Example sentences of "[adv] account for [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The omission of the words is , however , sufficiently accounted for by the fact that they were part of the definition of the trespassory taking which it was a principal object of the [ Theft Act 1968 ] to abolish . |
| 2 | If such crimes really are entirely accounted for by the possession of abnormal motives propelling their possessors into crime regardless of any other considerations , then it does not really possess the features that usually class actions as ‘ crimes ’ ; rather , it would belong in some alternative category , such as mental illness . |
| 3 | An organism 's phenotype was thus believed to be almost entirely accounted for by the sum of these two apparently independent variables . |
| 4 | These are not accounted for in the calorie figures . |
| 5 | Perhaps , it was surmised , another star had a near-miss with the sun , and supplied additional energy not accounted for in the angular momentum theory . |
| 6 | Keeling quoted donor agency sources as saying that at least $3,000 million was not accounted for in the recently published annual report of the Central Bank of Nigeria and speculating that the money had been spent on costly commitments such as Nigeria 's participation in the ECOWAS peace-keeping force in Liberia , the holding of the Organization of African Unity summit in Abuja in June , and the start of work on construction of an aluminium smelter . |
| 7 | A palindrome arises for reasons that have nothing to do with transformational grammar ; puns undoubtedly perform some sort of linguistic operation even though they are not accounted for in the grammars ; etymology reveals monsters more absurd than the most ignorant folk-etymology can imagine . |
| 8 | This lower use of hospital inpatient facilities was not accounted for by the older age of the people in residential homes although fewer of all those aged 85 or more had spent time in hospital — 64 per cent against 80 per cent of those under 85 . |
| 9 | However , this study demonstrated that the increased prevalence of macrovascular complications was not accounted for by the increased frequency of cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension . |
| 10 | It is paralleled but surely not accounted for by the Greek practice of naked athletics ; but , whatever its origin , from now on it is a basic convention of art in Greece that males ( not females ) may be shown naked in any context . |
| 11 | was largely accounted for in the lower ranks . |
| 12 | The increased sensitivity of cattle stealing to hardship may be largely accounted for by the fact that at this time more cattle stealing was carried out casually , mostly for immediate consumption as beef . |
| 13 | Although at first sight , therefore , it seems that there was a strong age-related gradient in the overall net income of elderly people , the effect was largely accounted for by the dissolution of married-couple households when husbands died , leaving widows significantly worse off not only than married couples , but also than men living on their own . |
| 14 | However , most of the current distribution is probably accounted for by the ageing of local populations with migration being of secondary importance . |
| 15 | This trend is partly accounted for by the steady increase in cohabitation . |
| 16 | The increasing irrelevance of legislative norms , the disappearance of the inner club and the triumph of individualism in the Senate are partly accounted for by the decline of the influence of the South in the chamber , although changing leadership styles have also had an effect . |
| 17 | The inconsistency of the results is partly accounted for by the different methods used for adjusting for other variables , such as disparities in size and monopoly power between control types , but clearly these studies do not bring a definitive answer much closer . |
| 18 | The richness of the Malesian flora , for example , may be partly accounted for by the Laurasian elements in the lowland rain forest and the Gondwana elements in the heath forest and in montane communities . |
| 19 | A large proportion of this increase was also accounted for by the new offence of failing to send children to school , which in 1920 accounted for nearly one-quarter of all criminal cases . |
| 20 | Their numbers are known and supposedly accounted for by the vergers . |
| 21 | Understanding the legal effect of payments is important because of the need to make sure that VAT is correctly accounted for to the Customs and Excise and to understand the circumstances in which it may be reclaimed . |
| 22 | It is argued that this difference may be partially accounted for by the higher standard of living in Sri Lanka , but also that the motives and social composition of offenders in normal times were such that depressed economic conditions did not necessarily lead to substantial increases in criminal activities . |
| 23 | Diary entries can be coded in a wide number of ways allowing activities to be carefully tracked and even accounted for through the built-in billing system . |
| 24 | The bulk , the Scaevolan cases , seem to be most readily accounted for by the textual transmission of his works . |
| 25 | A good example of the unacknowledged influence of the model may be found in the ready adoption by many sociolinguists of the notion of prestige to explain the patterns of sociolinguistic stratification which have become so familiar ; the persistence and spread of low -status forms is then accounted for by the notion of covert prestige ( Trudgill 1983a , chapter 9 ) . |
| 26 | Part of that increase is doubtless accounted for by the contempt with which banks have treated many of their customers . |
| 27 | As a non-physicist I have often wondered if the difference in photon energy ( E' — E = hf' — hf ) of the shifted and unshifted light could be wholly accounted for by the effect of the surface velocity ( v ) acting together with the particle equivalent mass of the photon . |