Example sentences of "[conj] account for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly his spell in Africa coincided with a period of great upheaval in the former empire countries that accounted for much of Grant 's small overseas markets at the time . |
| 2 | Japan did not , moreover , have a primate city that accounted for most of the urban population . |
| 3 | All they had to do was indicate the points in the text at which the language created an effect of surprise ; the task of the stylistician was then to analyze the contrast , between the linguistic structure of the device and that of its immediate context , that accounted for this effect of surprise . |
| 4 | The formation of U.S. Steel in 1901 was Morgan 's biggest deal , forging together 11 firms that accounted for half America 's steel industry . |
| 5 | These predisposed patterns are known as co-occurrences or collocations , and account for many English word combinations . |
| 6 | Using the Black-Scholes model , evaluate the following calls and puts and compare your answers with the market values given below and account for any discrepancies : . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These are confined to the Coccoidea , where the best known is carminic acid , the colouring principle of cochineal , found in the eggs and fat body of the female Dactylopius coccus and accounting for half its body weight . |
| 9 | This is a common confusion and accounts for many weak arguments in sociology and elsewhere . |
| 10 | Much inter-bank lending in Eurocurrency takes place and accounts for much of the business . |
| 11 | This effort to unite what can not be united lies at the heart of the haiku and accounts for some of its tense , sad loveliness . |
| 12 | Once a year the magazine includes an Annual Report and Accounts for those who wish to look more deeply into Society affairs . |
| 13 | The dorsal fin is decorated with a black oval over a white backing and accounts for another popular name for this species , the Hi-Spot Rasbora . |
| 14 | PSR1706–44 lies within the 1° radius error circle of the COS-B source 2CG342–02 at ( epoch 1950 coordinates are used throughout ) and accounts for most , if not all , of the γ -ray flux from the area . |
| 15 | On many occasions we have increased the sensitivity of our measurements or made a new class of observations , only to discover new phenomena that were not predicted by the existing theory , and to account for these we have had to develop a more advanced theory . |
| 16 | These were , in descending order of status , the bushi ( warriors ) or samurai , who were the ruling class ; the peasantry , which owed its second ranking to its fundamental role in the national economy and accounted for some 80 per cent of the population ; the artisans ; and the merchants and traders . |
| 17 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |