Example sentences of "this account [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’ |
| 2 | Child Benefit is the only benefit that carries automatic entitlement , and this accounts for the virtual 100% take-up of this benefit . |
| 3 | This accounts for the high turnover in membership … the recruit having seen emphasis laid on military activity is not prepared for the political activity which must come before it . |
| 4 | A registered charity , all dogs and prospective owners are vetted and this accounts for the high success rate but it must be kept in mind that people who need to find a new home for their dog usually have a problem , or a problem dog . |
| 5 | This accounts for the extraordinary difficulty inherent in formulating a theory of the novel . |
| 6 | This accounts for the attention he gave to the reserves , or ‘ spare men ’ as he liked to call them . |
| 7 | As criticism is the backbone of the scientific method , this accounts for the indentations permanently sunk into my chest . |
| 8 | This accounts for the smoothness , the lack of ‘ rupture ’ , end or radical beginning to history in the idealist dialectic . |
| 9 | Incidentally this accounts for the interminable debate about education , since objectives are not specifiable the content can only emerge as a consensus within the current zeitgeist . |
| 10 | This accounts for the small size of the Taos microkernel , which provides memory and process management , load balancing and precious little else . |
| 11 | This accounts for the small size of the Taos microkernel , which provides memory and process management , load balancing and precious little else . |
| 12 | The firmness of the Polychromos Pastels is due to their slightly higher than average binder content ; this accounts for the crayons ' notable strength and low dust factor , reducing accidental breakage and keeping the hands relatively clean during use . |
| 13 | They argue that these are two distinct roles which are subsumed within the OPCS survey and that this accounts for the discrepancies identified . |
| 14 | This accounts for the fact that on cloudy nights , when there are no stars to be seen , they tend to wander off course and may even get completely lost . |
| 15 | Probably this accounts for the greater part of the increase in sede vacante presentations made by the king , but he and his clerks pushed their claims to the limit . |
| 16 | The children live outside the immediate neighbourhood and this accounts for the difficulty in persuading parents to visit the school although great efforts have been made to improve upon this . |
| 17 | This accounts for the attempts of fiercely traditional societies , for instance those based upon fundamental islamic principles , to turn the clock back to the past . |
| 18 | This accounts for the strong sculptural feeling that characterizes so much of his early Cubist painting ; and , indeed , from the Negro period onwards , he was executing small experimental sculptures which relate directly to the contemporary paintings . |
| 19 | This accounts for the fact that the Aeschylean and Sophoclean heroes are never represented as individuals , but have an " ideal " character . |
| 20 | This accounts for the existence of funds borrowed from the Bank of England on the liabilities side of the balance sheet . |
| 21 | This accounts for the use of the to and not the bare infinitive here , the actual meaning of to in this type of use being of course the result of a final interception , as in the case of usage in the active . |
| 22 | It was therefore considered appropriate to assign responses such as these to the ‘ other ’ rather than the ‘ no ’ category and this accounts for the rather unusual statistics . |
| 23 | Stories for de Man are , like Rousseau 's parable and Proust 's image , metalingual allegories , and this accounts for the ease with which he passes from specific examples to general rules about language . |
| 24 | This accounts for the complexity of the document before the house . |
| 25 | Liquidity surpluses have become quite common and this accounts for the increased issue of Treasury bills of late . |
| 26 | This accounted for the distrust felt for Great Britain in more autocratic states . |
| 27 | Wainfleet had not avoided the slur that Wickham was giving more attention to his private life than his professional and this accounted for the lack of progress in apprehending MacQuillan 's killer . |