Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | the legs account for half the total height of the figure . |
| 3 | the legs account for half the total height of the figure . |
| 4 | Salaries and other remuneration are paid out of gross profits and the recipients account for tax under normal PAYE arrangements . |
| 5 | The chronic nature of the symptoms , the benign appearance of the gastric lesions on endoscopy , and the equivocal histological aspect of the lesions account for the fact that numerous MALT lymphomas were considered ‘ pseudolymphomas ’ until the monoclonal nature of the proliferation could be routinely shown by immunochemistry . |
| 6 | The estuaries account for nearly half the country 's tidal shoreline ( compared with 28 per cent in western Europe ) . |
| 7 | The police account for over a third of these specific grants . |
| 8 | The 20 to 30 per cent discounts offered by the superstores account for only around half of the US/UK price differential . |
| 9 | Compare the benefits of random and access frequency loading in a file that is 93 per cent packed , fourteen records to a bucket , and for which 21 per cent of the records account for 82 per cent of the accesses . |
| 10 | The railways account for only 7.5% of passenger travel in Britain ; their share of the freight market is 8% . |