Example sentences of "accounts for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Following the buy-out , the bank will monitor its investment , examining monthly management accounts for compliance with the agreed financial covenants .
2 This would be possible as would be undertaking a much greater part of the year-end work and the preparation of the draft Annual Accounts for Audit .
3 The physicist tends to be unfavourably disposed toward systems whose beginning he can not understand , and this attitude accounts for part of the antipathy towards the concept of white holes .
4 This , however , only accounts for pollution of a ‘ known origin ’ .
5 Failure to adjust UK accounts for inflation can mean ( as in ICI 's case ) ignoring the distinction between profit and loss .
6 A fall in blood pressure is common in early pregnancy , and accounts for dizziness .
7 Answer guide : one or more owners ’ accounts for proprietorship , partnership , current and capital accounts , company reports governed by statute and subject to accounting standards and audit .
8 It also accounts for poetry being a more natural instrument of its literary expression than fiction or drama .
9 These are the summarized final accounts for housing :
10 He was engaged by B. to prepare his periodical accounts for VAT returns and to render income tax returns at the end of the year .
11 The appellant and Mr. Burt agreed that the appellant , for reward , would do Mr. Burt 's periodical accounts for VAT returns and render income tax returns at the end of the year .
12 He develops a theory which accounts for changing attitudes in terms of largely unexplained swings between ‘ matrist ’ and ‘ patrist ’ cultures , leaving us with a grandiloquent but unsubstantiated cyclical theory of social change .
13 However , such zeal does not fool a wise assessment system which accounts for quality of performance , and does not rely too much on facile numerical criteria .
14 This lesser development made it less strong , and — it is argued — accounts for industry 's earlier collapse beginning in the 1960s .
15 But open-bridging is a big business and now accounts for borrowing of about £430 million a year .
16 Besides its inherent flexibility — avoiding the need to file prospectuses and accounts for example — the attraction of borrowing in eurobond markets can be related , first , to desire on the part of borrowers to diversify sources of funding and , second , to desire to minimise uncertainty in international contracts by issuing claims denominated in the currency specified by the contract ( e.g. a UK firm issuing eurodollar bonds to finance trade or direct investment in the US ) .
17 More especially , what accounts for Labour 's abject and persistent failures ?
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