Example sentences of "have accounted for the " in BNC.

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1 Procedures can only be used effectively and efficiently in the context of a team structure which has accounted for the systematic management of top priorities and emergencies .
2 Accordingly of those who have increased spend on one particular area in the past year advertising has accounted for the lion 's share of growth .
3 The idea that ‘ if it is n't sugary or starchy it ca n't be fattening ’ has accounted for the eating of many excess calories in restaurants .
4 Each club had one of these books which they called Grimoires , and –he loss or destruction of these Grimoires has accounted for the disappearance of other branches of The Hell Fire Club over the years .
5 A criticism of these data was that the groups were not comparable and that this difference could have accounted for the results rather than the effects of therapy .
6 That belief must have accounted for the number of those wanting to see him and the fevered state of his waiting-room .
7 But the r and K lines were cultured at different densities , so that selection on life-history traits other than late fecundity may also have differed between them and may have accounted for the decline in late fertility of the r -line females .
8 However , the numbers were small and examination of the data showed that several of the Blacks were arrested on one day ( during riots ) and at least one was charged with robbery , probably with adults ; this one incident could have accounted for the larger percentage of Blacks going to the Crown Court .
9 He describes the toy drawer exactly , from the rubber sealing rings out of old tobacco tins , kept to make catapults ( which , with the string and the electric flex , were the principal binding agents in the mass ) , to the leaking paper bag of saltpetre ( which may have accounted for the choking smell ) .
10 This fantasy may have accounted for the arrogance of Conroy towards Queen Victoria .
11 Yet for all his own pleasure at tracing this evidence , Dixon could see little in his report which might have accounted for the look of extraordinary triumph he had seen on Morse 's face when he reported in at 2.45 p.m .
12 Now anything else that may have accounted for the erm , decline of agricultural trade , and the increase in manufacturing trade ?
13 Sunderland failed badly to reproduce the form that had accounted for the division 's runaway leaders , Ipswich , by a comfortable 3–0 scoreline just 48 hours earlier .
14 What had accounted for the nine-day gap between this date and the night of his eventual departure for France ?
15 No doubt a lack of soap and water had accounted for the black faces , and not the pigment of their skin .
16 Even more important , the emperor 's participation , which had accounted for the selection of many eleventh-century popes ( and anti-popes ) had been totally rejected by 1179 .
17 Its failure and Philip 's subsequent marriage in 1196 to Agnes daughter of the count of Meran — a Rhinelander and supporter of Philip of Swabia after 1198 — had accounted for the presence of a legate in France at Innocent 's accession .
18 It postulates that agents will have an incentive to seek out information on the underlying ‘ correct ’ model of the economy which , in combination with adaptive expectations , had accounted for the systematic errors of the past .
19 Trading links have survived right-wing military coups in Argentina ( 1976 ) , Brazil ( 1964 ) , Uruguay ( 1973 ) and Bolivia ( 1971 , 1978 , 1979 , 1980 ) , countries which have accounted for the bulk of Soviet trade with Latin America over the past two decades .
20 It is these properties that have accounted for the explosive growth of the material in the past few years — at about 15 per cent per year in Continental Western Europe , according to Phil Bruce , ‘ Melinar ’ commercial manager in C&P Ltd .
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