Example sentences of "[noun] account for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly in simple population terms the older age groups account for a disproportionate amount of health care expenditure . |
| 2 | AT&T Co has signed an agreement with the People 's Republic of China allowing it to supply personal telecommunications products with manufacturing partner S Megga International Holdings Ltd 's S Megga Telecommunications Ltd unit : the two have a memorandum of understanding with the China National Posts & Telecommunications Industry Corp to market and distribute AT&T-brand telephones , facsimile machines and other consumer items through hundreds of mainland outlets ; consumer products account for an estimated 20% of a total Chinese telecommunications market of $7,000m a year . |
| 3 | Equally depression of prostaglandin synthesis , by diminishing pain perception , could at least in part account for the high proportion of NSAID associated ulcers that are silent . |
| 4 | There would then be no minority interest figure in the profit and loss account for the current year , since the minority interest will also have been a debit balance last year end . |
| 5 | Whereas a comprehensive secondary school might offer some 30 subjects for all its pupils , and about a dozen subjects account for the great majority of A levels , the curriculum explodes in higher education , part of a post-school explosion even greater when one takes into account the vast number of technical and vocational courses that exist in non-advanced further education . |
| 6 | Final selection of the project , approval of the project for inclusion in the capital budget , setting of project implementation controls and post-audit review account for the remaining stages of the project cycle are covered in detail in chapter 5 . |
| 7 | Surface tension accounts for the spherical shapes of free-falling droplets of liquid . |
| 8 | According to a study made in 1989 by Professor Klaus Tiedemann of Freiburg University , fraud accounts for an estimated 10% of the EC budget , or about £6 billion a year . |
| 9 | Violence accounts for a large proportion of this increase . |
| 10 | The subcontractor will also have an increased administrative burden in providing annual accounts for the Inland Revenue , preparing estimates and calculating and monitoring payments to employees irrespective of whether they are self-employed or engaged on the PAYE scheme . |
| 11 | For microelectronics products transportation costs are minimal , labour accounts for a high proportion of total costs , and radically cheaper labour is available in foreign countries . |
| 12 | The buccaneer impulse revealed in these artless words accounts for the vigorous campaigns against other villains in other castles , though the immediate object is almost always the traditional one of help for a distressed damsel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Balcon 's strengthened determination to impose his own world-view on the studio 's pictures accounts for the declining ambition of Ealing 's production at this time . |
| 15 | The diversity of crime accounts for the unconvincing nature of attempts to explain it by all-encompassing theories . |
| 16 | This very strong assumption precludes any role for unobserved variables to account for a substantial proportion of population heterogeneity . |
| 17 | Although significant , their correlations were low , and the relationships accounted for a small proportion of the variance in the sign language performance scores . |
| 18 | The force of cohesion and tension in this column account for the upward rise of the water . |
| 19 | Tourists from other countries account for a great deal of revenue to some large hotels and therefore a watchful eye is kept on the figure , so that advertising campaigns can be planned to attract foreign visitors . |
| 20 | Sports shoes account for an increasing share of the total footwear market — about 23 per cent by value — but represent only ten per cent of Clarks ' 17 million unit business . |
| 21 | In summary , substituting depreciation accounting for the existing method would make revenue accounts more relevant for cost comparisons but less reliable for financial control . |
| 22 | Sexual selection under environmental constraints from a species habitat accounts for the adaptive radiation apparent in taxonomic groups . |
| 23 | For an atom with many electrons , we can still use the one-electron atom wave-functions as approximate descriptions of the behavior of the electrons , though we should modify the functions to account for the mutual repulsion of the electrons . |
| 24 | A number of hypotheses to account for an excess mortality have been proposed , including an effect of socioeconomic statis . |
| 25 | Anyway , that is the case and Gamow showed that the quantitative formalism accounted for the experimental results in a highly satisfactory manner . |
| 26 | Housing costs account for a large proportion of the RPI , and mortgage interest rates play a significant part in housing costs . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It also seems Auxetophones account for the large numbers of records made by both candidates for the American Presidential Election of 1908 , which were recorded by Victor , the Gramophone Company 's American partner . |
| 29 | Finally , the war accounts for the strategic orientation which we discuss in the following chapter . |
| 30 | In either case , this should allow the social services authority to hold the not-for-profit body to account for the proper use of public funds . |