Example sentences of "account [prep] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fetal death is a collective term for all pregnancy wastages , at times accounted for as miscarriages , abortions and/or still births . |
| 2 | The IASC exposure draft proposes that certain preferred shares , for example those where the holder has the right to require redemption , be accounted for as liabilities . |
| 3 | The [ draft ] FRS contains requirements for determining whether capital instruments should be accounted for as liabilities . |
| 4 | Where this is the case , the FRED proposes that they be accounted for as liabilities . |
| 5 | The general value of this ratio is given by pF 1 /F s , where F s is the current price of one S&P500 index future ( $180 000 ) , F l is the current price of one NYSE Composite index future ( $100 000 ) , and p is the proportion of the market value of the shares quoted on the NYSE that is accounted for by companies in the S&P500 index ( 0.80 ) . |
| 6 | Foreign exchange earnings were planned to total $90,000 million , with $83,000 million of this to be accounted for by earnings from oil and gas exports . |
| 7 | the rising share of manufactured goods accounted for by imports . |
| 8 | Of the 2½ percentage points increase in the share of civil spending in total production about half is accounted for by services ( health and education ) and half by transfers . |
| 9 | Furthermore , even when examining recorded crimes only , changes in the figures may be accounted for by reasons other than the fact that the actual number of offences have changed , and there are a variety of other ways in which an increase in recorded crime can be accounted for . |
| 10 | This excess was largely accounted for by women ( 10/13 in group A v two of seven in group B ) . |
| 11 | He says : ‘ Tinnitus ( Latin for ringing ) is the name given to the subjective ( heard only by the person concerned ) experience of hearing sounds in the ear or head which have no basis of reality in the environment , that is to say , the sound can not be accounted for by vibrations coming from objects external to the patient . ’ |
| 12 | The differences between chimpanzees and us can not be accounted for by differences in these proteins . |
| 13 | For example , has argued that variation in virulence among a variety of human diseases may be accounted for by differences in the relationship between virulence and transmission . |
| 14 | It may be argued that the effects of physical-care experiences , though obscured later on by subsequent events , do at least have an impact at the time , and that much of the variation in infant behaviour can be accounted for by differences in training practices . |
| 15 | There were slight differences between Russians and Tatars ( a traditionally Muslim nationality ) in terms of religious observance and size of family ; but these were largely accounted for by differences in the age structures of the two groups . |
| 16 | But it appears to imply that we are all equally disposed to crime all the time ; there are no individual differences in motivation ; variations in individual criminal action are solely accounted for by variations in the constellations of incentives and disincentives that apply in each case . |
| 17 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 18 | Changes in output which can not be accounted for by changes in the input of capital and labour are assumed to be accounted for by autonomous shocks in technology . |
| 19 | For example , the NHS is ‘ labour intensive ’ and 70 per cent of its costs are accounted for by wages . |
| 20 | Some 21 per cent of all flows into unemployment by men who had previously been employed were accounted for in this way , slightly more than were accounted for by redundancy ( 20 per cent ) or dissatisfaction with pay or conditions ( 19 per cent ) and considerably more than were accounted for by dismissals ( 10 per cent ) ( Wood , 1982 ) . |
| 21 | The increased participation rates from the 1950s to the 1980s have been largely accounted for by reductions in the gaps in employment records around childbearing . |
| 22 | Indeed , of the category of " male part-timers " , 40 per cent are accounted for by men with temporary jobs , of whom the large majority ( 78 per cent ) are in seasonal , temporary or casual jobs . |
| 23 | Up to 1980 , the increase in real income for pensioners was mainly accounted for by increases in the basic pension and other social security payments . |
| 24 | Practically all the higher share of spending is accounted for by increases in the relative cost of providing them . |
| 25 | The former study compared carefully matched samples of British , French , and German factories , and having held as constant as possible factors such as size of enterprise , technology , and the firm 's environment , discovered substantial differences in the way work was organised in the three countries , concluding that these could best be accounted for by features of each nation 's culture , and in particular its educational and occupational structures . |
| 26 | Of those which are more than mundane , or artefacts of administrative or file-keeping practices , some can be accounted for in terms of plausible expectations of the organizational models , others only indirectly so , and yet others more difficult to explain . |
| 27 | In the moulding of form we saw that changes in shape of the embryo could be accounted for in terms of localized contractions and changes in cell adhesion . |
| 28 | Between 1952 and 1976 , more than two million urban jobs were lost that can not be accounted for in terms of national trends influencing unfavourable urban structures ( Danson , Lever and Malcolm , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | He suggests that to attribute extra suffering to one particular factor — age , length of unemployment , marital status , etc. — is too crude , as is the emphasis on individual responsibility ; the gross disparities between the numbers of jobs and the numbers of those seeking jobs can not be accounted for in terms of the individual psychological characteristics of the latter , nor can the rapid changes in the former . |
| 30 | Essentially , postclassical criminology sees crime as best accounted for in terms of the factors that influence the likelihood of ‘ given ’ motives being translated into action . |