Example sentences of "[vb base] for [art] [adj] proportion " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 2 | Critics ascribed the rise in currency to the current trade surplus and high domestic interest rates rather than the impact of foreign investment funds , which account for a small proportion of equity investment . |
| 3 | This is because wines and beers account for a greater proportion ( 76% ) of all consumer expenditure on alcoholic drinks . |
| 4 | The three major schemes — the Library of Congress Classification Scheme , the Universal Decimal Classification Scheme and the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme — are treated in most detail , since they account for a good proportion of classification practice . |
| 5 | We have made real progress in developing our non-oil related businesses where sales now account for a good proportion of the Group 's turnover |
| 6 | In spite of knowledge of precautions , injuries from accidents during sport and leisure activities are common-place and account for a significant proportion of emergency admission to hospitals . |
| 7 | Scottish & Newcastle ( McEwans and Youngers beers , Newcastle Brown ) have a relatively low holding of tied public houses ( which are mainly in Scotland and the North East ) , but still account for a significant proportion of total beer sales , partly through sales to free houses and partly through the strong position of their brands in the off-licence trade . |
| 8 | Shoplifters Thefts account for a large proportion of lost profits . |
| 9 | Official documents account for a large proportion of the primary sources . |
| 10 | These predisposed combinations are called co-occurrence relations or collocations , and account for a large proportion of English word combinations [ Smadja , 1989 ] . |
| 11 | Since elderly patients account for a large proportion of the increased prescribing seen in the past decade , any comparisons between data should take account of the age profile of practice populations . |
| 12 | Housing costs account for a large proportion of the RPI , and mortgage interest rates play a significant part in housing costs . |
| 13 | Right , I mean the exceptions to , to the sort of , that general sort of rule of thumb are enterprises where variable costs account for a large proportion of total costs , things like egg production , pig production , they tend to be very short run supply elasticities tend to be very high in those type of enterprises , primarily because most of the costs , alright , are tied up in , in variable costs . |
| 14 | The latest published figures on the origins of TB infection in confirmed herd breakdowns in Great Britain show that south-west England has a much higher incidence of breakdowns and badgers account for a high proportion of them . |
| 15 | However , the bulk of LDCs have neither oil resources to export nor a diversified manufacturing base , and it is these countries that account for a high proportion of the world 's poor . |
| 16 | ( a ) 25% to 50% of library users use the catalogue ; ( b ) students account for the greatest proportion of the user population ; ( c ) the catalogue is used predominantly for known-item searching and use increases with users ' educational level ; ( d ) public library users do more subject searching than academic library users . |
| 17 | Teachers ' salaries account for the largest proportion of education spending in all types of school , though this varies from around 70% in primary and secondary schools to 59% in special schools . |
| 18 | Equally depression of prostaglandin synthesis , by diminishing pain perception , could at least in part account for the high proportion of NSAID associated ulcers that are silent . |
| 19 | There must , in fact , be few marriages in which temporary sexual difficulties do not arise and , as we have seen , at any one time they exist for a fair proportion of married adults . |