Example sentences of "[vb pp] account for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ingres , which contributed 62% to ASK 's third quarter revenues , is expected to account for some $243m of ASK 's turnover of $430m anticipated for its year to June 30 . |
| 2 | J. B. Watson in 1914 and other behaviourist thinkers ( Hull , Skinner ) believed that an acquired behaviour element , the conditioned reflex for example , could be made to account for all behaviour , because such an element could be treated as a ‘ building block in theory much in the same way that nineteenth-century physicists used ‘ atoms ’ to build up a theory of matter . |
| 3 | UK Birmingham-based IMI 's Uniplex Ltd office automation software outfit will next week announce the appointment of Margaret Gymer to the post of director of international services : she 'll head a new service and support unit the company is starting to look after that side of the business , which is now said to account for some 20% of the company 's revenue . |
| 4 | A number of general theories which have been used to account for such relationships are first described and evidence bearing on them is discussed . |
| 5 | Considerable variation was found within this population and comparisons are currently being made between those children who might be regarded as readers of poor , average and high ability to establish whether different patterns of cognitive abilities may be used to account for this variation . |
| 6 | Many ingenious hypotheses have been advanced to account for this supposed rise in NAIRU , the most promising of which is the notion of hysteresis discussed in the next section . |
| 7 | Indeed variations in profitability were found to account for some three-quarters of the variations in capital stock during this period ( European Economy , 1991 ) . |
| 8 | The theory developed to account for these findings , Lapse Theory , proposed that the special effect of sleep loss was to increase the number of lapses in attention , possibly through " microsleeps " . |
| 9 | Apart from these it is meant to account for all the reasons there can be for accepting authorities . |
| 10 | Livestock is estimated to account for some 15 per cent of global emissions of methane — one of the leading greenhouse gases . |
| 11 | Two hypotheses have been suggested to account for this : there is a high incidence of subclinical deep vein thrombosis ( DVT ) in pregnancy and leg ulceration increases with age . |
| 12 | A full factor group analysis of the motions of the entire cell is required to account for these , and we do not go into this process here . |
| 13 | The government has also failed to account for many hundreds who ‘ disappeared ’ in custody after an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1977 . |