Example sentences of "account for [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relevant subsidiary undertakings joining the group are accounted for on the acquisition basis . |
| 2 | They are accounted for on the accruals basis . |
| 3 | The whole of the accumulation , he said , was accounted for to the fraction of one farthing . |
| 4 | Deferred tax should be accounted for to the extent that it is probable that an asset or liability will arise . |
| 5 | Deferred taxation is accounted for to the extent that a liability or an asset is expected to crystallise . |
| 6 | Understanding the legal effect of payments is important because of the need to make sure that VAT is correctly accounted for to the Customs and Excise and to understand the circumstances in which it may be reclaimed . |
| 7 | This increase is practically all accounted for through the provision of public funds , making legal aid the fastest growing social service in Britain . |
| 8 | This ambiguity can be accounted for without the need either for two different elements enter , or two different elements again , if we regard the meaning of enter as being constituted out of more elementary semantic entities which are related quasi-syntactically : |
| 9 | Discrepancies must be accounted for during the cost value reconciliation procedure ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 10 | Freud 's own answer to this question was that , in part , it may be accounted for by the supposition of an ‘ archaic heritage ’ of unconscious memories which go back to primeval times . |
| 11 | ‘ The decline and discontinuance of the use of the surfboard as civilization advances , ’ wrote Hiram Bingham , ‘ may be accounted for by the increase in modesty , industry and religion , without supposing as some have affected to believe , that missionaries have caused oppressive enactments against it . ’ |
| 12 | Throughout the 1980s , it battled to achieve two crucial , strategic shifts : to reduce its dependence on bulk , low-margin , commodity chemicals which tend to swing wildly with the economic cycle — in favour of high value-added , high-margin ‘ effect ’ chemicals ; and to cut the share of sales accounted for by the UK . |
| 13 | The stranger 's haste was in part accounted for by the spear in his chest . |
| 14 | Platelet aggregation induced by endoperoxides appeared to be greater than that which could be accounted for by the endoperoxides alone , and Hamberg et al ( 1975 ) were able to demonstrate that in platelets endoperoxides are further metabolised to a very unstable compound , thromboxane A 2 . |
| 15 | Although the parish register was badly damaged by fire , there still exists the Bishop 's transcript of that register in which Leapor 's baptism is recorded on 16 March 1721 ( the apparent discrepancy is accounted for by the change from old to new style calendars in 1752 ) . |
| 16 | The variation here is accounted for by the differences in the very small number of entrants gaining firsts . |
| 17 | However , most of the current distribution is probably accounted for by the ageing of local populations with migration being of secondary importance . |
| 18 | The expenditure was to be accounted for by the master in his receipt book and under no circumstances was any officer to receive a gratuity . |
| 19 | The share of world refining accounted for by the majors fell from 51 per cent in 1973 to 38 per cent in 1980 . |
| 20 | Figures for the first quarter of 1991 showed a 7 per cent increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) as compared with the same period in 1990 ; 42 per cent of this increase was accounted for by the manufacturing sector . |
| 21 | The minor drop in sales was accounted for by the Guardian joint disaster recovery venture with ICL ( CI No 1,664 ) but is not considered serious . |
| 22 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 23 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 24 | A good example of the unacknowledged influence of the model may be found in the ready adoption by many sociolinguists of the notion of prestige to explain the patterns of sociolinguistic stratification which have become so familiar ; the persistence and spread of low -status forms is then accounted for by the notion of covert prestige ( Trudgill 1983a , chapter 9 ) . |
| 25 | The rest are using a combination of the Visual User Environment window manager from Hewlett-Packard Co — 25% — Visix Software Inc 's Looking Glass — 20% — with the remaining 5% accounted for by the likes of Paris-based Non Standard Logics SA 's Wish and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's management systems . |
| 26 | Table 9.2 ( columns 1 and 2 ) indicates that the share of UK GDP accounted for by the South East , the South West , East Anglia , the East Midlands and Northern Ireland increased between 1978 and 1988 . |
| 27 | Much of this turnround is accounted for by the decision to close the Bar Practising Library at the end of 1991 and by the disposal of its assets . |
| 28 | If the twenty-year gap in output apparent in the manuscript is real , it may be accounted for by the rise in influence of those hostile to the complex , polyphonic settings of Scottish church music , one of whom named the chapel royal in Stirling as an example . |
| 29 | Approximately 50 per cent is accounted for by the profit and loss account and the other 50 per cent by the three balance sheet measures . |
| 30 | If such crimes really are entirely accounted for by the possession of abnormal motives propelling their possessors into crime regardless of any other considerations , then it does not really possess the features that usually class actions as ‘ crimes ’ ; rather , it would belong in some alternative category , such as mental illness . |