Example sentences of "account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My various crops have competed not only with weeds but also with each other , a major factor in the profit and loss account for the plot . |
| 2 | Every year a number of trailers are rolled over on our roads and trailer accidents account for a great deal of glider repairs . |
| 3 | Launch failures account for a very high proportion of gliding accidents , making cable break practice a very important aspect of glider training . |
| 4 | The latissimus dorsi account for the very impressive ‘ V ’ shape of athletes and bodybuilders . |
| 5 | Your income and savings are not taken into account for the reduction scheme . |
| 6 | The national brewers account for more than 90 per cent of total lager production . |
| 7 | With little promotional support , cask ale sales are rising and now account for 20 per cent of the total beer market . |
| 8 | In fact it is the Templars , some of whose ritual survives in the practices of modern Freemasonry , who account for Pound 's interest in Poitiers , one of their principal centres . |
| 9 | Low fat hard and soft cheeses account for 8 per cent of sales . |
| 10 | However , retail sales account for only 40 per cent of consumer spending . |
| 11 | Stockholders account for 60 per cent of the 20 million tonnes of steel sold in the UK each year . |
| 12 | ‘ Although these groups presently account for only 7 per cent of Aids cases in the UK they represent a reservoir from which the spread into the general heterosexual population can occur . |
| 13 | Acute care operations account for 93 per cent of sales and 94 per cent of profits . |
| 14 | Investigation revealed the sale of at least 63 works in the past six months ; yesterday a source close to Charles Saatchi was prepared to concede that the volume of sales was higher than previously stated , and that the works disposed of account for some 10 to 12 per cent of the collection , which suggests a true figure of between 70 and 100 individual sales . |
| 15 | In modern Britain , a mere six publishers now account for 80 per cent of all daily , Sunday , and local newspaper sales ( Coxall and Robins , 1989 , p. 312 ) . |
| 16 | Thus , leaving the graduated scheme out of account for a moment , the position we have reached today is that the state pays to all retired persons , without regard to means , a pension roughly of subsistence value . |
| 17 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 18 | Account for the previous week , he is busy filling in the end-of-month returns required by Company Headquarters . |
| 19 | Small reckons that foxes account for £2,000 worth of lambs a year ( assuming £35 for a store lamb ) on his farm . |
| 20 | Macdonald suggests that foxes account for just one in every 15 or 20 lambs that die on Scottish hills . |
| 21 | Assuming that the lenders will agree to defer capital repayments , and the fixed charge of £207,192 quoted in Table III becomes applicable , a projected profit and loss account for 1992 can be prepared . |
| 22 | The largest 25 producers account for more than 50% of the area planted and it is their names which are most often seen on merchant 's lists . |
| 23 | The symbol of each of the 10 contesting parties is printed on ballot papers for the illiterate voters who account for 60 per cent of the electorate . |
| 24 | Its virtual monopoly on the allegiance of the Ovambo , who account for more than half Namibia 's population of 1.3 million , all but guarantees Swapo more than half the voters . |
| 25 | Unmarried mothers — of all ages — account for only one third of the total number . |
| 26 | Hence , Britain 's five biggest supermarket groups now account for more than 60 per cent of all grocery sales . |
| 27 | He said that imports through European Community countries now account for half of cocaine seizures , and ‘ the practical reality is we can not afford to have open frontiers with countries like the Netherlands , because the consequence is that drugs in increasing numbers come into our countries . ’ |
| 28 | But Carl Prean may not be accommodated on one issue , the exclusion of German Bundesliga results , which account for most of his successes . |
| 29 | It is , of course , possible that factors specific to both economies account for the same movement . |
| 30 | Ethnic minority groups account for 3.9 per cent of the economically-active working age population in Britain and about 10 per cent in London . |