Example sentences of "[Wh det] account for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publication details major financial losses and fatalities caused by minor events and provides a prescription for reducing these losses , which account for many millions of working days lost each year . |
| 2 | But Carl Prean may not be accommodated on one issue , the exclusion of German Bundesliga results , which account for most of his successes . |
| 3 | In addition there are rehearsals , which account for most of the time spent on music . |
| 4 | Conversely , musculo-skeletal problems , which account for few deaths of those aged 65 + , are a major cause of disability in the community . |
| 5 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 6 | Filter tip cigarettes , which account for some 97% of cigarettes sales in the UK , yield less tar than plain cigarettes although some filter brands yield more carbon monoxide . |
| 7 | Thus , what is required is a special type of description which accounts for all types of differences and equivalents . |
| 8 | As Shaw and Stockford ( 1979 , p. 122 ) state , ‘ it is the problems of implementing ‘ socially-based ’ policies for rural areas through the medium of the statutory planning system which accounts for much of the gap between society 's expectations of planning , and the results in practice' . |
| 9 | It is this high degree of order which accounts for many of the physical properties of solids . |
| 10 | Only 15% of the population of Thailand lives in the Bangkok area , which accounts for half of GDP . |
| 11 | The data does not include Britain 's trade with EC countries which accounts for half of total business . |
| 12 | Skippers in the Scottish white fish fleet , which accounts for most of the UK 's North Sea haddock catch , are particularly aggrieved at the EC 's ‘ swingeing ’ cut in quota this year . |
| 13 | This pattern holds for nitrate , which accounts for most of the nitrogen in the bay , and especially for nitrogen from ammonia , which , though a small part of the total , is far more prevalent in rainwater than in run-off . |
| 14 | The rapid expansion was due to development of the country 's mineral resources , dominated by diamonds ( which contributed over 84 per cent of export earnings ) and the beef industry ( which accounts for most of agriculture 's 3 per cent contribution to GDP ) . |
| 15 | Ms Cann accordingly drew up a second deal , which accounted for all the different royalties ( television , merchandising and so forth ) separately . |
| 16 | The rector of Weston-Longville in Norfolk was well placed to appreciate the contrast between the six-figure income of Prinny at Carlton House , the building of which accounted for much of his debt , and the nine pounds annual wage he paid his servant Ben Leggatt . |
| 17 | There were , however , a number of variables other than positive discrimination policies , which accounted for this relationship . |
| 18 | The figures also had to bear the cost of rationalising the company 's Thermalite aircrete block factories in the UK onto three sites , which accounted for most of a £10.4 million exceptional charge . |
| 19 | ICL Plc has been been ringing the changes , not only with boardroom shuffles ( CI No 2,125 ) , but with a push towards what it calls more ‘ autonomous business groupings ’ and a greater emphasis on software and services , the area which accounted for some 60% of UK sales in 1992 . |
| 20 | The major spending services of the Metropolitan counties ( police , fire , public transport and probation ) , which accounted for some 70 per cent of their expenditure , were transferred to such joint boards ( notably Fire and Civil Defence Boards , Police Boards , Transport Boards ) . |
| 21 | The economic problems of Trinidad and Tobago were , however , temporarily relieved by the Gulf crisis which boosted the petroleum sector which accounted for some 80 per cent of foreign exchange earnings . |
| 22 | Neither was there the more deadly flak which confronted the interdiction or pre-Invasion attacks on railway centres , which accounted for some of our best PFF crews . |
| 23 | Scientists report that 150 dead or dying dolphins washed up on the shores of Italy and Sicily since June were infected by the same morbillivirus which accounted for those killed in 1990 [ see ED no . |
| 24 | Redundancies , which accounted for 37 per cent of job losses , dismissals , which accounted for nearly 15 per cent , and voluntary resignations , which accounted for another 37 per cent , were all more important . |
| 25 | What accounts for these social improvements across the whole field of human affairs , between your age and mine ? |
| 26 | What accounted for this stubborn resistance of nationalities to the predicted assimilation ? |