Example sentences of "[modal v] account for [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 5 No subdivision of the X -axis should account for more than half the range of the X -values found in the data . |
| 2 | The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending . |
| 3 | For the first time agricultural spending , at ECU32,150 million ( compared with ECU35,350 million in 1992 ) , would account for less than half of expenditure . |
| 4 | Doris will account for all that in the script and he 'll fall into line the second he sees hard print . |
| 5 | In pursuit of this goal , the grammarian will concentrate on a particular body of data and attempt to produce an exhaustive but economical set of rules which will account for all and only the acceptable sentences in his data . |
| 6 | Since the developing world is growing faster , it is almost certain that by the turn of the century industrial countries will account for less than half of global output . |
| 7 | Yet it is very hard to believe that this sort of explanation can account for more than a handful of hoards , if any . |
| 8 | Food is the most important item in the expenditure of most households in the Third World and can account for more than three-quarters of the budget of a poor urban family . |