Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holdings of unlisted shares must not account for more than 15 per cent of total investment . |
| 2 | As regards content , the convention established that , where practicable , a majority of European works should be screened ; as regards advertising , it established that advertisements should not account for more than 15 per cent of daily transmission time . |
| 3 | He 's on the go every single night , which may or may not account for his upcoming divorce . ’ |
| 4 | These may not account for many university graduates ( although relatively more in Scotland ) , but they are rather more important in the polytechnics and colleges , especially in the latter where such multi-subject combined or general degrees are quite common ( outside Scotland ) . |
| 5 | These results indicate that a pretranslational mechanism contributes to the reduction in ATF1 protein levels observed during differentiation but may not account for all of the reduction . |
| 6 | Drew , on the other hand , could not account for his whereabouts . |
| 7 | Since the scale was twenty-three miles to an inch , it was possible that a deviation of two or three miles would not be marked , but that could not account for the tarmac . |
| 8 | However , Willie was certain that this could not account for the strange noise , so he continued , only to find the noise started again even louder . |
| 9 | Doreen was convinced he was being unreasonable , but she could not account for her intense feelings of rage . |
| 10 | Although the timescale of artificial selection experiments means that new mutations can contribute to the responses , in the above experiments accumulation of partially recessive mutations could not account for the decline in early performance , because the drop persisted in crosses between ‘ old ’ lines . |
| 11 | Psychoanalytic theory reached a point where it could not account for all the observations made within the analytic setting , nor for the murdering impulses shown in mankind 's historical and cultural development . |
| 12 | Without it , psychoanalytic theory could not account for all that it had been observed human beings could do to themselves and to one another . |
| 13 | Contemporary observers were quite clear that the modest decline in marriage around 1870 could not account for more than 10 per cent of the fall in births ( Yule 1906 ) . |
| 14 | They argued that an interpretation in terms of the relative potency of crossed and uncrossed pathways could not account for this result . |
| 15 | The women at the corner-shop remarked upon the change that had come over him , and could not account for it . |
| 16 | The knock on the head alone could not account for the glazed look in her eyes . |
| 17 | He knew about Lamarck 's theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics , but dismissed this as a secondary process that could not account for the whole range of adaptations ( he must also have been aware of the strong opposition to Lamarckism from Owen and the conservative forces in science ) . |
| 18 | Yet Richard , who always put each section of his life , when it was finished with , quietly behind him , and liked to be able to give a rational explanation for everything , could not account for this , his attachment to Lord Jim . |
| 19 | Although there is a slight reduction in the number of cells per well over the culture period this could not account for the reduction in EGF binding seen . |
| 20 | Mrs. Browne could n't account for that , unless it had been because of the wet weather . |
| 21 | To Neil , hide-bound Englishman that he was , Philip Arbuthnot was best described as Irish , because he could n't account for him in any other way . |
| 22 | No , Newman had detected something he could n't account for . |
| 23 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 24 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 25 | But the main effect of the Candida toxins is to depress the immune system — while this may well be important in perpetuating the Candida infection , it would not account for the symptoms described above . |
| 26 | Italian farmers claimed that some of its modern manifestations were inspired by pesticide , but pesticide would not account for the hue of those ravishing little sprigged seaweed trees on the Tuscan hillsides in the frescoes at Monte Oliveto . |
| 27 | Though an increased incidence of cancer could be due to ascertainment bias because hypertensive patients are under closer medical surveillance than normotensive patients , this would not account for the association between mortality from cancer and blood pressure . |
| 28 | If similar figures were applied to man , then clearly an increase of only 43% in liver protein synthesis would not account for the reported increases in whole body protein synthesis . |
| 29 | ‘ That ca n't account for it ! ’ |
| 30 | Now I ca n't account for that , because he ought to have strong ones did n't he , if he did all that stuff there ? |