Example sentences of "[be] accounted [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The payment will be costed gross and any retention or cash discount will be accounted for in the financial accounts . |
| 2 | We have seen how our feeling that a particular stretch of language in some way hangs together , or has unity , ( that it is , in other words , discourse ) , can not be accounted for in the same way as our feeling for the acceptability of a sentence . |
| 3 | Some of the difference may be accounted for by the greater number of court sites and judicial officials in proportion to population and area in Sri Lanka than in India . |
| 4 | Most notable was the small but marked increase in delivery time between 13.15 and 14.00 which can probably be accounted for by the gradual build-up of demand at a time when lunchtime rosters have effectively halved the number of bookfetching staff on duty , while a similar increase in delivery times for books requested between 16.45 and 17.00 ( when demand is falling ) is probably attributable to the change in shift and reduction in bookfetching staff which occurs at 17.00 . |
| 5 | Although these figures suggest some recent increase , as des Forges and Harber record only about 40 for the period 1950 to 1960 , this would easily be accounted for by the great increase in regular observations at the coast . |
| 6 | But this neglects the force of Althusser 's emphasis on Marxism as itself a theoretical practice with its own history of epistemological self-correction , a possibility derived from the work of the mathematician Jean Cavaillès , who stressed the degree to which the history of mathematics , particularly set theory , could be accounted for by the dialectical development of the concept . |
| 7 | The average correlation observed , 0.32 , between a subject 's estimates and the true figures is only slightly lower than the correlation of 0.4 reported in Brehmer ( 1987 ) and any difference could be accounted for by the different range of actual accident statistics used in the two studies . |
| 8 | Importantly , the difference in concordance rates could not be accounted for by the different concordance rates for alcoholism alone . |
| 9 | And the same change throughout the industry can be accounted for by the functional fact that only those firms which made this change would have survived the competition . |
| 10 | Unfortunately Freud 's evidence for his propositions was somewhat indirect , being derived from the ‘ memories ’ of adult patients , whose difficulties and characteristics he believed could best be accounted for by the libidinal theory . |
| 11 | This can partly be accounted for by the social milieu in which many of them are set , that stereotypically ‘ Cowardian ’ world of elegant hotel bedrooms where the cocktail shaker is always within reach . |
| 12 | The smaller reduction in the Medical Research Council 's trial may be accounted for by the high rate of drop outs and deviations from the protocol . |
| 13 | Most adenocarcinomas of the oesophagus , however , arise in CLO that is already established and the disparity between incidence and prevalence can be accounted for by the high proportion of the population with unrecognised disease , up to 20 times that of those detected . |
| 14 | Although much of its growth may be accounted for by the rapid increase in headhunting in financial services in the mid-1980s , the firm 's capability and success in this market stemmed from its secure reputation established over the preceding decade . |