Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [not/n't] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmental health experts say that increased reporting can not account for the total increase . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Moreover , his proposal can not account for the close relationship between pairs of sentences such as : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Without it , psychoanalytic theory could not account for all that it had been observed human beings could do to themselves and to one another . |
| 7 | An attentional model can not account for the statistically significant ear-by-stimulus type interaction . |
| 8 | Religion also gives answers to questions that science can not account for , such as the beginning of the world . |
| 9 | Some of Althusser 's critics have pointed out that this monolithic conception of the role of ideology can not account for the vast variety of ‘ ideological universes ’ found in modern capitalist states , some conformist and others overtly subversive . |
| 10 | Locke obviously recognized the implausibility of supposing that experience gives us these pieces of knowledge ; experience can not account for their certain applicability to all wholes , all numbers , or all promises . |