Example sentences of "accounting for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Ten months later the PJC-1 was test-flown — accounting for the odd designation .
2 The southwestern and south-eastern examples were apparently staggered slightly , accounting for the odd diversion of Ermine Street on the south-east .
3 We believe that thrombosis of leg veins or pelvic veins occurred intraoperatively , accounting for the early presentation in two of the patients .
4 The adult user , although accounting for the largest proportion of public library users , is an amorphous group not clearly definable unless the adults belong to the business community or to some temporarily associative grouping like adult education classes ( where indeed there may be some potential for formal user education ) .
5 The fast readers were more efficient than the slow readers in using grammatical predictability and in integrating different ideas in a sentence , but the factor accounting for the largest difference involved word-recognition processes .
6 As the water gets warmer , it is visualized that the structure becomes more random , thus accounting for the increased fluidity of the water at higher temperatures .
7 Accounting for the individual instruments is required by paragraph 19 if ( and only if ) the instruments are capable of being cancelled or redeemed independently of each other .
8 Seligman and Yellen take the theory further , in mapping the psychological reality of dreaming on to contemporary neurophysiological evidence of brain functioning during sleep , accounting for the emotional quality of dreaming as well as its visual content .
9 Sales in the six months to the end of February grew 11pc to £1,025m with prescription medicines accounting for the vast majority .
10 First-half sales grew 11 per cent to £1.025 billion , with prescription medicines accounting for the vast majority after over-the-counter sales were stunted by a ‘ poor coughs and colds season ’ .
11 But although God does have the role in Berkeley 's philosophy of accounting for the continued perceivability of real objects apart from our actual perception of them , it is not quite in the way we have just described .
12 Maestro has 11% , IEF and Oracle CASE 9% , Foundation and Compagnie Generale d'Informatique SA 's PacBase 8% , Verilog Inc 's Age 6% , Cadre Technolgies Inc 's Teamwork 5% , Bachman Information Systems Inc 's Bachman Designer , Intersolv Inc 's Excelerator and LBMS Inc 's Systems Engineer 3% , with others accounting for the remaining 22% .
13 The current trend towards ever higher emissions would be curbed by energy conservation ( accounting for around 43 per cent of the required reduction ) and a shift away from fossil fuels to renewable energy ( accounting for the remaining 57 per cent ) .
14 The superb quality of the ormolu by Pierre Gouthière was undoubtedly part of the vases ' attraction , also accounting for the healthy £72,000 ( $131,400 ; est. £25,000–35,000 ) paid for a pair of Louis XVI candlesticks attributed to this master ( lot 72 ) .
15 Accounting for the limited importance of class poses a critical test for Marxism 's credibility .
16 In summary , substituting depreciation accounting for the existing method would make revenue accounts more relevant for cost comparisons but less reliable for financial control .
17 In accounting for the curious distortion of the doctrine that has taken place in England , it is clear that this can not be explained by the mere presence of constitutional arrangements based on a separation of powers or it would be much more prevalent than it is .
18 We conclude that acute cigarette smoking causes a significant fall in gastric secretion ( Vg ) , and suggest that this results in raised gastrin values that have a tropic effect on the parietal cell , thereby accounting for the raised secretory capacity of chronic smokers .
19 Children were then allocated at random to the two remaining groups of adenoidectomy or no surgery in addition to unilateral insertion of ventilation tubes until June 1986 , thus accounting for the reduced numbers at follow up in the later years .
20 Thirdly , the model suggests one way of accounting for the peculiar nature of mathematics , computing and language , as the disciplines which constitute our stances in and towards the world , and for the way they relate to other disciplines , both servicing them at a mundane level and pervading them at a profound level .
21 But the notion of marked rheme may prove helpful in accounting for the communicative force of some utterances .
22 The difficulty of accounting for the historical demographic transition by conventional economic measures ( Cleland and Wilson 1987 ) , and the fall of fertility even in some Third World countries with little economic progress today ( Cleland 1985 ) , has revived interest in non-material motivations for childbearing .
23 If a common phenomenon , this goes some way towards accounting for the ingrained belief that such growth engendered serious economic and social problems , not least Carew 's conviction that the opening of tin workings impoverished a parish , whilst their discontinuance restored prosperity .
24 Pick Systems Inc has recognised for some time that it will have to concentrate on the database side of Pick 's personality in order to survive , but currently only around 40% of sales comes from Pick for Unix , with a few percent going to the MD-DOS implementation and the native Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation accounting for the biggest part of the business .
25 In discourse analysis , as in pragmatics , we are concerned with what people using language are doing , and accounting for the linguistic features in the discourse as the means employed in what they are doing .
26 ANSWER/ARGUMENT In accounting for the popular appeal of the Nazis , anti-semitism was not as significant as other factors , especially that of Hitler himself .
27 The report cites a ‘ strategy of genocide over [ sic ] the Bosnian Muslims ’ as accounting for the widespread looting and destruction of Muslim buildings .
28 Thus , if implemented , notwithstanding the other requirements of SSAP 15 , companies may use either the full provision or partial provision basis in accounting for the deferred tax implications of post-retirement benefits accounted for in accordance with SSAP 24 and UITF 6 .
29 SSAP 15 is amended by the insertion of an additional paragraph after paragraph 32 and before paragraph 33 as follows : ‘ 32A Not withstanding the other requirements of this Statement of Standard Accounting Practice , either the full provision basis or the partial provision basis may be used in accounting for the deferred tax implications of pensions and other post-retirement benefits accounted for in accordance with SSAP 24 ’ Accounting for pension costs ’ and UITF 6 ’ Accounting for post-retirement benefits other than pensions ’ .
30 How important were the depressed economic conditions and unemployment in accounting for the slow down in population growth ?
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