Example sentences of "counts for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Petersburg counts for an awful lot . |
| 2 | ( In the pursuit of performance-indicators , publication in ‘ refereed journals ’ counts for much , though I am not sure if I have ever appeared in a refereed journal in my life . ) |
| 3 | In sport , attitude counts for everything . |
| 4 | With long straights and blind brows often hiding corners , experience counts for a lot . |
| 5 | Baresi is one of the world 's best liberos , Italian technique is as good as ever and home advantage still counts for much . |
| 6 | Each article or book chapter counts for one point ; each book counts for ten ; and the productivity trend , needless to say , is on the up and up . |
| 7 | Each article or book chapter counts for one point ; each book counts for ten ; and the productivity trend , needless to say , is on the up and up . |
| 8 | ICI also owns commodity businesses , where basic research counts for little . |
| 9 | Friendship , I fear , counts for very little when the fur really begins to fly . |
| 10 | We have yet to learn that form counts for something even in the holiest adoration of the heart . ’ |
| 11 | His portrait is n't in Perth 's exclusive Weld Club , where influence counts for more than cash . |
| 12 | ‘ Local knowledge counts for a lot … we hardly pulled out the maps [ in New Zealand ] , ’ he said . |
| 13 | This could be achieved by totalling the loan counts for each interest category and then expressing each count as a percentage of the total . |
| 14 | The result was a data matrix giving pixel counts for five land-cover types together with the recorded population for the 49 wards . |
| 15 | Our intention is to express the ward populations as some function of the pixel counts for each land-cover type . |
| 16 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
| 17 | It confirms that breeding still counts for more than achievement . |
| 18 | Appearance counts for nought , the only stipulation being that the berry is whole . |
| 19 | Attention to detail counts for a lot , and attention to detail is what you get with one of Michael Pedulla 's instruments … |
| 20 | You could probably get the drummer , bassist and guitarist and their gear all in the back of a Mini , which counts for nothing when you get to the gig and turn it up , of course . |
| 21 | That the country would be lifted from recession should Neil Kinnock step aside in my favour counts for nothing . |
| 22 | If it does not stand as a moral example to the followers of the Church , it counts for nothing . |
| 23 | ‘ But I know from experience that in cup ties current status counts for little its a question of what you do on the day . |
| 24 | But since the general feeling within the ICC is that cash rather than rotation counts for more , England could end up losing out . |
| 25 | I know that when I see the books of a hitherto-collected writer being grouped in a catalogue in half-dozens and tens , instead of being offered singly , he is on the way out so far as the collecting world counts for anything . |
| 26 | Individuality counts for little as the nurse in the antenatal clinic brightly calls us ‘ Mother ’ , and the doctor treats us as if we were half-witted . |
| 27 | He 's one of the initiates , and in my opinion that counts for , and perhaps even excuses , a lot . |
| 28 | But , assuming song-savvy still counts for anything , then the game 's already in the bag , since as well as ‘ Gasoline ’ there 's at least half a dozen similarly melancholic roars in this honest beast 's breast , including one titled — with disarming candour — ‘ Hüsker Dü FC ’ ! |
| 29 | All this counts for nothing in the world of rugby and it will be his ability to scrum and compete with the best that will make or break this South African legend . |
| 30 | which sounds as if parentage counts , but not to the point where it counts for everything . |