Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] account for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This very strong assumption precludes any role for unobserved variables to account for a substantial proportion of population heterogeneity . |
| 2 | The buccaneer impulse revealed in these artless words accounts for the vigorous campaigns against other villains in other castles , though the immediate object is almost always the traditional one of help for a distressed damsel . |
| 3 | The force of cohesion and tension in this column account for the upward rise of the water . |
| 4 | The federal government 's 75 per cent share in Usiminas was sold for US$1,170 million , mostly to Brazilian investors ; the share of foreign capital accounted for a disappointing 5.9 per cent of the total . |
| 5 | Indeed it is his support for Mosley , expressed on many occasions , which goes some way to account for the continuing neglect of his work by much of the literary establishment . |
| 6 | In fact , at one stage in this study our thoughts ran on catastrophes of a biblical kind and we pictured half-seriously a universal conflagration to account for the black band . |
| 7 | As the social services account for a substantial part of public spending , cuts affected a wide range of services . |
| 8 | Rumours of this purpose account for the early popularity of the French ; they had come to support the ‘ Desired One ’ . |
| 9 | This fact accounts for the continued autonomy not only of the Buid but of many other shifting cultivators and hunter-gatherers in Africa and Asia ( Gibson , in press ) . |
| 10 | Anyway , that is the case and Gamow showed that the quantitative formalism accounted for the experimental results in a highly satisfactory manner . |
| 11 | Official documents account for a large proportion of the primary sources . |
| 12 | Whereas a comprehensive secondary school might offer some 30 subjects for all its pupils , and about a dozen subjects account for the great majority of A levels , the curriculum explodes in higher education , part of a post-school explosion even greater when one takes into account the vast number of technical and vocational courses that exist in non-advanced further education . |
| 13 | We have already seen how the naive inductivist accounts for the explanatory and predictive power of science . |
| 14 | If we are not going to appeal to the anthropic principle , we need some unifying theory to account for the initial conditions of the universe and the values of the various physical parameters . |
| 15 | Since the patients in Newcombe and Ratcliff 's study sustained penetrating missile wounds of the brain whereas those of Hécaen and Sauguet suffered from naturally occurring lesions it is possible that aetiological differences account for the discrepant findings . |
| 16 | These theorists accounted for the high rates of crime found in the broken-down inner-city areas in terms of ‘ social disorganisation ’ . |
| 17 | Non-ferrous metals account for a large part of our overseas expenditure on raw materials . |
| 18 | ‘ We have no viable theory to account for the supposed phenomena and no technology at all , ’ Dr Blackmore stressed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Three major causes account for the ensuing periods of upheaval which culminated in the establishment of a less formal relationship between the press and the political parties in the late 20th century : |
| 21 | However , it will be evident from the figures that sole practitioners account for a disproportionate percentage of the responses in relation to the percentage of firms in private practice as a whole which they constitute ( 63% and 37% respectively ) . |
| 22 | In either case , this should allow the social services authority to hold the not-for-profit body to account for the proper use of public funds . |
| 23 | Widowed lone mothers account for a small and declining number of lone parent families . |
| 24 | Seminar participants learnt that in Hong Kong , political inertia accounts for the limited public influence in cable TV ( CATV ) , while in Korea , the government is keeping tight control on its own CATV networks . |
| 25 | Final selection of the project , approval of the project for inclusion in the capital budget , setting of project implementation controls and post-audit review account for the remaining stages of the project cycle are covered in detail in chapter 5 . |
| 26 | It is probable that the university buildings were sited on the line of the geomantic Taurean figure and this pagan connection accounts for the violent suppression of the university by the Pope in the early seventh century . |
| 27 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 28 | With back titration , swallowed saliva accounted for a median 17% of alkali within the oesophagus whereas refluxed gastric alkali contributed 1.0% . |
| 29 | Large-scale natural resource-based industrial ( RBI ) projects such as steel , aluminium and petrochemical plants accounted for a significant fraction of these investments . |
| 30 | That increase accounts for the large sales increase , exaggerated by the initial stocks sold to franchises . |