Example sentences of "[vb base] for [art] large [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shoplifters Thefts account for a large proportion of lost profits . |
| 2 | Official documents account for a large proportion of the primary sources . |
| 3 | These predisposed combinations are called co-occurrence relations or collocations , and account for a large proportion of English word combinations [ Smadja , 1989 ] . |
| 4 | Since elderly patients account for a large proportion of the increased prescribing seen in the past decade , any comparisons between data should take account of the age profile of practice populations . |
| 5 | Housing costs account for a large proportion of the RPI , and mortgage interest rates play a significant part in housing costs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Non-ferrous metals account for a large part of our overseas expenditure on raw materials . |
| 8 | BP and Shell account for a large slice of petroleum tax payments because they operate mature fields that have lost their tax shelter . |
| 9 | It is beyond dispute that they also account for a large number of tiny rabbits that are born in breeding chambers within burrow systems . |
| 10 | The net result is that enterprises with some form of linkage to the global market now account for the largest part of the global production structure — in raw materials , manufactures and services . |
| 11 | Key resources are technical personnel and aircraft spare parts which account for the largest share of the maintenance budget . |
| 12 | Teachers ' salaries account for the largest proportion of education spending in all types of school , though this varies from around 70% in primary and secondary schools to 59% in special schools . |
| 13 | There was already enough cover for a large number of sepoys to approach very close to the enclave without being detected . |
| 14 | Although Pittsburgh was severely hit by the decline in the steel industry , its tertiary and quaternary sectors were thriving and there were demands on the city to respond to and cater for the large number of firms locating and expanding their professional and managerial activities there . |
| 15 | Teachers will be in a position to form more accurate judgements about strengths and weaknesses of individual pupils in relation to attainment targets for history and will need to develop approaches which allow for a larger range of learning activities to be occurring than has , hitherto , been the case . |
| 16 | Compact hobs are about 550 × 450 mm ( 21 × 17in ) but if you have space , go for a large hob to take awkward-sized pans : you do n't have to limit yourself to a simple , square configuration there 's no reason why you should n't have two or three small hobs in different places . |
| 17 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 18 | If you work for a large company , with plenty of in-house techies to repair a computer if it goes wrong , or you are competent — and confident — enough to fix it yourself , then you could be justified in buying cheap and taking a risk . |
| 19 | Cuts in the amount of money spent on direct services to patients as opposed to buildings mean that in wards where few staff members care for a large number of patients standards of care fall well below tolerable levels . |