Example sentences of "they [vb base] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They account for 41 per cent of the entire labour force , but 54 per cent of the temporary labour force . |
| 2 | Red dwarfs are faint , cool and small , and they account for 70 per cent of the Galaxy 's stars . |
| 3 | They are also disproportionately represented amongst a particular category of temporary workers , namely those working on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis , where they make up 64 per cent of the total , and amongst agency workers , where they account for 63 per cent of the total . |
| 4 | The SMMT estimates that they account for 40 per cent of all kits sold in the UK . |
| 5 | They account for 75.4 per cent to which may be added , proportionately , 10 per cent from those ‘ not known ’ . |
| 6 | In areas such as Europe and eastern Northern America , they account for 90 per cent of total sulphur dioxide emissions . |
| 7 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 8 | NATIONAL Power and PowerGen , the privatised power generators , are making changes in the way they account for direct sales to industrial companies to reduce the risk of discrimination and cross-subsidies . |
| 9 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 10 | Farmers whose turnover is below the registration limit , currently £36,600 a year , may use the scheme if they qualify for voluntary VAT registration . |
| 11 | In the main , staff have to complete a qualifying period of service ( often two or three years ) before they qualify for this . |
| 12 | Hundreds of applications have already been received by the Department from organisations which feel that they qualify for this largesse . |
| 13 | Any existing members who believe they qualify for this new rating category from the 1st May next should contact the Autocover staff at Frank Glennon Limited who will arrange for their premiums to be adjusted from their next renewal date . |
| 14 | They compensate for this by gaining water from their food both through the workings of their powerful kidneys , which extract much of the water from the urine , and by the condensation of water during breathing . |
| 15 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 16 | Primary elections are very popular with the television industry ; they make for good visuals , and they allow producers to focus ad infinitum on personalities rather than getting bogged down in the boring complexities of issues . |
| 17 | In May 1940 , the RCM general secretary wrote to the Chief Rabbi , pointing out ‘ that our Regional Committees are autonomous and neither they nor the committees under them like interference in the arrangements they make for religious instruction ’ . |
| 18 | The problem with them , however , is that it is not always clear what predictions they make for particular paradigms ( Alba & Hasher , 1983 ; Brewer & Nakamura , 1984 ) . |
| 19 | At an adjoining table , Sharon Dudley and David Wilson described themselves as consultant marketists — they sell discount cards on the basis that ‘ it gives people the stuff they want for three-quarters of the normal price and the shops would rather get 75 per cent of something than nothing in recessionary times ’ . |
| 20 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 21 | Official recognition of the importance of the cliff , in danger of eroding away , will give campaigners added weight as they press for greater coastal protection measures . |
| 22 | Law centres vary in the services that they provide for individual clients . |
| 23 | they provide for inter-disciplinary cooperation and a mixing of skills and expertise ; |
| 24 | It 's cross country ski-ing combined with rifle shooting ; they race for 12 miles and along the way have 4 targets to shoot at . |
| 25 | Far from it , what they say for public consumption appears to be at odds with what they are saying privately . |
| 26 | see what they say for ten minutes . |
| 27 | ‘ You can be certain they hope for that but I do n't believe for a moment they expect it . |
| 28 | First their report was published as a booklet , ‘ Hire purchase and Credit Buying ’ , which gave factual information about the various methods and the legislation controlling them , their advantages and disadvantages and the dangers they hold for thoughtless or inexperienced people ; and also a leaflet setting out some of the points to be taken into account when undertaking hire purchase . |
| 29 | The perceptions of their interests by the two parties may not always be entirely accurate , or they may change over time , but there can be no doubt of the importance they hold for local government structure . |
| 30 | " Were it not for what they receive out of the tax … they would not knit or spin for so small wages , as they receive for that work , because they would starve by it . " |