Example sentences of "that [noun] account for " in BNC.

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1 Since Intersolv reckons that maintenance accounts for some half of all programming work in MVS sites , and says that the research makes up for the bulk of this work , the potential time savings for users and the potential market for Intersolv are substantial .
2 ‘ Spinal Injuries in U.S. Rugby : 1970–90 ’ , was that many more catastrophic scrum injuries come from ‘ colliding ’ scrums ( 57 per cent ) than collapsed scrums ( 26 per cent ) , and that hookers accounted for 81 per cent of scrummaging injuries .
3 Small reckons that foxes account for £2,000 worth of lambs a year ( assuming £35 for a store lamb ) on his farm .
4 Macdonald suggests that foxes account for just one in every 15 or 20 lambs that die on Scottish hills .
5 The accounting policy note on associated undertakings goes on to state that the directors believe that equity accounting for associated undertakings would not give a true and fair view of the group 's income .
6 British farmers are not producing enough organic food to meet rapidly-rising consumer demand , with the result that imports account for 70 per cent of the annual market , according to the Organic Food and Farming Centre .
7 Many estimate that countertrade accounts for as much as 10 per cent of Brazil 's exports of both raw materials and manufactured goods .
8 The government 's Building Research Establishment estimates that buildings account for half of Britain 's energy consumption .
9 Critics of Balling 's work have suggested that , rather than showing that deserts account for some of the world temperature rise , the results may simply be demonstrating the fact that different types of land — notably desert — respond varyingly to the greenhouse effect .
10 In another multivariate approach , Shuttleworth ( 1980a ) has used principal components analysis to show that relief accounts for 20.5 per cent of the variation in landscape description produced by a nine-point semantic differential scale .
11 In public discussion , however , the idea that genes account for most variation among IQs seems not only controversial but also associated with a few men of allegedly questionable character .
12 Apple claims that Britain accounts for 35 per cent of the small computers sold in Europe , with Germany and France level at around 20 per cent .
13 Again , like his UK counterpart , Richet says that Montpellier has already found some OEM business and that outsiders account for 10% of his revenue .
14 A series of studies of such businessmen have been conducted by Nigerian scholars , and these are particularly significant given the fact that Nigeria accounts for one third of ‘ value added ’ in manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole ( excluding South Africa ) .
15 As the total number of filled vacancies for all ages was 652,306 , this means that juveniles accounted for about 20% of all those finding employment through the exchanges .
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