Example sentences of "accounted for [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , it could turn out that a difference is best accounted for not by the first social variable that you quantify ( for example , social class ) , but by a second or third one ( for example , sex of speaker ) . |
| 2 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 3 | In short , the overall apparent relationship between income and age is accounted for primarily by the changing proportions of types of household with age . |
| 4 | It is certainly not to be accounted for simply by the clerical abuses of the time . |
| 5 | The content of the act and its successful passage can be accounted for only by the sustained and effective political activity of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria , one of the two wealthiest , and probably the best organised , health charity in Australia . |
| 6 | The 1940s saw a very slight increase , accounted for entirely by the post-war ‘ baby boom ’ . |