless , and it accounts for the use of the bare infinitive with the former . |
| 11 | It accounts for the differences between ( a ) and ( c ) and between ( b ) and ( d ) of Fig. 21.18 . |
| 12 | The atmosphere thus acts as a ‘ bottleneck ’ , and could have retained sufficient heat of formation for it to account for the present excess radiation . |
| 13 | Marx , however , realized that the need to make a living could never directly explain what human beings do , nor could it account for the complexity of human history itself . |
| 14 | Nor can it account for the way that unskilled workers in a northern seaside town could imagine , think and plan how to move into the boarding house business . |
| 15 | How adequately does it account for the development of economic policy and the poor performance of the British economy ? |