Example sentences of "account for the [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Account for the previous week , he is busy filling in the end-of-month returns required by Company Headquarters .
32 One notable attempt to differentiate between political institutions within a post-colonial state , and account for the relative power of the bureaucracy by reference to the class structure of the colonial legacy , is Meillasoux 's ( 1970 ) study of Mali .
33 It is , of course , possible that factors specific to both economies account for the same movement .
34 Until the FRC and its cohorts have made substantial progress in imposing uniformity in accounting matters , the profession will continue to be criticised because companies account for the same things in different ways .
35 We believe that methodological limitations of the lactulose hydrogen breath test may explain the present results and account for the reported controversies .
36 The nature-versus-culture model of analysis was first developed within anthropology to help account for the universal subordination or secondary status of women in all societies at all times .
37 And if the murderer were an outsider , then how account for the locked front door , the intact alarm system , and the fact that Lorrimer must have let him in ?
38 ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’
39 Owing to their deep-rooted hostility towards the very concept of involuntary unemployment and their a priori conviction that the labour market clears ‘ more or less continuously ’ , new classical macroeconomists are driven to look beyond this obvious explanation towards hypotheses which account for the acknowledged phenomenon of business cycles while at the same time preserving intact their beliefs in the robustness of all markets , including the labour market .
40 It also seems Auxetophones account for the large numbers of records made by both candidates for the American Presidential Election of 1908 , which were recorded by Victor , the Gramophone Company 's American partner .
41 Three major causes account for the ensuing periods of upheaval which culminated in the establishment of a less formal relationship between the press and the political parties in the late 20th century :
42 The Gaboon viper of Africa : its large venom glands account for the distorted arrow shape of its head .
43 Ten months later the PJC-1 was test-flown — accounting for the odd designation .
44 The southwestern and south-eastern examples were apparently staggered slightly , accounting for the odd diversion of Ermine Street on the south-east .
45 We believe that thrombosis of leg veins or pelvic veins occurred intraoperatively , accounting for the early presentation in two of the patients .
46 The adult user , although accounting for the largest proportion of public library users , is an amorphous group not clearly definable unless the adults belong to the business community or to some temporarily associative grouping like adult education classes ( where indeed there may be some potential for formal user education ) .
47 The fast readers were more efficient than the slow readers in using grammatical predictability and in integrating different ideas in a sentence , but the factor accounting for the largest difference involved word-recognition processes .
48 As the water gets warmer , it is visualized that the structure becomes more random , thus accounting for the increased fluidity of the water at higher temperatures .
49 Accounting for the individual instruments is required by paragraph 19 if ( and only if ) the instruments are capable of being cancelled or redeemed independently of each other .
50 Seligman and Yellen take the theory further , in mapping the psychological reality of dreaming on to contemporary neurophysiological evidence of brain functioning during sleep , accounting for the emotional quality of dreaming as well as its visual content .
51 Sales in the six months to the end of February grew 11pc to £1,025m with prescription medicines accounting for the vast majority .
52 First-half sales grew 11 per cent to £1.025 billion , with prescription medicines accounting for the vast majority after over-the-counter sales were stunted by a ‘ poor coughs and colds season ’ .
53 But although God does have the role in Berkeley 's philosophy of accounting for the continued perceivability of real objects apart from our actual perception of them , it is not quite in the way we have just described .
54 Maestro has 11% , IEF and Oracle CASE 9% , Foundation and Compagnie Generale d'Informatique SA 's PacBase 8% , Verilog Inc 's Age 6% , Cadre Technolgies Inc 's Teamwork 5% , Bachman Information Systems Inc 's Bachman Designer , Intersolv Inc 's Excelerator and LBMS Inc 's Systems Engineer 3% , with others accounting for the remaining 22% .
55 The current trend towards ever higher emissions would be curbed by energy conservation ( accounting for around 43 per cent of the required reduction ) and a shift away from fossil fuels to renewable energy ( accounting for the remaining 57 per cent ) .
56 The superb quality of the ormolu by Pierre Gouthière was undoubtedly part of the vases ' attraction , also accounting for the healthy £72,000 ( $131,400 ; est. £25,000–35,000 ) paid for a pair of Louis XVI candlesticks attributed to this master ( lot 72 ) .
57 Accounting for the limited importance of class poses a critical test for Marxism 's credibility .
58 In summary , substituting depreciation accounting for the existing method would make revenue accounts more relevant for cost comparisons but less reliable for financial control .
59 In accounting for the curious distortion of the doctrine that has taken place in England , it is clear that this can not be explained by the mere presence of constitutional arrangements based on a separation of powers or it would be much more prevalent than it is .
60 We conclude that acute cigarette smoking causes a significant fall in gastric secretion ( Vg ) , and suggest that this results in raised gastrin values that have a tropic effect on the parietal cell , thereby accounting for the raised secretory capacity of chronic smokers .
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