Example sentences of "they [vb base] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
| 2 | Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test . |
| 3 | Without doubt , close and loving physical contact between child and mother , or surrogate mother , promotes both physical and emotional well-being in the infant ; while cursory and uncomfortable handling , lack of communication and the signs of " non-loving " implicit in them make for the opposite . |
| 4 | Some of them wait for it — Tory names ! |
| 5 | Two boys who were rescued from the fighting in Lebanon are back tonight at the hospital that rebuilt their bodies and gave them hope for the future . |
| 6 | ‘ I believe that if the Institute were to make one of its inspections , it would not find anything to give them cause for concern over the way in which we have conducted our professional work , ’ Ms Harris says . |
| 7 | Have , in the classic phrase of Raymond Chandler , a man come in the door with a gun , make your detective them run for his life or chase the gun-toting man . |
| 8 | The simplest way to program the NSA 's computers at Morwenstow and Menwith Hill is to have them watch for specific names , addresses , telephone and telex numbers , as in the case of Kinnock 's call to Turnbull . |
| 9 | But if that 's the case , he 's obviously so accurate that maybe he should try hitting them close for a change ! |
| 10 | If you contact them ask for the Lineco Catalogue No L533–1000 . |
| 11 | They fear for their own livelihoods if it is closed . |
| 12 | They lay for a while catching their breath , then returned to Nettles . |
| 13 | They lay for a while , their hands lightly clasped , each deeply engrossed in their own thoughts . |
| 14 | They lay for a little , amicably holding hands . |
| 15 | Indeed there are those who rely to such an extent on the time they gain for reading on trains that travelling by road is not an option . |
| 16 | They no longer guard harems ; instead , as in the Mahabharata , they dance for a living . |
| 17 | They dance for hours . |
| 18 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |
| 19 | NATIONAL Power and PowerGen , the privatised power generators , are making changes in the way they account for direct sales to industrial companies to reduce the risk of discrimination and cross-subsidies . |
| 20 | Red dwarfs are faint , cool and small , and they account for 70 per cent of the Galaxy 's stars . |
| 21 | The SMMT estimates that they account for 40 per cent of all kits sold in the UK . |
| 22 | The company claims that servers will account for $1,000m of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 23 | The company claims that servers will account for $1bn of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 24 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
| 25 | They account for our general sense of the appropriacy and inappropriacy of language as reflected in impromptu observations about style , varying from Queen Victoria 's remark on Mr Gladstone that " he speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting " , to more everyday comments like " No one would ever speak like that " , and to attributions like colloquial , journalistic , biblical , childlike , pedantic . |
| 26 | But among them , they account for the great majority of all innovation opportunities . |
| 27 | Together they account for nearly two-thirds of the entire temporary labour force but rather under half of total employment . |
| 28 | They account for 41 per cent of the entire labour force , but 54 per cent of the temporary labour force . |
| 29 | They are also disproportionately represented amongst a particular category of temporary workers , namely those working on a seasonal , temporary or casual basis , where they make up 64 per cent of the total , and amongst agency workers , where they account for 63 per cent of the total . |
| 30 | In the United States , for example they account for 7% of all record sales ( compared with 1% in 1975 ) , thus exceeding sales of jazz and classical music . |