Example sentences of "[adv] accounts for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the decline in the growth rate of public service employment since the late 1970s , the public service sector still accounts for a significant proportion of total employment in the service industries . |
| 2 | The extent and quality of briefing possibly accounts for the overwhelming view of the assistants that their duties were ones which they had expected to be doing when appointed . |
| 3 | The replies suggested that the choice of consultant and search firm was initially quite random , which partly accounts for the unsatisfactory performance occasionally experienced . |
| 4 | The decline in the number of farm workers partly accounts for the peculiar age structure of the industry . |
| 5 | The notion of " betrayal " took hold on militants in the labour movement and partly accounts for the bitter resentment between the Left and most union officials during the 1930s . |
| 6 | Although the fossil record is much poorer , coevolution with the terrestrial angiosperms probably accounts for a major component of the radiation of insects and birds . |
| 7 | Macrophage death probably accounts for the cellular debris and cholesterol pools found in advanced lesions . |
| 8 | However this also accounts for the small size of the profession — there are at least 2000 qualified actuaries in the United Kingdom — and it 's relatively high status . |
| 9 | It also accounts for the extraordinary ability of shoppers to select from a huge array those goods most appropriate to themselves and their close friends or relatives . |
| 10 | No women voted at all , which mainly accounts for the low proportion . |
| 11 | This frequently accounts for an apparent lack of appetite of the power-tool . |
| 12 | In this case , it would seem natural to establish an accounting system that records the annual debts ( principal and interest ) , in which each year 's debt charges signal the property tax rate ( having taken account of rateable value ) and which subsequently accounts for the actual expenditure and actual revenues ( to determine whether next year 's taxes need adjusting ) . |