Example sentences of "accounts for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , it would seem natural to establish an accounting system that records the annual debts ( principal and interest ) , in which each year 's debt charges signal the property tax rate ( having taken account of rateable value ) and which subsequently accounts for the actual expenditure and actual revenues ( to determine whether next year 's taxes need adjusting ) . |
| 2 | This ‘ doctrine invented in Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century ’ was then exported to other parts of the world as a result of colonial expansion , and this — rather than any popular revolt against colonial rule — accounts for the nationalist movements of the twentieth century , led by nationalist intellectuals who are ‘ marginal ’ to their own societies . |
| 3 | Liquidity surpluses have become quite common and this accounts for the increased issue of Treasury bills of late . |
| 4 | Some hotels maintain ledger accounts for the regular business users and the account is sent direct to the companies which enables a speedy departure for the guest . |
| 5 | Murdock ( 1984:78 ) accounts for the general character of press and television coverage of the Toxteth riot in terms of ‘ the routine business of news production and the practical and commercial pressures which shape it ’ . |
| 6 | BCCI was associated with drug money laundering in the United States , and allegedly handled accounts for the Palestinian terrorist organization , Abu Nidal . |
| 7 | That accounts for the pinkish colour I found in the incisors of both remains . ’ |
| 8 | Macrophage death probably accounts for the cellular debris and cholesterol pools found in advanced lesions . |
| 9 | Sexual selection under environmental constraints from a species habitat accounts for the adaptive radiation apparent in taxonomic groups . |
| 10 | Child Benefit is the only benefit that carries automatic entitlement , and this accounts for the virtual 100% take-up of this benefit . |
| 11 | KPMG Peats has drawn members ' attention to the notes describing the arrangements with Ratners ' lenders in the group 's accounts for the 52 weeks ended 1 February 1992 . |
| 12 | The following excerpt is written in a Mass Observationer 's shorthand , which accounts for the bumpy grammar : |
| 13 | Though this notion of what I shall be calling ‘ discursive metaphor ’ may seem itself to be metaphoric , it is , as we shall see , a justified extension of the standard definition , as it accounts for the distinct use of figurality in Brooke-Rose 's fiction . |
| 14 | Although microvascular disease is the specific lesion usually associated with diabetes mellitus , atherosclerosis , particularly of the coronary vessels , accounts for the major morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients . |
| 15 | The replies suggested that the choice of consultant and search firm was initially quite random , which partly accounts for the unsatisfactory performance occasionally experienced . |
| 16 | Many writers take the view that it is the changing structure of spending , described immediately above , which accounts for the changing structure of employment in modern western society . |
| 17 | It may be modern unwillingness to accept that there were activities in ancient societies which we do not understand that accounts for the embarrassing silence of archaeology on the Andean lines and its stubborn resistance to a proper treatment of the ley theory in Britain . |
| 18 | No women voted at all , which mainly accounts for the low proportion . |
| 19 | To receive and consider the Directors ' Report and Accounts for the financial year ended 27th March 1993 . |
| 20 | The Plymouth yard 's company accounts for the financial year 1989/90 reveal the talks began after its managers anticipated a substantial cut in their future workload months before the Government announced the size of the Options for Change defence cuts . |
| 21 | Stress , in its many guises , accounts for the vast majority of ills in this world of speed , ‘ high-tech ’ and emotional unrest . |
| 22 | The extent and quality of briefing possibly accounts for the overwhelming view of the assistants that their duties were ones which they had expected to be doing when appointed . |
| 23 | It is probable that the university buildings were sited on the line of the geomantic Taurean figure and this pagan connection accounts for the violent suppression of the university by the Pope in the early seventh century . |
| 24 | Finally , the war accounts for the strategic orientation which we discuss in the following chapter . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Bone china tableware accounts for the greater part of output at the Wedgwood factory , where about one hundred designs are currently used in the production of this distinctively English ceramic ware . |
| 27 | The principle upon which it operates is that the pool is split into two components : the first is referred to as ‘ common funding ’ and accounts for the greater bulk of the pool ; and the second is known as ‘ further funding ’ and comprises an element of additional financing for those institutions which have a high historic unit cost . |
| 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 ) . |
| 29 | In Scale 2 Hilton talks of his understanding of the dynamic nature of God 's love working in man : The goal of contemplative life is to see this , a seeing which is a felt understanding of love , and Hilton accounts for the curious process by which a person grows towards this state as the interaction between the being of God — unformed love in which all men participate — and the response enabled by God to this dynamic potential at the heart of their being — love formed . |
| 30 | It also accounts for the extraordinary ability of shoppers to select from a huge array those goods most appropriate to themselves and their close friends or relatives . |