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 | Altogether the homelands accounted for 13 per cent of South Africa 's land area — see map . ) |
| 3 | The polytechnic says they 're fully aware of local objections and have revised the plans to account for them . |
| 4 | Okay , so , that 's , they 're the reasons to account for the rise in absolute values of er , trade in all commodities , what about erm , why has the er , trade in manufactures er , increased as a proportion of total trade ? |
| 5 | the legs account for half the total height of the figure . |
| 6 | the legs account for half the total height of the figure . |
| 7 | Although significant , their correlations were low , and the relationships accounted for a small proportion of the variance in the sign language performance scores . |
| 8 | In front of a colourful and engrossed crowd of nearly 10,000 at the Government Stadium yesterday , the Scots accounted for the event 's only whipping boys , Pacific Islanders Vanuatu , by 40-0 , then lost to the local Fijian district , Nadroga , 12-7 in the last tie of the day . |
| 9 | In their two matches at the Government Stadium yesterday , the Scots accounted for the event 's only whipping boys , Pacific Islanders Vanuatu , by 40-0 , then lost to the local Fijian district , Nadroga , 12-7 in the last tie of the day . |
| 10 | In 1991 , another bumper year , the bonuses accounted for as much as 80 per cent of the money earned by brokers , traders and investment bankers . |
| 11 | While servitors were bringing food and wine , the visitors accounted for themselves , where they had come from and what had transpired , the situation at Berwick and over on the West March . |
| 12 | For an atom with many electrons , we can still use the one-electron atom wave-functions as approximate descriptions of the behavior of the electrons , though we should modify the functions to account for the mutual repulsion of the electrons . |
| 13 | Only the Lithuanians accounted for so large a proportion of the population of their own republic , and the measure was widely seen as blocking rather than facilitating a transition to fully independent status . |
| 14 | Suppose we get 204 , giving herd B ; the second of the systematic sample will be 204 + 293 = 497 which gives herd F. By this means we always obtain two different primaries unless one of the primaries accounts for more than half the secondaries , in which case that primary has to appear at least once . |
| 15 | Salaries and other remuneration are paid out of gross profits and the recipients account for tax under normal PAYE arrangements . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Finding that a third of the track and half the stations accounted for only 2% of traffic , he began a drastic programme of closures . |
| 18 | The estuaries account for nearly half the country 's tidal shoreline ( compared with 28 per cent in western Europe ) . |
| 19 | However , by delegating authority to subordinates , the superior takes on the extra tasks of calling the subordinates to account for their decisions and performance , and also of coordinating the efforts of different subordinates . |
| 20 | At that stage , the tigers accounted for only 19% of the money flowing into these countries . |
| 21 | Then he had to remember that even after the rounds had been allocated and the stetches accounted for , he still had to include the acre or so of headland , the land on the outside of the field where the ploughs turned , which had to be ploughed the last of all . ’ |
| 22 | A summary of the results accounting for the differences in expressed PLC activities is shown in Fig. 2 a ; this shows that the net increase in inositol phosphate formation induced by βγ t was about fivefold higher for cells expressing PLC- β2 than for cells expressing PLC- β1 . |
| 23 | The police account for over a third of these specific grants . |
| 24 | The 20 to 30 per cent discounts offered by the superstores account for only around half of the US/UK price differential . |
| 25 | These are some of the factors accounting for the apathy with which the deaf and dumb population welcomed the BDDA , but there was discontent also among members and sympathisers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The railways account for only 7.5% of passenger travel in Britain ; their share of the freight market is 8% . |