Example sentences of "these [noun pl] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether , these groups account for about a quarter of all sales by Japanese firms . |
| 2 | The illustrative programme of additional expenditure from January 1993 , set out in Appendix 1 of The Future of Our Qualification , does include programmes ‘ to enhance firms ' profitability ’ and ‘ to help firms translate audit regulation into a profitable opportunity ’ , but these activities account for only £210,000 of the total additional expenditure of almost £2m . |
| 3 | As yet , these schools account for only a small amount of annual expenditure — 3 million in 1989–90 — but the government 's expenditure plans provide for this sum to increase ( to 20 million by 1991–2 ) as more schools choose to ‘ opt out ’ of LEA control and financing ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.1 ) . |
| 4 | These companies account for 82% of Scotch Whisky output . |
| 5 | This reveals that these companies accounted for about 40 per cent of manufacturing industry 's net assets , employment , and inward direct investment from overseas ( excluding oil company investment ) , 40–50 per cent of visible exports , 70 per cent of expenditure on industrial scientific research and development , and about 75 per cent of direct investment by UK companies ( excluding oil ) in manufacturing overseas . |
| 6 | These movements account for 75 per cent . |
| 7 | These calculations account for the enthusiasm with which some reformers embraced and recommended models for the development of self-regulation amongst slaves . |
| 8 | As levels with ν > 0 are normally not significantly populated , these bands account for most of the intensity in an absorption spectrum . |
| 9 | In the same report ( UNEP 1982 : 265 ) , it is claimed that the total area being reclaimed by irrigation is probably about the same as is being abandoned through salinisation , alkalinisation and water-logging , and that these problems account for the loss of about 2–3 million ha of the world 's best agricultural land each year . |
| 10 | These studies accounted for 22% of published original articles by 1991 . |
| 11 | According to Wang Yangzu , deputy director of the agency , these businesses account for only 4 per cent of polluters but are responsible for over 60 per cent of the total industrial pollution caused . |
| 12 | These observations account for the distinction of usage between make and cause quite adequately . |
| 13 | These items accounted for only £17m in 1991 : in 1992 they are put at £28m . |
| 14 | How are these differences accounted for ? |
| 15 | These diseases account for 71 per cent of deaths in those aged 65 + . |
| 16 | These tests account for 25 per cent of the final marks , a combined mark of 60 per cent or more ( grades A , B , C or D ) securing success in the theoretical part of the final examination . |
| 17 | These theorists accounted for the high rates of crime found in the broken-down inner-city areas in terms of ‘ social disorganisation ’ . |
| 18 | By 1983 these services accounted for almost £I billion of the annual budget and any savings made there could be transferred to the main activity of treating patients . |
| 19 | Between them , these bacteria account for many losses suffered by fishkeepers . |
| 20 | As Wigglesworth suggested , only perinatal deaths due to asphyxia in labour and immaturity directly reflect the effectiveness of medical care , and these categories accounted for only 16% and 23% of perinatal deaths , respectively , in this series — an average of 46 deaths a year from an average of over 11000 births occurring in several hospitals . |