Example sentences of "accounts for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This accounts for a quarter of all divorces .
2 It is the biggest manufacturer of mechanical engineering products in the EC with 44% of the total output — a disproportionate share as Germany only accounts for a quarter of total EC output .
3 According to international marketing manager Lorraine Cade , the UK accounts for a quarter of Tia Maria 's world-wide sales and is its most important and most mature European market .
4 AFTER DARK TIA MARIA Tia Maria : UK accounts for a quarter of its global sales
5 The campaign makes a direct link between global warming and the consumption of energy in the home , which accounts for a quarter of the emissions of carbon dioxide .
6 Motor transport accounts for a quarter of Britain 's emmissions of carbon dioxide , a major 'greenhouse' gas , and recently , the Secretary of State for the Environment , John Gummer , said that motor cars have
7 Buy-out/buy-in business now accounts for a quarter of investments made by venture capital funds , whereas the number of startups account for only approximately 13 per cent ( Table 7.11 ) .
8 Nevertheless , a significant upswing is again shown in the school sector , which accounts for a 17% increase .
9 By sharp and crucial contrast , the metals trade , which accounts for a fraction of the AFBD 's membership and income , is directly represented by at least three members — the triumphant Mr Gaunt , Phillip Robinson from Metallgesellschaft , and Francis Holford from Rudolf Wolff .
10 ( c ) Overseas Central Banks and International Institutions — the Bank holds accounts for a variety of international financial organisations , including the World Bank , the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , and organises international transactions that originate from intervention in exchange markets .
11 The slowdown in the world economy and higher prices in Eastern Europe because of subsidy cuts have both squeezed demand , and the Gulf crisis accounts for a loss of some 350,000 tonnes of sales to Iraq and Kuwait over the past six months .
12 Perhaps the main weakness in the text , which accounts for a number of others , is the methodology employed .
13 What accounts for the changes ?
14 This factor also accounts for the changes in the shares of imports taken from the Soviet Union and the developing countries in these years .
15 He 's one of Stoneley 's men , which accounts for the courtesy . ’
16 They argue that these are two distinct roles which are subsumed within the OPCS survey and that this accounts for the discrepancies identified .
17 It is probably this which accounts for the menu price rises .
18 ( 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 ) .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 ‘ Yes , which may upset her , as you can imagine , although at least it fully accounts for the bleeding .
26 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 .
27 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 ) .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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