Example sentences of "this [noun] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This link accounted for Osprey 's directors ' interest in Crane Holdings which was part of the same network . |
| 2 | However , the European Commission has estimated that for most countries this budget accounts for between 10 and 20 per cent of GDP ( Evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities , 1987/8 HL 72 , p. 17 ) . |
| 3 | This duality accounts for the generation and alternation of opposites throughout nature , light and dark , moving and still , male and female . |
| 4 | This figure accounts for almost 5% of Grampian 's total exports , and is significantly higher than the national figure of 2% . |
| 5 | The force of cohesion and tension in this column account for the upward rise of the water . |
| 6 | The physicist tends to be unfavourably disposed toward systems whose beginning he can not understand , and this attitude accounts for part of the antipathy towards the concept of white holes . |
| 7 | Piecemeal reclamations of this type account for the intricacy of the system of banks protecting the low-lying pastures surrounding the Wash . |
| 8 | Even in the first year , when fewer than a third of Leeds primary schools were involved in PNP , this requirement accounted for 760 teacher-days ; but from year to year , as more and more schools became involved and as roles proliferated , the investment of time increased until in the fourth year it stood at 2,035 teacher-days . |
| 9 | In the first quarter of 1992 , as diesel car sales reached a record 11.35 per cent , Citroen , Peugeot and Rover models with this engine accounted for just over half of the 46,114 diesel models sold in the U.K. |
| 10 | It was curious that grass production did not warrant a high response when this crop accounted for 83% of the arable land . |
| 11 | ‘ She is of the opinion that the loneliness of this place accounts for my condition . |
| 12 | The top third of this group accounts for 80 per cent of the market . |
| 13 | The study reckons this factor accounts for between a quarter and a half of IPOs ' underperformance . |
| 14 | ( This factor accounts for the perpetuation of a large proportion of inaccurate and incorrect references , as any librarian working on inter-library loans will testify ) . |
| 15 | Amongst these are the Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at Paris , and the terrible collision on the ground at Tenerife between Pan American and KLM Boeing 747s which to this day accounts for the greatest number of fatalities in a single accident . |
| 16 | Trivers ( 1971 ) used essentially this argument to account for the evolution of ‘ reciprocal altruism ’ , in which animals cooperate only with those that cooperate with them . |
| 17 | This arrangement accounts for the bulk of the hotel 's travel agent bookings . |
| 18 | Net reserves in this area account for 27 per cent of LASMO 's reported commercial UK reserves . |
| 19 | The eastern Alps have been suggested as an example of such ‘ flake tectonics ’ since this mechanism accounts for the existence of a ‘ platelet ’ in the Alps which is much thinner than normal and dips in a southerly direction ( Fig. 3.20(B) ) . |
| 20 | This diversity accounts for the mutually contradictory complaints that are frequently voiced by village locals : that the newcomers come in and try to run everything or that they take no part in village life and are not ‘ involved ’ . |
| 21 | In the US alone there are 300,000 deaths annually ; this number accounts for over half of all cardiovascular mortality . |
| 22 | This feature accounts for the ‘ quasi-document of title ’ nature of the air waybill . |
| 23 | This angle accounts for the lag of the rotor behind the phase equilibrium position as the load on the motor increases . |
| 24 | Mr Key said payments to authors this year accounted for 83% of PLR expenditure , as funds for information technology were needed . |
| 25 | Rumours of this purpose account for the early popularity of the French ; they had come to support the ‘ Desired One ’ . |
| 26 | Diamond combines strong bonds with simple stable structure : this recipe accounts for its remarkable strength as a cutting tool , and its resistance to extremes of temperatures and pressure . |
| 27 | This market accounts for up to 70 per cent of the ECM 's gross ( total ) size . |
| 28 | This fact accounts for the continued autonomy not only of the Buid but of many other shifting cultivators and hunter-gatherers in Africa and Asia ( Gibson , in press ) . |