Example sentences of "accounting for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On the few occasions where constructed data is used as illustration ( of a paradigm , for example , in Chapter 4 ) , it is inevitably directed towards accounting for the range of formal options available to a speaker or writer . |
| 3 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 4 | While classical factors were often present , and for brief periods predominated , Keynesian factors were the proximate forces accounting for the rise in unemployment over this period . |
| 5 | For example , this theory is incapable of accounting for the phenomenon of redundancies : workers surely do not want to be made redundant in order to indulge their desire for longer holidays . |
| 6 | This involved co-ordinating all the various stalls , publicizing the event , accounting for the money and persuading numerous people to become volunteers . ’ |
| 7 | The most important provision in this manual is that the system of cash accounting , rather than accruals accounting , is used in accounting for the money voted to government departments by Parliament . |
| 8 | The FRED includes proposals for accounting for the treatment of issue costs associated with capital instruments . |
| 9 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 10 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |
| 11 | Note 46 to the accounts shows the effect on revenue and reserves of adopting equity accounting for the whole of the equity investment portfolio regardless of whether the investments are associated undertakings or not . |
| 12 | Accounting for the flop of his latest film , ‘ Last Images of the Shipwreck ’ , on the home market , an Argentine director said simply : ‘ The shipwrecked do n't want to see the shipwreck . ’ |
| 13 | By accounting for the development of the mode of production in terms of economic relations only , Marx failed to take account of the development of political forces which also have an effect on the development of the mode of production . |
| 14 | Very little work has been done , however , in accounting for the development of an individual dramatic character in pragmatic or discourse terms . |
| 15 | If there are two elections this year — which all the pollsters are naturally hoping for — he believes political polls may account for up to 15 p.c. , with market research accounting for the rest . |
| 16 | Private French bidders , much in evidence , bought 75% of the works with ten foreign dealers accounting for the rest . |
| 17 | published in D J Storey , K Keasey , R Watson and P Wynarczyk , Accounting for the Performance of Small Firms : Profits , Jobs and Failures , Croom Helm , London 1986 . |
| 18 | Accounting for the gas laws |
| 19 | The falsificationist sees science as a set of hypotheses that are tentatively proposed with the aim of accurately describing or accounting for the behaviour of some aspect of the world or universe . |
| 20 | Finally , the thorny question of accounting for the capital cost of the hospital would have to be tackled . |
| 21 | In 1901 Hobhouse made an early attempt at accounting for the evolution of mental structure . |
| 22 | Almost 70% of Norwegian farmers were part-time , with forestry and tourism accounting for the majority of off-farm jobs . |
| 23 | ‘ I must believe in the Apostolic Succession , there being no other way of accounting for the descent of the Bishop of Exeter from Judas Iscariot . ’ |
| 24 | For even if it is accepted ( ignoring , or rejecting , any arguments to the contrary ) that spatio-temporal relations are not , or not wholly , explicable in terms of intrinsic and qualitative properties of related things , there still remains the problem of accounting for the objectivity of such relations . |
| 25 | Filip said that figures for all of 1992 were not clear enough to state if the workstation business was profitable in the year but in the fourth quarter , even assuming a margin of error in accounting for the workstation operations as a distinct business , the operation clearly was profitable . |
| 26 | Yet before we do so , it would be as well to see just how far formal , purely linguistic rules can go in accounting for the way one sentence succeeds another . |
| 27 | Even Bleuler himself considered what most of us would now recognise as a truism : that ‘ autism ’ is a feature of normal mental life , accounting for the emergence , or in some cases deliberate exploration , of ideas that arise without logic from unconscious layers of the mind . |
| 28 | There is a very serious and respectable literature on cash flow accounting for the business sector which argues that the traditional accruals accounting statements are too subjective and hide crucial information about organizations ' performance . |
| 29 | We might argue , albeit anachronistically , that best commercial practice could also have been adopted in accounting for the bridge . |
| 30 | More particularly , Galileo used standard perspective procedures in accounting for the foreshortening of the spots which he claimed in 1613 were on the surface of the sun . |