Example sentences of "have account for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be afraid to annoy foreign network-operators with new local services and so jeopardise the chances of selling them equipment , which has accounted for much of AT&T 's recent growth . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it is the growth of white-collar employment which has accounted for most of the expansion of the upper middle class . |
| 3 | No Talmudic saying was nearer to him than that at the end of the Kiddushin : ‘ When a man faces his Maker , he will have to account for those ( God-given ) pleasures of life which he failed to enjoy , ’ and the Mezeritzer Rabbi commented , albeit a little more warily , ‘ You may reach a compromise between evil and good by enjoying legitimate bodily pleasure and serving God at the same time . ’ |
| 4 | Galleries had to be cleared 36 times , which must have accounted for some 35 minutes delay . |
| 5 | Overall it would appear to have accounted for less than a tenth of the income of spiritualities ; in seven Norfolk parishes in 1658 the glebe varied from one-eighth to two-thirds of the living , though the average scarcely exceeded a quarter ; acreages ranged from one to fifty-two with a median of twenty-four in these and three other parishes . |
| 6 | In learning to account for its difference from non-Europe , it also had to account for this supremacy , for the unquestionable success it had had in imposing its hegemony on ‘ inferior ’ cultures . |
| 7 | Rocky had accounted for all his truckers , with the exception of his three buddies , Chuck , Jube and Red . |
| 8 | Analysts estimated in January 1991 that US airlines had lost about $2,000 million in 1990 , of which Eastern had accounted for some $600 million . |
| 9 | Laybacking had accounted for more than half his leader falls , and retreat did not bear thinking about . |
| 10 | Trade union-sponsored MPs , who in the 1935 Parliament had accounted for more than half the party , were now less than a third of the total . |
| 11 | Tim James , the council 's urban woodlands officer , said : ‘ Dutch elm disease has killed some of the trees and the high winds have accounted for some of the pine and larch . |