Example sentences of "not account for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this explanation does not account for the second peak . |
| 2 | Although Doody 's notion of incarnation in poetry really does not account for the hundreds of poems written by women to the standard abstractions such as sleep , pity , and wisdom , yet there is certainly a strain in the poetry of eighteenth century women which might take as its best emblem Esther Lewis perched on her stilts . |
| 3 | The knock on the head alone could not account for the glazed look in her eyes . |
| 4 | Culture conflict between the British and Sri Lankans over the boundaries of crime , concepts of status and appropriate punishments was real , but it did not account for the general approach to the courts discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 5 | Yet this alone can not account for the negative results , for the weight of evidence is such that the general conclusion can hardly be challenged . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Environmental health experts say that increased reporting can not account for the total increase . |
| 8 | Moreover , his proposal can not account for the close relationship between pairs of sentences such as : |
| 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 | Because the revenue account is determined by matters of finance , it does not account for the annual cost of running the authority . |
| 11 | A technical explanation of this kind however does not account for the continuing one-man-band nature of many such businesses , which prevents growth for organizational as well as market reasons . |
| 12 | This supposition is , I believe , based on an impoverished concept of the nature of grammar , one which does not account for the complementary functioning of lexis and syntax as an essential resource for the negotiation of meaning in context . |
| 13 | But this alone does not account for the remarkable frequency of the in the extract ( fifty-one instances , ( 42 ) , because even on their first mention , features of the scene are generally introduced by the . |
| 14 | This takes us back to explanations similar to those suggested for the variation in group size early in these studies ( Crook and Gartlan 1966 ) but these do not account for the massive gregariousness of the species under optimum conditions when a more even dispersion of the population would reduce the costs of foraging . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Second , steady loss , albeit at differing rates from the two populations , did not account for the observed pattern . |
| 18 | It seems , therefore , that sample pore-space or matrix properties can not account for the different trends in electrical conductivity . |