Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] account [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The EC and EFTA countries account for 70% of Scotland 's exports compared with 68% in last year 's survey . |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia 's trade with EFTA countries accounted for almost 9 per cent of total exports in 1991 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Shoplifters Thefts account for a large proportion of lost profits . |
| 7 | UK operations accounted for more than 86 per cent of profits , almost £14 million . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | London authorities accounted for nearly half the English rent arrears and had eight of the ten worst collection records . |
| 13 | In the four major faunas known from that time , from Scotland , Brazil , Argentina and India rhynchosaurs account for 30 to 70 per cent of specimens collected . |
| 14 | Even in the eighteenth century excise returns reveal that 12 big London breweries accounted for 25 per cent of the national production . |