Example sentences of "account [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diary entries can be coded in a wide number of ways allowing activities to be carefully tracked and even accounted for through the built-in billing system . |
| 2 | At the same time there was an increase in the proportion of the populations of most union republics that was accounted for by the titular nationality , an increase that was again most marked in Central Asia with its higher birthrates . |
| 3 | More than 60 per cent of Indian exports are accounted for by the two Tata outfits , Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS ) and Tata Unisys Ltd , which employ around 1,500 professionals in Bombay and Bangalore . |
| 4 | However , this study demonstrated that the increased prevalence of macrovascular complications was not accounted for by the increased frequency of cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension . |
| 5 | Nearly 90 per cent of the overall increase in the labour force of 3.1 million between 1971 and 1990 was accounted for by the increased participation of women . |
| 6 | Data for the USA , EEC and Japan all point to an increase in the share of manufacturing output accounted for by the largest firms ( figure 10.2 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Erm I think I 'm right in saying that the difference on a hundred percent migration between the House Builders Federation and the County Council , is accounted for by the technical differences that we 've talked about this morning , one thousand six hundred . |
| 9 | It is argued that this difference may be partially accounted for by the higher standard of living in Sri Lanka , but also that the motives and social composition of offenders in normal times were such that depressed economic conditions did not necessarily lead to substantial increases in criminal activities . |
| 10 | A large proportion of this increase was also accounted for by the new offence of failing to send children to school , which in 1920 accounted for nearly one-quarter of all criminal cases . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The bulk , the Scaevolan cases , seem to be most readily accounted for by the textual transmission of his works . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The percentage share of record sales in Britain accounted for by the large international companies is shown in Table 10.1 . |
| 15 | This trend is partly accounted for by the steady increase in cohabitation . |
| 16 | In fact the reduction in home trade is far bigger than the reduction paid out exports , and this is accounted for by the ten million reduction paid out now would give a right big fillip to trade . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This difference is accounted for by the younger average age of the snowball sample . |
| 21 | But even if we ca n't breed this beautiful little tetra in the vast numbers accounted for by the Far-Eastern fish farmers , we can still breed enough to have a fine shoal of Neons for our own tanks . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The richness of the Malesian flora , for example , may be partly accounted for by the Laurasian elements in the lowland rain forest and the Gondwana elements in the heath forest and in montane communities . |
| 26 | It is paralleled but surely not accounted for by the Greek practice of naked athletics ; but , whatever its origin , from now on it is a basic convention of art in Greece that males ( not females ) may be shown naked in any context . |
| 27 | The inconsistency of the results is partly accounted for by the different methods used for adjusting for other variables , such as disparities in size and monopoly power between control types , but clearly these studies do not bring a definitive answer much closer . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Importantly , the difference in concordance rates could not be accounted for by the different concordance rates for alcoholism alone . |
| 30 | This lower use of hospital inpatient facilities was not accounted for by the older age of the people in residential homes although fewer of all those aged 85 or more had spent time in hospital — 64 per cent against 80 per cent of those under 85 . |