Example sentences of "have accounted for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a small firm of solicitors in a market town , conveyancing has accounted for about half of all fee income . |
| 2 | For a small firm of solicitors in a market town , conveyancing has accounted for about half of all fee income . |
| 3 | It may be afraid to annoy foreign network-operators with new local services and so jeopardise the chances of selling them equipment , which has accounted for much of AT&T 's recent growth . |
| 4 | Over the years Mr Slade , from his home at Weekfield Farm , Exton , Dulverton , Somerset , has accounted for an array of wins with Dutch Texel-sired entries in carcass competitions at national primestock shows . |
| 5 | Procedures can only be used effectively and efficiently in the context of a team structure which has accounted for the systematic management of top priorities and emergencies . |
| 6 | Accordingly of those who have increased spend on one particular area in the past year advertising has accounted for the lion 's share of growth . |
| 7 | Central NACAB office and the 22 area offices are responsible for this mammoth task , which until recently has accounted for one fifth of the NACAB budget . |
| 8 | John Doxsie , head of Staley 's sweetener division , says that in the three years since its launch , Krystar has accounted for 100 million lb of the annual five billion lb market for all sweeteners . |
| 9 | The idea that ‘ if it is n't sugary or starchy it ca n't be fattening ’ has accounted for the eating of many excess calories in restaurants . |
| 10 | Defence has accounted for 11% of UK manufacturing output and is one of the few sectors in which the country is still a world leader . |
| 11 | This strange kind of polygyny has accounted for at least nine different hypotheses attempting to explain the birds ' bizarre mating system . |
| 12 | Overtime pay has accounted for approximately 6 per cent of average earnings since the mid-1970s and this too varies with firm size due to differences in the length of scheduled working hours . |
| 13 | The investment weightings of the portfolio have continued to show an overwhelming bias towards publishing , which has accounted for 75% or over of the whole portfolio since June 1991 . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it is the growth of white-collar employment which has accounted for most of the expansion of the upper middle class . |
| 15 | Each club had one of these books which they called Grimoires , and –he loss or destruction of these Grimoires has accounted for the disappearance of other branches of The Hell Fire Club over the years . |
| 16 | As Figure 17.6 shows , wholesale funding has accounted for a growing share of the building societies ' total funding . |
| 17 | Within that static total , wine has accounted for an increasing share of total alcohol consumption and the amount of alcohol consumed in the form of spirits has fallen by 30% . |
| 18 | A criticism of these data was that the groups were not comparable and that this difference could have accounted for the results rather than the effects of therapy . |
| 19 | That belief must have accounted for the number of those wanting to see him and the fevered state of his waiting-room . |
| 20 | But the r and K lines were cultured at different densities , so that selection on life-history traits other than late fecundity may also have differed between them and may have accounted for the decline in late fertility of the r -line females . |
| 21 | For children born in the late 1950s and early 1960s this could have accounted for perhaps 5% of cases ; as Gardner et al showed it does not explain the increased incidence in Seascale . |
| 22 | Nor must one forget the imperial estates , which could have accounted for as much as fifteen per cent of the 1and , ii for which there is evidence in Britain . |
| 23 | However , the numbers were small and examination of the data showed that several of the Blacks were arrested on one day ( during riots ) and at least one was charged with robbery , probably with adults ; this one incident could have accounted for the larger percentage of Blacks going to the Crown Court . |
| 24 | He describes the toy drawer exactly , from the rubber sealing rings out of old tobacco tins , kept to make catapults ( which , with the string and the electric flex , were the principal binding agents in the mass ) , to the leaking paper bag of saltpetre ( which may have accounted for the choking smell ) . |
| 25 | This fantasy may have accounted for the arrogance of Conroy towards Queen Victoria . |
| 26 | Galleries had to be cleared 36 times , which must have accounted for some 35 minutes delay . |
| 27 | There were periods , notably 1720 – 40 and 1760 – 1770 , when home consumption increased more quickly than exports , but as Professor Cole has pointed out , exports over the century as a whole could well have accounted for 40 per cent of the increase in industrial output . |
| 28 | Yet for all his own pleasure at tracing this evidence , Dixon could see little in his report which might have accounted for the look of extraordinary triumph he had seen on Morse 's face when he reported in at 2.45 p.m . |
| 29 | Okay , so what acc what may have accounted for agriculture 's decline in relative terms in world trade ? |
| 30 | Now anything else that may have accounted for the erm , decline of agricultural trade , and the increase in manufacturing trade ? |