Example sentences of "[that] accounted " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formation of U.S. Steel in 1901 was Morgan 's biggest deal , forging together 11 firms that accounted for half America 's steel industry . |
| 2 | It received net interest and dividends in the 1990 fiscal year that accounted for more than 20% of its operating profits . |
| 3 | Holding started it with a blistering over of flat-out speed that accounted for Boycott , after which no one passed 26 and they were all out for 122 , with Croft again the leading wicket-taker . |
| 4 | Then he pulled down the oven door , smelt the sweet , fatty smell of the meat and knew that it was probably this very fact that accounted for his decision to go through with the business . |
| 5 | It was this balance or imbalance between losing manufacturing jobs , on the one hand , and service-sector performance on the other , that accounted for urban economic performance and variation in the 1970s . |
| 6 | Analyses of voting patterns revealed that it was primarily the racist demagoguery against foreign nationals living in West Germany that accounted for the party 's victories . |
| 7 | It was this that accounted for [ the ] breadth and resiliency [ of the militancy ] , its tendency to spill over the boundaries of normal industrial action , its unique ability to involve women as well as men , and its political dimensions . |
| 8 | Japan did not , moreover , have a primate city that accounted for most of the urban population . |
| 9 | ‘ That was the hedge that accounted for your mother . ’ |
| 10 | It was Daedalian blood that accounted for the native handiness and wit and industry of the people of Ninfania , the father had always thought . |
| 11 | All they had to do was indicate the points in the text at which the language created an effect of surprise ; the task of the stylistician was then to analyze the contrast , between the linguistic structure of the device and that of its immediate context , that accounted for this effect of surprise . |
| 12 | Or was it less his personality that accounted for their compliance than his power — a power so much greater than that of a headmaster within the State system ? |
| 13 | Perhaps that accounted for their nervousness . |
| 14 | So far as he was concerned , she was fair game ; that accounted for his behaviour in her bedroom , the scene in the hired car last night . |
| 15 | The business rate has been taken away from local authorities , and in London that accounted for about £2 billion of income . |
| 16 | And it was his precision bowling that accounted for Gooch just as he was finding his touch . |
| 17 | Certainly his spell in Africa coincided with a period of great upheaval in the former empire countries that accounted for much of Grant 's small overseas markets at the time . |