Example sentences of "[pron] account for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
| 2 | Critics ascribed the rise in currency to the current trade surplus and high domestic interest rates rather than the impact of foreign investment funds , which account for a small proportion of equity investment . |
| 3 | The following set of figures shows new fixed-sum and other retail credit as a percentage of the total volume of spending on clothing and shoes , durables ( including electrical goods and furniture ) and cars and motorcycles , which account for the great bulk of this type of credit : |
| 4 | Key resources are technical personnel and aircraft spare parts which account for the largest share of the maintenance budget . |
| 5 | Though this is good news for American and Japanese firms , who share a paltry 11% slice of the luxury market , it is disastrous for European companies which account for the remaining 89% of sales ( see chart on next page ) , but which sell nearly half of all their fancy products in America or Japan . |
| 6 | Owing to their deep-rooted hostility towards the very concept of involuntary unemployment and their a priori conviction that the labour market clears ‘ more or less continuously ’ , new classical macroeconomists are driven to look beyond this obvious explanation towards hypotheses which account for the acknowledged phenomenon of business cycles while at the same time preserving intact their beliefs in the robustness of all markets , including the labour market . |
| 7 | That year Nestlé — which accounts for a tenth of the Swiss stockmarket — opened its register to overseas investors , and a number of other companies have followed suit . |
| 8 | Devon county council , typical in the region , has the over-riding aim of protecting the natural heritage against the ravages of tourism ( which accounts for a large part of the county 's economy ) , the needs of the local industries and rising demand for retirement homes . |
| 9 | In America , which accounts for a third of all luxury purchases , shares of Tiffany & Co. , an upper-crust jeweller and a weathervane of the industry , fell on news of disappointing sales . |
| 10 | The last is the same as the one used for the popular Jazz series , which accounts for the familiar fit and feel . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is the mobility of dislocations which accounts for the mechanical differences between metals and non-metals . |
| 13 | The following excerpt is written in a Mass Observationer 's shorthand , which accounts for the bumpy grammar : |
| 14 | For the dreamer this illusion represents a deep and pleasurable necessity — which accounts for the well-known state of mind in which a dreamer can say , " It is a dream : I want to go on dreaming it . " |
| 15 | Companies certainly try to control demand , to channel it in known directions , but they are never sure of their market ; the best they can do is to offer a ‘ cultural repertoire ’ , to cover a spread of the likely possibilities in order to minimize the risk — and it is this which accounts for the colossal overproduction of records and the large number that make a loss ( see Laing 1985 : 9–10 , 20 ; Frith 1983a : 92–102 ; Denisoff 1975 : 92–4 ) . |
| 16 | So , by the time they went to Scotland , Boswell had visibly engaged with the project , which accounts for the everyday discipline he displayed in writing his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides . |
| 17 | The weakness of the Soviet position internationally reflected the weakness of the Soviet economy , which accounted for a small and diminishing share of world trade and provided no secure basis for the exercise of global influence . |
| 18 | The immediate causes of anger could be divided into the following categories , which accounted for the vast majority of incidents reported : |
| 19 | This gives the range of MLU scores which accounted for the middle two-thirds of the 123 children studied at each age level . |
| 20 | Was it the prosperity of an acquisitive society prepared to forsake children , or the depression which accounted for the inter-war population trends ? |
| 21 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 22 | This appears to be because institutional shareholders who account for the great majority of shareholdings on The Stock Exchange see themselves as managing a portfolio for which they buy and sell . |
| 23 | How do we account for the minimal pairs given in Chapter 9 ? |
| 24 | So how do we account for the dramatic increase in the average size of the remand population over the same period ? |
| 25 | As you can see from Table 16.2 , they account for a tiny fraction of total assets . |
| 26 | The three major schemes — the Library of Congress Classification Scheme , the Universal Decimal Classification Scheme and the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme — are treated in most detail , since they account for a good proportion of classification practice . |
| 27 | But among them , they account for the great majority of all innovation opportunities . |
| 28 | They accounted for a tiny fraction of that year 's death toll . |
| 29 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 30 | In America , says Mr Rathje , it accounts for a fifth of landfill space . |