Example sentences of "accounted [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They accounted for a tiny fraction of that year 's death toll . |
| 2 | Until recently Germany accounted for a fifth of its total sales . |
| 3 | He wants the Slavs , who accounted for a quarter of the 4.4 million population , to stay , to help keep the wheels of industry and the civil service running . |
| 4 | At a time when the company was obliged to draw on its total shareholders ' equity to pay its ( reduced ) dividend , the installation of a new mainframe computer system linked to New York ( and horribly slow to use according to London experts ) accounted for a sizeable percentage of last year 's $7 million auction operating costs . |
| 5 | But as well as having a novel structure , the theory has an explanatory power quite unlike that of classical economics : for while the latter attempted to explain economic systems as a response to individual needs , Marx accounted for a much wider range of social phenomena in terms of the part they played in a totality . |
| 6 | Andy Warhol 's ‘ 210 Coca-Cola bottles ’ ( lot 46 ) accounted for a large slice of those figures . |
| 7 | For the first time , items from the former East Germany accounted for a large proportion of the lots on offer . |
| 8 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 9 | The weakness of the Soviet position internationally reflected the weakness of the Soviet economy , which accounted for a small and diminishing share of world trade and provided no secure basis for the exercise of global influence . |
| 10 | The USA accounted for a dominant two-thirds share of 1991 arms sales to the Middle East , the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) stated in March . |
| 11 | Thus reduction in pH of saliva from pH 8.2 to 7.2 accounted for a 2.2% reduction in amylase detection ( p=0.004 ) . |
| 12 | Hitherto Switzerland accounted for a third of all hazardous waste imported into Britain . |
| 13 | However , he accepted that Digital also had to consider the effect on its market credibility if it pulled the plug on manufacturing operations in Britain , which accounted for a quarter of the firm 's European sales . |
| 14 | Was it the prosperity of an acquisitive society prepared to forsake children , or the depression which accounted for the inter-war population trends ? |
| 15 | In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king . |
| 16 | The UK accounted for the largest downward revision for GDP in 1991 , from a 0.5 per cent rise to a 2 per cent fall , noted Freeman . |
| 17 | When Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister , in 1937 , he had as the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , a very able minister of considerable repute , which fact probably accounted for the fact that he remained as Foreign Secretary despite the clear differences of opinion that became apparent between them . |
| 18 | The immediate causes of anger could be divided into the following categories , which accounted for the vast majority of incidents reported : |
| 19 | Analyses of voting patterns revealed that it was primarily the racist demagoguery against foreign nationals living in West Germany that accounted for the party 's victories . |
| 20 | This is what accounted for the enormous popularity of Julius Chongo 's Pocheza M'madzulo , especially in Lusaka and in Eastern province . |
| 21 | This gives the range of MLU scores which accounted for the middle two-thirds of the 123 children studied at each age level . |
| 22 | This accounted for the distrust felt for Great Britain in more autocratic states . |
| 23 | In the cases of both Chesterton and Williamson it was the combination of the lingering after-effects of the war and the transposition of supposed aesthetic values to the political sphere , together with personal traumas of varying intensity , which accounted for the turn to fascism . |
| 24 | As has been pointed out , several important nazi ideas come directly from English sources , and it was the use of such indigenous ideas rather than the copying of a successful foreign movement which accounted for the ideology of English racial nationalism . |
| 25 | Now that MIPS Technologies Inc is in its back pocket , Silicon Graphics Inc has gone ahead and acted on its promise to service MIPS ' OEM business which accounted for the bulk of its revenues . |
| 26 | In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property . |
| 27 | And that of course also accounted for the fact that there was no book in Webbs ' window . |
| 28 | Jagging the ball disconcertingly both ways , he accounted for the experienced Wessels , Kirsten and Kuiper , then Snell , in an morning spell which read 11–7–8–4 , before Ambrose administered the coup de grâce . |
| 29 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 30 | It was Daedalian blood that accounted for the native handiness and wit and industry of the people of Ninfania , the father had always thought . |