Example sentences of "account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These fees are quite distinct from the money you will need for living , travelling , buying books , etc. , which will probably account for a further £3500 to £5000 ( these figures are based on 1989/90 standards ) . |
| 2 | Tests show that on most high performance machines , a spread of splattered flies on the leading edges can account for up to a quarter of the glider 's performance , reducing a glide ratio of 40:1 to less than 35:1 and making a mockery of glide calculations . |
| 3 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |
| 4 | The new shares will account for 25 per cent of the enlarged group and will be placed at 90p . |
| 5 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 6 | Jeanette Lamb , a research team member at the Institute of Molecular Medicine , John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford , said : ‘ We have found a cause for mental retardation that may account for a large proportion of the unexplained cases . ’ |
| 7 | Hi-Tec hopes North America , which lifted sales and profits by 20 per cent , and Europe will account for half of group turnover by early 1991 . |
| 8 | This may account for the relatively high level of interest being expressed in the issue . |
| 9 | A technical explanation of this kind however does not account for the continuing one-man-band nature of many such businesses , which prevents growth for organizational as well as market reasons . |
| 10 | This meant that Marx had to develop a theory which recognized the intellectual nature of man , but which — and in this he was different from Hegel and Kant , who did not believe that there could ultimately be a material origin to ideas — could account for the peculiar history of mankind and for the growth of ideas and their power in natural terms . |
| 11 | Marx , however , realized that the need to make a living could never directly explain what human beings do , nor could it account for the complexity of human history itself . |
| 12 | The saloon , which only has two doors and is not sold in Germany , will account for just a tiny fraction of the 37,000 cars Volkswagen intends to export to Britain during 1991 . |
| 13 | Clearly , the Williams-Renault was on the pace even though gearbox trouble would eventually account for both drivers , Patrese 's departure being the more dramatic of the two . |
| 14 | Mrs. Browne could n't account for that , unless it had been because of the wet weather . |
| 15 | We can account for what he was doing with his time , but this is not the same thing as explaining how or why the tone of voice — that vigour , that distinctively Lewisian freshness and vitality — was so long in coming . |
| 16 | And the figures do not account for the numbers of unreported cases . |
| 17 | Others are tested when an industrial accident occurs , on the theory that it creates a ‘ reasonable suspicion ’ of drug impairment , even though faulty equipment or poor weather conditions may more plausibly account for the mishap . |
| 18 | He can account for his movements , as it happens . |
| 19 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 20 | By that Mr Power means everything from advertising to warranty repairs , which can together account for about 35% of the price of an average car in America . |
| 21 | But the trouble is that they do not account for anything like all the shares of most firms . |
| 22 | The industry is split over whether to set itself a 20% or 35% ceiling on the percentage of assets that junk bonds can account for . |
| 23 | In the same issue of the Lancet , Astra replied that Glaxo 's new test was scientifically unsound because it did not account for normal cell division ( which would also stimulate DNA synthesis ) . |
| 24 | Locke obviously recognized the implausibility of supposing that experience gives us these pieces of knowledge ; experience can not account for their certain applicability to all wholes , all numbers , or all promises . |
| 25 | When in 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species , he had no intention of implying that random mutation of genes and natural selection could account for the emergence of life on earth ; but it was inevitable that some of his followers would try to project his hypothesis backwards , and speculate that life might somehow have been generated spontaneously in gaseous , primeval slime . |
| 26 | There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake , which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery . |
| 27 | And so , on 9 February , 1950 , to a startled audience of women Republicans in Wheeling , West Virginia , McCarthy raised the favourite bogey : ‘ How can we account for our present situation unless we believe that men high in this government are concerting to deliver us to disaster ? |
| 28 | The work would account for his obvious strength . |
| 29 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 30 | This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life . |