Example sentences of "accounting for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not merely was the transformation great in itself but , of course , on the largest commuter network under single ownership in the world — equating to the complete Dutch or Belgian railways , carrying two million passengers daily and accounting for 41 per cent of all commuters into central London . |
| 2 | In spite of accounting for only 0.2 per cent of a beer 's cost , this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable . |
| 3 | Indeed Sears points to £6.3m worth of special factors , such as the rail strike , accounting for almost half the profits set-back . |
| 4 | Photo-Me 's identity card venture is still at an embryonic stage , accounting for only 2 ½%; of turnover . |
| 5 | Walker is British Steel 's largest single customer , accounting for about 7 per cent of its total output of 13.1 million tonnes . |
| 6 | The cause for GM 's concern is plain when one realises that its West European operations have emerged as the biggest profit earners in the entire group , accounting for some 37.3 per cent of net income in the last two years but for only 14.6 per cent of group turnover . |
| 7 | Traffic problems are the single biggest reason why people are late for work , says the report , accounting for one-third of late arrivals , with oversleeping and bus or tube problems accounting for 16 per cent and 9 per cent respectively . |
| 8 | Traffic problems are the single biggest reason why people are late for work , says the report , accounting for one-third of late arrivals , with oversleeping and bus or tube problems accounting for 16 per cent and 9 per cent respectively . |
| 9 | Turnover rose 62 per cent from £120m to £193m , with sales of construction equipment accounting for more than half at £106m . |
| 10 | Outlook : Accounting for Europe |
| 11 | SOME 10 per cent of the goods bought at Sainsbury 's stores is now paid for by Switch debit card , accounting for a quarter of a million shoppers . |
| 12 | the service secor is vitally important , accounting for over 50% of GNP ; |
| 13 | Their dedication and support have been invaluable in both accounting for the Association 's funds and managing them effectively . |
| 14 | As production increased farmers had a growing surplus over their household requirements and sold an increasing proportion of their crop , reaching 60 per cent in 1985 and in 1988 , and accounting for half of the national marketed production . |
| 15 | Taking the donor agencies as a whole , about 9,000 evaluations of individual projects have been made since 1970 , probably accounting for about 12 per cent of all projects launched since that time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Against all expectations , the S2 Coupe has become the most popular of all the Coupes , accounting for a quarter of total production . |
| 18 | And while the bulk of public controversy has focused on Japanese investment , Britain plays by far the biggest role , accounting for 31 per cent of all foreign investment in the US , as much as the next two investors , the Dutch ( 14.9 per cent ) and the Japanese ( 16.1 per cent ) combined . |
| 19 | Although these cheeses are very popular in Europe ( it is said that the average German eats 5kg/11lb of quark a year , accounting for half their cheese intake ) they may become a passing fad of the era of nouvelle cuisine in the UK . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | With farm exports accounting for 70% of New Zealand 's exports , that would be good news for the entire economy . |
| 22 | America is the biggest single air-travel market , accounting for more than 40% of all the world 's airline passengers . |
| 23 | They had invested in junk in the first place because of government policy , accounting for 7% of bonds outstanding at the end of 1988 . |
| 24 | Chart 15 , from Karen Wruck at the Harvard Business School , shows part of the answer why : in a highly leveraged firm , default is triggered by the inability to meet payments to claimants accounting for a much larger proportion of the firm 's value than in a firm with more equity ; and the loss to creditors of failing to agree on new terms is thus potentially bigger . |
| 25 | The plan is to create a market of 190m people , accounting for more than half the GDP of Latin America and the Caribbean . |
| 26 | But although God does have the role in Berkeley 's philosophy of accounting for the continued perceivability of real objects apart from our actual perception of them , it is not quite in the way we have just described . |
| 27 | How important were the depressed economic conditions and unemployment in accounting for the slow down in population growth ? |
| 28 | Platonists and Stoics in different ways expended much effort , therefore , in accounting for the evils of experience . |
| 29 | On occasion arrangements would be made between governments , such as in the period 1632–47 when England and Spain agreed that large amounts of Spanish silver were to be coined at the mint of London , accounting for a high proportion of its output . |
| 30 | Muslim descendants of Slavs who converted to Islam under the Ottoman Empire make up the largest ethnic group , accounting for 43 per cent of the republic 's 4.3 million inhabitants . |