Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost method is generally used to account for interests of less than 20% . |
| 2 | Where this option is taken up , the intermediary ( the UK company in the example above ) is not required to account for the acquisition tax in the member states of arrival ; but it must : include the supply on its UK EC sales listing , quoting the VAT number of the customer in the member state of delivery ; and issue a tax invoice containing all the information required for an intra-EC supply endorsed ‘ VAT : Art 28c(E) ( 3 ) applies ’ . |
| 3 | The government has also failed to account for many hundreds who ‘ disappeared ’ in custody after an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1977 . |
| 4 | Alcohol has edged down from 80 to 78 per mille , but leisure services have risen from 32 per mille to 62 , entirely as a result of the inclusion for the first time of foreign holidays , which are now deemed to account for 30 per mille ( 3 per cent ) of the cost of living . |
| 5 | UK Birmingham-based IMI 's Uniplex Ltd office automation software outfit will next week announce the appointment of Margaret Gymer to the post of director of international services : she 'll head a new service and support unit the company is starting to look after that side of the business , which is now said to account for some 20% of the company 's revenue . |
| 6 | Originally constructed to account for atomic physics it has proved equally applicable to the behaviour of those latest candidates for the role of basic constituents of matter , the quarks and gluons . |
| 7 | What is instructive in terms of the psychology of science is the willingness with which Kammerer 's detractors were prepared to resort to fraud as an explanation for facts that had been misinterpreted as support for a counter-theory , facts which , at that point , their own theory was insufficiently well developed to account for . |
| 8 | Lewis 's theory of convention is then applied to account for the acquisition of conventional meaning by certain action ( or utterance ) types in the developing linguistic life of the group . |