Example sentences of "accounts for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What accounts for the changes ? |
| 2 | This factor also accounts for the changes in the shares of imports taken from the Soviet Union and the developing countries in these years . |
| 3 | He 's one of Stoneley 's men , which accounts for the courtesy . ’ |
| 4 | They argue that these are two distinct roles which are subsumed within the OPCS survey and that this accounts for the discrepancies identified . |
| 5 | It is probably this which accounts for the menu price rises . |
| 6 | ( This factor accounts for the perpetuation of a large proportion of inaccurate and incorrect references , as any librarian working on inter-library loans will testify ) . |
| 7 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 8 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 9 | His daughter by his first wife , and only child , married into the Hulton family of Lancashire , which accounts for the survival of his papers in the County Record Office at Preston and in the British Library . |
| 10 | It is the dialectically functioning relationship between musicians and listeners which accounts for the state and the viability of the musical language at a given time , and for changes in the language over time . |
| 11 | Finally there is the flexible workforce of part-timers and temporary workers which has seen the biggest employment growth since the early 1980s , particularly in the service sector , and accounts for the majority of the growth in female employment . |
| 12 | Transport accounts for the majority of air pollution in Budapest : 98 per cent of carbon monoxide , 97 per cent of hydrocarbons and lead , 93 per cent of nitrogen oxides , 60 per cent of sulphur dioxide and 40 per cent of dust and soot . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , which may upset her , as you can imagine , although at least it fully accounts for the bleeding . |
| 14 | I then got involved with the company itself , preparing the end of year accounts for the audit and dealing with statutory matters for the group . |
| 15 | It accounts for the determination of the Jerusalem leaders that there must be no independent Samaritan church growing up without the age-old split from Judaism being healed ( Acts 8 ) . |
| 16 | Reliance on the tenant 's audited accounts for the purpose of calculating turnover may be unwise for the landlord , not because those accounts may be inaccurate but because they may not be settled until well after the end of the rental period in question . |
| 17 | The religious/municipal dichotomy , coupled with a lack of direct state provision of health services , probably accounts for the lack of a widespread deinstitutionalizing or care transfer movement . |
| 18 | The surface of Mercury , broadly speaking , can be divided into two types of terrain , heavily cratered terrain , which accounts for about 80% of the imaged hemisphere , and smooth plains , which accounts for the remainder . |
| 19 | Very probably this simple explanation accounts for the weakness of the majority of common glass . |
| 20 | It accounts for the observations made . |
| 21 | It was true self-education , and accounts for the enjoyment he still shares in the works of poets now regarded as passé . |
| 22 | The size of the dish or plate we use affects quantity as well , and this mainly accounts for the variation in quantities of breakfast cereals . |
| 23 | The high level of the hormone progesterone during pregnancy accounts for the increase in breast size . |
| 24 | Suppose we believe that the snow is what is muffling the sound of the traffic , or that flipping the switch made the windscreen wipers start to work , or that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 25 | To return to one of our initial examples , consider the belief that it is the position of the car 's heater that accounts for the driver 's left knee being warm . |
| 26 | It accounts for the way in which goods not merely reflect distinction , but are an instrument of it . |
| 27 | This perhaps accounts for the gout from which he suffered in 1771 and for which he collected prescriptions from friends . |
| 28 | What accounts for the differences from town to town , or the similarities between them ? |
| 29 | It accounts for the differences between ( a ) and ( c ) and between ( b ) and ( d ) of Fig. 21.18 . |
| 30 | While waiting for these elements to become commercially viable partly accounts for the delay , IBM also has reason to be cautious about allowing its mainframe customers to run existing transaction processing applications on smaller — and far cheaper — RS/6000s . |