Example sentences of "[verb] accounted for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | It postulates that agents will have an incentive to seek out information on the underlying ‘ correct ’ model of the economy which , in combination with adaptive expectations , had accounted for the systematic errors of the past . |
| 4 | No doubt a lack of soap and water had accounted for the black faces , and not the pigment of their skin . |
| 5 | What had accounted for the nine-day gap between this date and the night of his eventual departure for France ? |
| 6 | It is these properties that have accounted for the explosive growth of the material in the past few years — at about 15 per cent per year in Continental Western Europe , according to Phil Bruce , ‘ Melinar ’ commercial manager in C&P Ltd . |