Example sentences of "[modal v] account for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those extra 1 million pensioners must account for many of the additional claimants . |
| 2 | Therefore neither group 's data can be discounted and any model of the VOR must account for both sets of results . |
| 3 | In other words , oil rigs should account for all materials both used and produced during operations — and everything should be brought on shore for safe disposal . |
| 4 | In other words , oil rigs should account for all materials both used and produced during operations — and everything should be brought on shore for safe disposal . |
| 5 | If all goes to plan , oil should account for some 50% of demand in 1990 and 38% in the year 2000 . |
| 6 | 5 No subdivision of the X -axis should account for more than half the range of the X -values found in the data . |
| 7 | In a detailed and thorough analysis of possible factors which might account for this difference , J. Walker et al. |
| 8 | What other reasons might account for this urban rural wage differential , just generally higher er standard of living er just cost , just prices er yeah , the cost the cost of living may well be higher and as a result employers have to pay higher wages , |
| 9 | In the fourth and fifth years of secondary education , they suggested , the foundation subjects might account for some 75–85% of pupils ' time ( 30–40% of that devoted to the core subjects ) , leaving some 15–25% of time for other subjects , at the discretion of the school ( DES/Welsh Office , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Three-quarters of village income by the mid-1980s was earned outside , either elsewhere in the West Bank , or more usually in Israel , which might account for 60 per cent of village income . |
| 11 | It suggests that electric cars could account for 7 per cent by volume of total urban vehicle traffic by the year 2002 . |
| 12 | War , disease or climatic change could account for such a throwback . |
| 13 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |
| 14 | It left open the question of whose money had paid for the House of Fraser but made clear that nothing in the career of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed could account for such new-found wealth . |
| 15 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |
| 16 | From a consecutive series of 50 referral letters sent by general practitioners in Sunderland to the local department of child psychiatry , 15 items of information were identified that could account for all the information contained in the letters . |
| 17 | What conceivable genetic mechanism could account for this ? |
| 18 | There are clearly a large number of factors which could account for this difference . |
| 19 | They also concluded that genetic factors alone , without environmental interactions , could account for this segregation . |
| 20 | If that rate of increase continues it is estimated that methyl bromide could account for one-sixth of ozone loss by 2000 . |
| 21 | The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending . |
| 22 | The note indicates that the rate of increase is higher than that for restaurant prices in general over this period , and this could account for some of the reduction in business . |
| 23 | Widespread activation of T cells , with selective representation of particular V elements , is also a feature of some inflammatory joint diseases linked with infective agents and of Kawasaki disease , and superantigen effects could account for these associations . |
| 24 | In the CEGB 's implicitly preferred high-nuclear case , nuclear power would account for 72 per cent of capacity in 2030 ; this would probably make the CEGB more dependent on nuclear power than it now is on coal . |
| 25 | A UNDP report released at the congress warned that AIDS could threaten the economic well-being of Asian countries , which by the year 2000 would account for 42 per cent of the world 's projected 100,000,000 cases . |
| 26 | Investment was planned to rise by 10.3 per cent a year during the five years , with an increasing role for private investment which would account for 60 per cent of the total by 1993 . |
| 27 | Can you or any of your readers put forward ideas that would account for these oddities ? |
| 28 | For the first time agricultural spending , at ECU32,150 million ( compared with ECU35,350 million in 1992 ) , would account for less than half of expenditure . |
| 29 | Debt servicing would account for 39 per cent of government expenditure . |
| 30 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |