Example sentences of "account [prep] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that continues during the 1990s , inflation averages 5% , and homes account for half the value of all bequests , Mintel thinks property transfers between generations will rise from perhaps £16 billion in 1990–91 to £25 billion in 1999–2000 . |
| 2 | the legs account for half the total height of the figure . |
| 3 | the legs account for half the total height of the figure . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The clearing house holds accounts for all the clearing members of the exchange . |
| 8 | Number ( ii ) accounts for all the Orpheus designs and , amongst others , the Bacchus mosaic from Stonesfield . |
| 9 | Private enterprise now accounts for half the economy and is expanding by 25% a year . |
| 10 | Neither of these events in themselves ( or even together ) seems significant enough to account for such a drastic change in policy direction . |
| 11 | What distinguishes them from secondary ( and tertiary ) qualities is that they are those features which corpuscles need to have in order to account for all the qualities ( primary , secondary , and tertiary ) of the substances which they make up . |
| 12 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 13 | Apart from these it is meant to account for all the reasons there can be for accepting authorities . |
| 14 | This powerful combination of compliance and belief is enough to account for all the hypnotic phenomenon , he and his colleagues argue . |
| 15 | That 's why people invent gods , even vicious , vengeful ones , to account for all the awful things that happen . ’ |
| 16 | The number of neutrons was not enough to account for all the heat ( a fact that they had been aware . |
| 17 | The idea that women are more conservative than men is manifestly inadequate to account for all the observed facts , at least in the cultures sociolinguists have studied most intensively , and it is rarely advanced nowadays as an explanation of sex differences . |
| 18 | Gas between the galaxies contains too few baryons to account for all the apparent mass but too many to be consistent with the simplest Big Bang models . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 21 | She wondered whether Barbara Coleman painted as fast , whether that accounted for all the unsold work around the room . |
| 22 | Ms Cann accordingly drew up a second deal , which accounted for all the different royalties ( television , merchandising and so forth ) separately . |
| 23 | Greater specialization within some regional police forces may account for such a strong discrepancy . |
| 24 | War , disease or climatic change could account for such a throwback . |
| 25 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 26 | The problem here is that while purse nets will account for all the rabbits leaving the netted holes — or those attempting to return via those holes — some rabbits will undoubtedly return to the warren via the unnetted holes . |
| 27 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 28 | Psychoanalytic theory reached a point where it could not account for all the observations made within the analytic setting , nor for the murdering impulses shown in mankind 's historical and cultural development . |
| 29 | These changes in metabolic rate affect our rate of physiological time , although they can not account for all the changes in time perception we experience as we age . |
| 30 | From a consecutive series of 50 referral letters sent by general practitioners in Sunderland to the local department of child psychiatry , 15 items of information were identified that could account for all the information contained in the letters . |