Example sentences of "account for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My various crops have competed not only with weeds but also with each other , a major factor in the profit and loss account for the plot . |
| 2 | The latissimus dorsi account for the very impressive ‘ V ’ shape of athletes and bodybuilders . |
| 3 | Your income and savings are not taken into account for the reduction scheme . |
| 4 | Account for the previous week , he is busy filling in the end-of-month returns required by Company Headquarters . |
| 5 | It is , of course , possible that factors specific to both economies account for the same movement . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The nature-versus-culture model of analysis was first developed within anthropology to help account for the universal subordination or secondary status of women in all societies at all times . |
| 8 | That , plus £250m of property writedowns — half in Britain and half in the United States — and another £100m of provisions account for the £450m fall in Heron 's value . |
| 9 | Differences in trim level account for the price structure : |
| 10 | In the same report ( UNEP 1982 : 265 ) , it is claimed that the total area being reclaimed by irrigation is probably about the same as is being abandoned through salinisation , alkalinisation and water-logging , and that these problems account for the loss of about 2–3 million ha of the world 's best agricultural land each year . |
| 11 | Its beginnings partly account for the novel 's loose picaresque form , recounting a series of adventures of Mr Pickwick and his friends ( Snodgrass , Winkle , and Tupman ) , although the initiation of Mrs Bardell 's breach-of-promise action provides a continuing plot-interest , and Mr Pickwick is transformed from the conventional comic figure of the early chapters by his connection with Sam Weller . |
| 12 | Several interrelated factors account for the development and growth of international banking in recent years : |
| 13 | Although some of this variation may be attributed to inherent reliability problems in the computation method or original poor data quality , other geological factors probably account for the greater part of the observed variation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Although the lines are exceedingly fine ( ie , just resolved ) at this distance , increasing the separation between source and observer can produce very strong lines which account for the glare I have noticed . |
| 16 | These are known as ‘ transferred cases ’ and account for the vast majority of appeals . |
| 17 | Key resources are technical personnel and aircraft spare parts which account for the largest share of the maintenance budget . |
| 18 | Various other tales account for the origin of the fairy godmother — one has it that , like the Italian witch Befana , a fairy godmother was actually looking endlessly for the Christ Child . |
| 19 | Assuming that the service life stays the same , the charge to the p&l account for the year ending 31 March 1993 would be £53m ( £50 + £30/10 ) and the prepayment in the balance sheet at that date would be £27m ( £50m — £53 + £30 ) . |
| 20 | You will have to apply para 41 if you are to equity account for the associate in accordance with standard practice . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Tunstall Group ( community alarm systems and hospital communications ) has not satisfactorily applied UITF 3 , Treatment of Goodwill on Disposal of a Business , in its p&l account for the year ended 30 September 1992 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There is , however , a specific exemption from the general requirement to spread variations from regular cost : ‘ Where a refund that is subject to deduction of tax in accordance with the provisions of the UK Finance Act 1986 , or equivalent legislation , is made to the employer , the enterprise may depart from the requirements of paragraph 80 and account for the surplus or deficiency in the period in which the refund occurs . ’ |
| 25 | Until the FRC and its cohorts have made substantial progress in imposing uniformity in accounting matters , the profession will continue to be criticised because companies account for the same things in different ways . |
| 26 | She is uninterested in fame ; she may attract it , however , and although she finds it annoying , she can turn it to good account for the work she is doing . |
| 27 | 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 : |
| 28 | Can you think of reasons in others which account for the way you react as you do ? |
| 29 | The Gaboon viper of Africa : its large venom glands account for the distorted arrow shape of its head . |
| 30 | The different playing philosophies that account for the North-South divide are emphasised by the views of two of the most successful coaches or recent times — Australia 's Bob Dwyer and Ian McGeechan of Scotland and the British Lions . |