Example sentences of "[adv] account for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 2 | Such partially compensatory mechanisms ( increase in the mitochondrial genome amount , and possible modulation of transcript half-life ) perhaps account for the discrepancy between heteroplasmy levels and equilibrium transcript concentrations . |
| 3 | This perhaps accounts for the expenditure on news media such as newspapers , teletext etc , and the continuous radio and television news programmes operated commercially in the USA , and planned for the UK. * the need to have an aesthetically pleasing environment , and to get rid of ugliness , pollution etc . |
| 4 | This perhaps accounts for the gout from which he suffered in 1771 and for which he collected prescriptions from friends . |
| 5 | SDLP lost a seat here as in Armagh which together accounts for the reduction in their representation by two seats as between the Assembly and the Convention . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There is some evidence of ribbon development along Watling Street on the Strood side of the Medway , but this suburb was probably not large enough to account for the size of the cemeteries , which date from the middle of the first century until at least the third . |
| 8 | That is n't enough to account for the difference between £27.25 to hire a Cessna 152 for an hour at Canterbury NZ and £76.85 for a similar machine at Cambridge UK ( just to take one example ) . |
| 9 | This group must have exerted a considerable attraction , enough to account for the growth of a small community containing shops , a bakery and blacksmiths . |
| 10 | A similar mechanism may perhaps account for the fact that some group-living animals drive sick or injured individuals out of the group . |
| 11 | There is no significant difference in long term survival between Child 's A and B patients except for a higher mortality in the first two months after surgery in Child 's B ( six of 19 v three of 24 ) ; this largely accounts for the difference in the overall survival between the surgery and sclerotherapy groups . |
| 12 | The fact that the Government disregarded our recommendations largely accounts for the debate that we are having today . |
| 13 | The slow time course and voltage-dependence of the NMDA receptor-mediated conductance makes it particularly susceptible to the hyperpolarizing influence of synaptic inhibition ; this susceptibility , together with the frequency-dependent depression of inhibition itself , largely accounts for the frequency-dependence of the induction of LTP . |
| 14 | This theory , in passing , exactly accounted for the advance of Mercury 's perihelion . |
| 15 | Even though full-time workers still account for the majority of service sector jobs , the growth of part-time jobs does raise a number of questions about what type of ‘ service-based ’ economy is emerging in the UK . |
| 16 | One of his successors , Lord Fisher , explained that gaiters were for the restriction of blood circulation and possibly accounted for the number of swollen heads among their wearers , but he added that , ‘ I myself find them a very comfortable kind of bondage ’ . |
| 17 | The nationalization programme quickly accounted for the Bank of England ( May 1946 ) , coal ( January 1947 ) , electricity ( April 1948 ) , gas and railways ( both May 1948 ) . |
| 18 | If we argue , nevertheless , that prestige models can still account for the trend to simplification and uniformity that we have revealed , we have to explain in this case why simplification should carry prestige . |
| 19 | Its beginnings partly account for the novel 's loose picaresque form , recounting a series of adventures of Mr Pickwick and his friends ( Snodgrass , Winkle , and Tupman ) , although the initiation of Mrs Bardell 's breach-of-promise action provides a continuing plot-interest , and Mr Pickwick is transformed from the conventional comic figure of the early chapters by his connection with Sam Weller . |
| 20 | Delays brought about by the teachers ’ industrial action in the summer of 1984 and normal staff turnover probably account for the remainder . |
| 21 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This partly accounts for the importance which farmers attach to cultivating their workers ' loyalty . |
| 24 | The splendid open aspect in all directions probably accounts for the building of Britain 's highest Iron Age hill fort whose ramparts encircled the plateau . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Organic material promotes this redox reaction , which probably accounts for the presence of uraninite in the black organic-rich shales of Sweden . |
| 27 | This potential for improving the quality of teaching and learning that underlies LMS probably accounts for the fact that few educationalists are opposed to it in principle . |
| 28 | The engine is the same size as in the old car , but the bodywork seems lighter and the shape is certainly smoother , so that probably accounts for the difference , ’ she says . |
| 29 | The view of to taken here also accounts for the impression of what Riddle ( 1975 : 467 ) calls " control " which one often feels with the to infinitive , i.e. the implication that the matrix event is responsible for or affects the complement event ( cf. the difference between Jane forgot to be cautious and Jane forgot that she was cautious ) . |
| 30 | And that of course also accounted for the fact that there was no book in Webbs ' window . |