Example sentences of "this accounts [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child Benefit is the only benefit that carries automatic entitlement , and this accounts for the virtual 100% take-up of this benefit . |
| 2 | This accounts for the high turnover in membership … the recruit having seen emphasis laid on military activity is not prepared for the political activity which must come before it . |
| 3 | A registered charity , all dogs and prospective owners are vetted and this accounts for the high success rate but it must be kept in mind that people who need to find a new home for their dog usually have a problem , or a problem dog . |
| 4 | This accounts for the extraordinary difficulty inherent in formulating a theory of the novel . |
| 5 | This accounts for the attention he gave to the reserves , or ‘ spare men ’ as he liked to call them . |
| 6 | As criticism is the backbone of the scientific method , this accounts for the indentations permanently sunk into my chest . |
| 7 | This accounts for the smoothness , the lack of ‘ rupture ’ , end or radical beginning to history in the idealist dialectic . |
| 8 | Incidentally this accounts for the interminable debate about education , since objectives are not specifiable the content can only emerge as a consensus within the current zeitgeist . |
| 9 | This accounts for the small size of the Taos microkernel , which provides memory and process management , load balancing and precious little else . |
| 10 | This accounts for the small size of the Taos microkernel , which provides memory and process management , load balancing and precious little else . |
| 11 | The firmness of the Polychromos Pastels is due to their slightly higher than average binder content ; this accounts for the crayons ' notable strength and low dust factor , reducing accidental breakage and keeping the hands relatively clean during use . |
| 12 | They argue that these are two distinct roles which are subsumed within the OPCS survey and that this accounts for the discrepancies identified . |
| 13 | This accounts for the fact that on cloudy nights , when there are no stars to be seen , they tend to wander off course and may even get completely lost . |
| 14 | Probably this accounts for the greater part of the increase in sede vacante presentations made by the king , but he and his clerks pushed their claims to the limit . |
| 15 | The children live outside the immediate neighbourhood and this accounts for the difficulty in persuading parents to visit the school although great efforts have been made to improve upon this . |
| 16 | This accounts for the attempts of fiercely traditional societies , for instance those based upon fundamental islamic principles , to turn the clock back to the past . |
| 17 | This accounts for the strong sculptural feeling that characterizes so much of his early Cubist painting ; and , indeed , from the Negro period onwards , he was executing small experimental sculptures which relate directly to the contemporary paintings . |
| 18 | This accounts for the fact that the Aeschylean and Sophoclean heroes are never represented as individuals , but have an " ideal " character . |
| 19 | This accounts for the existence of funds borrowed from the Bank of England on the liabilities side of the balance sheet . |
| 20 | This accounts for the use of the to and not the bare infinitive here , the actual meaning of to in this type of use being of course the result of a final interception , as in the case of usage in the active . |
| 21 | It was therefore considered appropriate to assign responses such as these to the ‘ other ’ rather than the ‘ no ’ category and this accounts for the rather unusual statistics . |
| 22 | Stories for de Man are , like Rousseau 's parable and Proust 's image , metalingual allegories , and this accounts for the ease with which he passes from specific examples to general rules about language . |
| 23 | This accounts for the complexity of the document before the house . |
| 24 | Liquidity surpluses have become quite common and this accounts for the increased issue of Treasury bills of late . |