Example sentences of "account for [art] large [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shoplifters Thefts account for a large proportion of lost profits . |
| 2 | Official documents account for a large proportion of the primary sources . |
| 3 | These predisposed combinations are called co-occurrence relations or collocations , and account for a large proportion of English word combinations [ Smadja , 1989 ] . |
| 4 | Since elderly patients account for a large proportion of the increased prescribing seen in the past decade , any comparisons between data should take account of the age profile of practice populations . |
| 5 | Housing costs account for a large proportion of the RPI , and mortgage interest rates play a significant part in housing costs . |
| 6 | Right , I mean the exceptions to , to the sort of , that general sort of rule of thumb are enterprises where variable costs account for a large proportion of total costs , things like egg production , pig production , they tend to be very short run supply elasticities tend to be very high in those type of enterprises , primarily because most of the costs , alright , are tied up in , in variable costs . |
| 7 | Non-ferrous metals account for a large part of our overseas expenditure on raw materials . |
| 8 | BP and Shell account for a large slice of petroleum tax payments because they operate mature fields that have lost their tax shelter . |
| 9 | It is beyond dispute that they also account for a large number of tiny rabbits that are born in breeding chambers within burrow systems . |