Example sentences of "not account for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 This , however , is not an adequate explanation because it can not account for the kind of statement made by the apprentice of his appreciation of the grandeur of work that was quoted by Willis ( 1976 ) and repeated earlier in this paper .
3 Paradoxical pain may well exist but is neither well documented nor common ; it does not account for the majority of cases of uncontrolled pain , and we are not aware of any evidence that it was an important factor in the care of the patient in the recent highly publicised court case .
4 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 .
5 Longer working hours do not account for the increase , because on the whole the ‘ normal ’ working week was reduced and holidays grew longer The number of married women employed on a part-time basis also grew rapidly The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD , expanded from the OEEC ) has suggested that hours of work decreased by about 0.3 per cent a year during the 1950s , and by 0.8 per cent a year during the 1960s .
6 The land alone can not account for the size of the region Gloucester came to control ; that derived from royal office and royal backing .
7 The land alone can not account for the size of the region Gloucester came to control ; that derived from royal office and royal backing .
8 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 .
9 And the figures do not account for the numbers of unreported cases .
10 While this may account for part of the gap in the gross weekly earnings of men and women , however , it can not account for the difference in hourly rates of pay .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 But of course grammatical modification can not account for the particulars of meaning which are signalled on particular occasions , Grammar can only denote degrees of generality .
15 More and more women are going it alone , and men are rendered homeless by housing allocation policies which do not account for the needs of the single and childless .
16 The mechanisms that might be responsible for these effects are in need of fuller specification but the effort would perhaps not be worthwhile since in fact they do not account for the results to be explained .
17 Although there is evidence to support Kinsbourne 's hypothesis ( Kinsbourne , 1975a ; Cohen , 1975a ) it can not account for the results of those studies in which opposite field superiorities have been obtained for verbal and non-verbal stimuli presented randomly or simultaneously to each half field of vision ( Terrace , 1959 ; Berlucchi , Brizzolara , Marzi , Rizzolatti and Umilta , 1974 ; Hines , 1975 ; Klein , Moscovitch and Vigna , 1976 ; Pirozollo and Rayner , 1977 ) .
18 They can not account for the artistry of the individual practitioner .
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