Example sentences of "account for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Today US-registered vessels make up only one-third of the fleet , and account for less than 16 per cent of the total number of dolphin deaths .
2 Yet foreign banks still account for less than 3% of Italian banking assets .
3 More than 40 per cent of the world population lives in China , India , Eastern Europe and South America , which account for less than 10 per cent of our sales today .
4 Meanwhile , LIFFE still trades derivatives in US T-bonds and eurodollars , but these account for less than 5 per cent of the exchange 's total business .
5 The national brewers account for more than 90 per cent of total lager production .
6 Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers .
7 The largest 25 producers account for more than 50% of the area planted and it is their names which are most often seen on merchant 's lists .
8 Hence , Britain 's five biggest supermarket groups now account for more than 60 per cent of all grocery sales .
9 While exchanges will show the fastest growth at 18% , commercial banks and capital markets still account for more than 75% of total spend .
10 Own-label products now account for more than 20% of sales in some European supermarkets ( see chart ) .
11 The latest crime figures show that burglaries , theft and handling stolen goods now account for more than 90 per cent of the total .
12 Will my right Hon. Friend confirm that the authority 's detailed proposals will be published before the summer , and will those proposals include advertising campaigns on tobacco and alcohol abuse , which account for more than 100,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom ?
13 Grain Whisky : United Distillers ' grain whisky distilleries account for more than one third of total industry production .
14 With sterling now at a considerably lower rate against the Deutschmark , French franc , the currencies of the Benelux countries and the dollar , which together account for more than 50 per cent of Scotland 's export trade , the impact will be significant .
15 America is the biggest single air-travel market , accounting for more than 40% of all the world 's airline passengers .
16 It states , ‘ … grassland accounting for more than 70% of the total utilised agricultural area , a stocking rate of less than 1 livestock unit ( 1 cow over two years old or 6.6 sheep ) per forage hectare and farm rents not exceeding 65% of the national average … and a labour income per man — work unit exceeding 80% of the national average ’ .
17 Exports to the EFTA countries are also significant , now accounting for more than 10% of Grampian exports .
18 With nationalized industries accounting for more than 25 per cent of the country 's non-housing investment ( compared with less than 10 per cent in the United States and Japan ) , the efficiency of the public sector had a considerable impact throughout the whole of the economy .
19 The US was the largest investor in Scotland , accounting for more than 44 per cent of electronics jobs .
20 Power stations and road traffic are the major sources of nitrogen oxide , together accounting for more than 80 per cent of the UK total .
21 Syntactic structure accounts for well and ill-formedness .
22 Oil accounts for more than 50% of the gross domestic product and more than 90% of export revenue .
23 But such projects and a successful geothermal programme which now accounts for more than 10% of Kenya 's electricity will do little to reduce the oil dependence which helps keep Kenya and many other African countries caught in an energy trap .
24 According to some estimates , ICI accounts for more than 20% of civilian R&D in the UK .
25 Production now accounts for more than five per cent of the national pig kill .
26 That managed competition may increase in time but it is stretching credibility a long way to suggest that a company that accounts for more than 96 per cent .
27 This means , in a year , car crime accounts for more than five million pounds in Milton Keynes .
28 It should be pointed out , however , that the results of the Forster and Olbrei experiment do not provide evidence for a constant effect of syntactic analysis since a correlation coefficient of.65 accounts for less than 40 per cent of the variance in processing times .
29 Rape , for example , accounts for less than 1.5 per cent .
30 For example , needs to account for why if the sentence P and Q is true , then so is the sentence Q and in order to do that it assigns a certain structure , for example as on the handout in my assigned structure and brackets P Q. Erm anyway erm it just has and has a separate particle operating on two distinct sentences that are not ordered syntax needs to account for the well-formedness of the structure , sorry P and Q. The ill-formedness of P Q and the similar grouping of and with or that is in English between sentences and where you can find one and find another but not with , not you do n't say John loves Mary not Peter loves Jill .
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