Example sentences of "be accounted for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stockdale had taken control of Eagle Trust in the wake of the resignation and subsequent departure from the country of John Ferriday , and had discovered that £13.7m of funds could not be accounted for . |
| 2 | Corpus Christi College made the suggestion that he should sleep in Corpus but take his meals in his old college of Magdalene ; a proposal so bizarre that it should be accounted for by a motive , not to have at dinner a famously silent person , imagined as a wet blanket . |
| 3 | How can the blowing of such a bubble , and , once it was inflated and released , its durability , be accounted for ? |
| 4 | Why this should be so will be discussed in a moment but it does enable the other observations to be accounted for by a single theory . |
| 5 | Money was being spent , but money could be accounted for . |
| 6 | As a result of the expansion in foreign direct investment , trade deficits are no longer purely national concepts : a large chunk of a country 's exports and imports may be accounted for by foreign firms with bases there . |
| 7 | The results indicated that , with a high degree of probability , more than 99.8 per cent of the total collection could be accounted for . |
| 8 | The average labour input for a part-time farm was 1,752 hours , or 0.75 of a man-year : some of this would be accounted for by contract work carried out by the machinery group . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Doyle and Nixon had found that the toxicological activity of the mussel extracts in the rat bioassay was greater than could be accounted for by okadaic acid alone . |
| 11 | Robert Stephens showed in 1982 that a 2-year-old child in a high-density traffic area could ingest 54 per cent of its lead via the air ( some directly , but most from dust picked up on fingers and food ) , while 46 per cent would be accounted for in food and drink . |
| 12 | A sum of $3.5 million had gone missing from the first shipment of TOW missiles in 1985 and a further $24 million could not be accounted for from one of North 's Swiss bank accounts . |
| 13 | How much of eighteenth century poetry can be accounted for by this term is arguable , yet the idea is certainly useful with respect to Mary Leapor . |
| 14 | This can partly be accounted for by the social milieu in which many of them are set , that stereotypically ‘ Cowardian ’ world of elegant hotel bedrooms where the cocktail shaker is always within reach . |
| 15 | All but a hundred of these mill sites can still be accounted for . |
| 16 | Although evil could not be attributed to Ahura Mazdah , its existence had to be accounted for , and Zarathustra explained it in terms of free will . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The differences between chimpanzees and us can not be accounted for by differences in these proteins . |
| 19 | ‘ The decline and discontinuance of the use of the surfboard as civilization advances , ’ wrote Hiram Bingham , ‘ may be accounted for by the increase in modesty , industry and religion , without supposing as some have affected to believe , that missionaries have caused oppressive enactments against it . ’ |
| 20 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 21 | During the remainder of the century some one-third of the increase in energy consumption in the LDCs is likely to be accounted for by oil which means a reduction in its proportion of consumption from 55% today to 43% by the year 2000 . |
| 22 | Platelet aggregation induced by endoperoxides appeared to be greater than that which could be accounted for by the endoperoxides alone , and Hamberg et al ( 1975 ) were able to demonstrate that in platelets endoperoxides are further metabolised to a very unstable compound , thromboxane A 2 . |
| 23 | Very strict rules apply to those drugs which in the Act are called ‘ controlled drugs ’ ; each dose has to be accounted for in a Controlled Drugs Register , whether the drug is given in hospital or in the home . |
| 24 | If the association was perfect , all the points would lie on the line , and there would be no spread in the residuals ; 100 per cent of the original spread would be accounted for , and we would describe the two variables as being perfectly correlated . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | This could be accounted for by an initial Hercynian episode of stripping of Carboniferous overburden . |
| 29 | Although these figures suggest some recent increase , as des Forges and Harber record only about 40 for the period 1950 to 1960 , this would easily be accounted for by the great increase in regular observations at the coast . |
| 30 | Other sorts of seemingly intelligent behavioural variability , though , can not be accounted for either by ‘ noise ’ in the computer or by habituation . |