Example sentences of "[noun] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |
| 2 | EVERY YEAR EXPORTS ACCOUNT FOR 85 PER CENT OF SCOTCH WHISKY SALES , A PROUD RECORD OF CONSISTENCY UNMATCHED BY OTHER INDUSTRIES . |
| 3 | Fish exports account for 90 per cent of the Faroe Islands ' export income . |
| 4 | Acute care operations account for 93 per cent of sales and 94 per cent of profits . |
| 5 | Malaysia , Thailand , Indonesia and Bolivia account for 70 per cent of world output . |
| 6 | The latissimus dorsi account for the very impressive ‘ V ’ shape of athletes and bodybuilders . |
| 7 | There may , after all , be something to be said for allowing the communes to retain their sales taxes , which at present account for about 60 per cent of their revenues . |
| 8 | Finally , these two characteristics of the artefact — its extreme visibility and its extreme invisibility — may also , through their relationship , in large measure account for our difficulty in appreciating the importance of material culture for social relations . |
| 9 | At least two reasons account for the latter . |
| 10 | At least two reasons account for this , besides general confidence . |
| 11 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 12 | For example , 50 individual stations in 15 states account for half of all power station emissions . |
| 13 | Telecoms operators account for 70 per cent of Ariane 's order books in 1989 , and French and European orders in early 1989 for 50 new Ariane 4 rockets strengthened Ariane 's position as the leading satellite launcher in the world . |
| 14 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |
| 15 | The illustrative programme of additional expenditure from January 1993 , set out in Appendix 1 of The Future of Our Qualification , does include programmes ‘ to enhance firms ' profitability ’ and ‘ to help firms translate audit regulation into a profitable opportunity ’ , but these activities account for only £210,000 of the total additional expenditure of almost £2m . |
| 16 | Steel or ( as they are still called ) ‘ tin ’ cans account for about 10 billion of the 14 billion cans used in the UK every year . |
| 17 | Desulfovibrios account for approximately 66% of all colonic sulphate reducing bacteria , while Desulfobulbus spp. constitute about 16% . |
| 18 | The relatively modern professions of engineer and chauffeur or driver account for 7 and 6 respectively , while the skilled traditional trades so common among the bride 's fathers are here all down to single figures : 7 in wood , 7 in metal , 4 in building , 3 in plumbing and fitting . |
| 19 | Ethnic minority groups account for 3.9 per cent of the economically-active working age population in Britain and about 10 per cent in London . |
| 20 | Altogether , these groups account for about a quarter of all sales by Japanese firms . |
| 21 | Ethnic minority groups account for 5 per cent of the population , Indians , Pakistani , Bangladeshi and West Indians accounting for just 1 per cent each of the population overall ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Clearly in simple population terms the older age groups account for a disproportionate amount of health care expenditure . |
| 23 | As figure 4.3 shows , in 1984 , 41.5 per cent of fulltime women workers were to be found in clerical employment , while a very few further occupational groups account for the rest of most women in paid work . |
| 24 | These two broad industrial groups account for rather less than half the total labour force but nearly two-thirds of the temporary labour force [ see Table 2.1 ] . |
| 25 | Mergers account for about half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 26 | Owner occupiers account for 23pc of households and the inclusion of work to their properties would have a beneficial effect on the overall scheme , members heard . |
| 27 | Duodenal varices account for one third of all ectopic variceal bleeding and usually occurs in adults . |
| 28 | Jejunal and ileal varices account for approximately one third of bleeding ectopic varices . |
| 29 | As defined by present mean sea level the continents account for 29 per cent of the Earth 's surface area and the oceans 71 per cent , but if the break of slope represented on the global hypsometric curve is used the figure for the continents is nearer 37 per cent . |
| 30 | Of this total , food and food related products account for 28 per cent . |