Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |
| 2 | But this , as I have indicated , does not in all cases make for the construction of a more liberal society . |
| 3 | The futures contract for June expiry stayed close to its ‘ fair value ’ premium of 29 points for most of the day . |
| 4 | However , the fact that the futures contract for June settlement continued to trade at a 26-point premium to ‘ fair value ’ ( 23 points — the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now , but not paying for two and a half months ) indicates that most pundits see the market making further headway after Easter . |
| 5 | The investor buys a futures contract for around 10% of its value . |
| 6 | With only one domestic index futures contract for the London Stock Exchange ( the FT-SE 100 ) , the creation of synthetic index futures contracts for the UK is not yet possible . |
| 7 | In the absence of transactions costs for trading futures and assuming no risk aversion or preference , the current price of a futures contract for delivery at time T in a competitive market will equal today 's expectation of the spot price at time T , that is , F t = E ( S T ) . |
| 8 | Acrobats , clowns and musicians jostle for your attention . |
| 9 | EVERY YEAR EXPORTS ACCOUNT FOR 85 PER CENT OF SCOTCH WHISKY SALES , A PROUD RECORD OF CONSISTENCY UNMATCHED BY OTHER INDUSTRIES . |
| 10 | Fish exports account for 90 per cent of the Faroe Islands ' export income . |
| 11 | Acute care operations account for 93 per cent of sales and 94 per cent of profits . |
| 12 | Most of the houses sell for around 60,000 pounds … and keen pricing seems to be the key to attracting first time buyers : |
| 13 | The latissimus dorsi account for the very impressive ‘ V ’ shape of athletes and bodybuilders . |
| 14 | Other experts fear for the future — MDMA damages nerve terminals in rats and monkeys , and there is a strong possibility that it causes similar damage in humans . |
| 15 | Flatworms , tapeworms or threadworms make for lurid and colourful pictures in the horror section of Koi manuals , but their life cycle is invariably so complex that not all the vectors will be present in the pond . |
| 16 | At least two reasons account for the latter . |
| 17 | At least two reasons account for this , besides general confidence . |
| 18 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 19 | About three quarters of dairy herds in EC member states qualify for full compensation . |
| 20 | For example , 50 individual stations in 15 states account for half of all power station emissions . |
| 21 | Telecoms operators account for 70 per cent of Ariane 's order books in 1989 , and French and European orders in early 1989 for 50 new Ariane 4 rockets strengthened Ariane 's position as the leading satellite launcher in the world . |
| 22 | US giants unite for electric car research |
| 23 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |
| 24 | The illustrative programme of additional expenditure from January 1993 , set out in Appendix 1 of The Future of Our Qualification , does include programmes ‘ to enhance firms ' profitability ’ and ‘ to help firms translate audit regulation into a profitable opportunity ’ , but these activities account for only £210,000 of the total additional expenditure of almost £2m . |
| 25 | The Opposition must withdrawn their policy , and do so today , or everyone will know what their policies mean for British Steel . |
| 26 | Reward-based training is the method our experts advocate for most situations . |
| 27 | Steel or ( as they are still called ) ‘ tin ’ cans account for about 10 billion of the 14 billion cans used in the UK every year . |
| 28 | Desulfovibrios account for approximately 66% of all colonic sulphate reducing bacteria , while Desulfobulbus spp. constitute about 16% . |
| 29 | However , plans remain for the construction of major irrigation works — with possible support from EC structural funds — which would transform the habitat . |
| 30 | Ethnic minority groups account for 3.9 per cent of the economically-active working age population in Britain and about 10 per cent in London . |