Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , the businesses earmarked for ICI Bio accounted for only 34% of group turnover , but generated 69% of trading profits ; pharmaceuticals alone were responsible for 12% of sales and 52% of trading profit . |
| 2 | Strabane scored 212 — the Gillespie brothers accounting for 149 of the runs and for good measure Mark ( 64 not out ) was voted man of the match . |
| 3 | THE MEDAU SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND REVENUE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER 1979 |
| 4 | The EC and EFTA countries account for 70% of Scotland 's exports compared with 68% in last year 's survey . |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia 's trade with EFTA countries accounted for almost 9 per cent of total exports in 1991 . |
| 6 | December trading accounts for 12 to 25% , sometimes hitting 30% , of the annual turnover of general bookselling in the UK . |
| 7 | In 1990 around 58 per cent of exports went to EC countries and 74 per cent of imports came from the EC , while the country 's five EFTA partners accounted for only 7 per cent of trade . |
| 8 | The Maharaja Joodha Shamser Jung accounted for 433 tigers in just four seasons . |
| 9 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 10 | Its proprietary VME environment accounted for 80% of operating system sales , 65% of information management revenues and 40% of its application business . |
| 11 | Shoplifters Thefts account for a large proportion of lost profits . |
| 12 | UK operations accounted for more than 86 per cent of profits , almost £14 million . |
| 13 | For the first time , items from the former East Germany accounted for a large proportion of the lots on offer . |
| 14 | He said that Britain produces 3 per cent of man-made carbon dioxide emissions , the EC accounts for 13 per cent and " the United States accounts for 23 per cent … |
| 15 | Production for the international market is concentrated in the most powerful capitalist state : the United States accounts for around 50 per cent of world grain exports . |
| 16 | Column 1 in the same table considers the share of UK population accounted for by each region for the same year . |
| 17 | In column 2 of Table 9.1 , the share of UK GDP accounted for by each region is recorded for 1988 . |
| 18 | If the share of UK GDP accounted for by a particular region is equal to its share of UK population and , if this is true for all regions , then GDP is spread proportional to population throughout the country . |
| 19 | However , if the share of UK GDP accounted for by a particular region is higher than its share of UK population , then that region is relatively more prosperous than the average ; conversely for a lower figure . |
| 20 | The share of UK GDP accounted for by each region ; |
| 21 | Table 9.2 ( columns 1 and 2 ) indicates that the share of UK GDP accounted for by the South East , the South West , East Anglia , the East Midlands and Northern Ireland increased between 1978 and 1988 . |
| 22 | The share of UK demand accounted for by oil has fallen from 50% in 1973 to 37% in 1983 . |
| 23 | For overseas businesses registered in other EC member states which are making supplies in the UK , the simplification option allows them to avoid UK VAT registration , but requires the UK customer to account for VAT due on the supply . |
| 24 | Topham ( 1983 ) notes that in the USA state grants finance about a third of local public expenditure , while in the UK grants-in-aid account for about half the revenue of local authorities . |
| 25 | Intra-EC trade accounts for 29.3% of EC spirits production and for only 18.3% and 4.7% of EC wine and beer production respectively . |
| 26 | For instance , other EMS currencies account for 72% of the French franc 's trade-weighted basket , and the dollar accounts for 44% of the yen 's . |
| 27 | Ethnic minority groups account for 5 per cent of the population , Indians , Pakistani , Bangladeshi and West Indians accounting for just 1 per cent each of the population overall ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | To take the case of cars , in 1962 the big three US producers accounted for 67.5 per cent of the sales of the top 20 producers ; in 1972 the share was 58.1 per cent . |
| 29 | The second , concerning the Alpine soldiers , took place five days later : ‘ Submarine cast off and with the Lewis gun accounted for the soldiers in the rubber raft ’ [ my italics ] . |
| 30 | The slowdown in the world economy and higher prices in Eastern Europe because of subsidy cuts have both squeezed demand , and the Gulf crisis accounts for a loss of some 350,000 tonnes of sales to Iraq and Kuwait over the past six months . |