Example sentences of "which account for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publication details major financial losses and fatalities caused by minor events and provides a prescription for reducing these losses , which account for many millions of working days lost each year . |
| 2 | It is small , burgeoning firms which account for true economic growth . |
| 3 | Corporate partnerships in engineering , electronics and computing , especially involving West Germany which accounted for 120 such partnerships , had increased sharply in the first half of 1990 . |
| 4 | The major spending services of the Metropolitan counties ( police , fire , public transport and probation ) , which accounted for some 70 per cent of their expenditure , were transferred to such joint boards ( notably Fire and Civil Defence Boards , Police Boards , Transport Boards ) . |
| 5 | The economic problems of Trinidad and Tobago were , however , temporarily relieved by the Gulf crisis which boosted the petroleum sector which accounted for some 80 per cent of foreign exchange earnings . |
| 6 | Redundancies , which accounted for 37 per cent of job losses , dismissals , which accounted for nearly 15 per cent , and voluntary resignations , which accounted for another 37 per cent , were all more important . |