Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was another possible reason to account for his absence , and one that Cassie was reluctant to face . |
| 2 | Very probably this simple explanation accounts for the weakness of the majority of common glass . |
| 3 | If we are not going to appeal to the anthropic principle , we need some unifying theory to account for the initial conditions of the universe and the values of the various physical parameters . |
| 4 | This industrial wood accounts for 20 per cent of Nigeria 's wood consumption while the other 80 per cent is consumed as fuelwood which is mainly derived from the more northerly savanna zones . |
| 5 | It is probable that the university buildings were sited on the line of the geomantic Taurean figure and this pagan connection accounts for the violent suppression of the university by the Pope in the early seventh century . |
| 6 | It was also clear and to the point , the simple point being that property values are so high in London and the south-east that in all equity there must be some special weighting to account for them . |
| 7 | By the early 1970s rice accounted for less than a third of production by value , with the biggest increase showing in market gardening and animal-based products . |
| 8 | The idea that organisms or even whole species adapt in order to survive is a useful explanatory hypothesis to account for the acceptance or rejection of small genetic mutations . |
| 9 | The importance of manufacturing increased steadily from the beginning of the Meiji period but until the late 1920s agriculture accounted for over 25 per cent of net domestic production . |
| 10 | Moonrakers Guest House Ltd disputed liability to account for VAT on deposits when received on the basis that the company treated such deposits as belonging to the customer until either cancellation or the time of letting . |
| 11 | The one thing I did not expect to find was a single neat principle accounting for almost every odd aspect of Western usage of meat . |
| 12 | No , there was n't any particular feature to account for it , she decided irritably . |
| 13 | In 1982 crude oil accounted for more than half the total cost of imports . |
| 14 | In 1983 nuclear power accounted for 6% of total energy consumption , increasing its share of total demand from 3% in 1979 to 6% in 1983 . |
| 15 | Although Africa 's gas reserves are far larger than Europe 's , African production is less than one-fifth of European production and in 1983 indigenous consumption accounted for less than 10% of energy demand . |
| 16 | Even when the results of Studies 2 and 3 are combined the best fitting quadratic function accounts for only 0.096 percent of the total variance across these 60 points , scarcely an improvement on the 0.043 percent obtained from the simple linear correlation coefficient . |
| 17 | As late as the 1980s foreign trade accounted for a relatively small proportion of Soviet national income , the Soviet currency was not freely convertible , and the movement of people and information across Soviet borders was closely regulated and very limited . |