Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to now , the manufacturers had not been accounting for dismantling personal computers in their construction , so it 's still a very difficult process . |
| 2 | According to Politis , 200 grammes of dioxin have not been accounted for . |
| 3 | Mr Trimble said large amounts of the £270,000 spent on the programme have not been accounted for and those responsible should be brought to justice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The differences between chimpanzees and us can not be accounted for by differences in these proteins . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Other sorts of seemingly intelligent behavioural variability , though , can not be accounted for either by ‘ noise ’ in the computer or by habituation . |
| 9 | A strategy for handling toxic wastes is beginning to emerge , because of EEC directives , but a quarter of the wastes produced by the Republic can not be accounted for . |
| 10 | He says : ‘ Tinnitus ( Latin for ringing ) is the name given to the subjective ( heard only by the person concerned ) experience of hearing sounds in the ear or head which have no basis of reality in the environment , that is to say , the sound can not be accounted for by vibrations coming from objects external to the patient . ’ |
| 11 | Goyigamas were substantially over-represented , a fact which can not be accounted for entirely by their agricultural pursuits . |
| 12 | But it is equally clear that its nature can not be accounted for by demonstrating its rules by a random use of any lexical items that come to mind . |
| 13 | Attention is drawn to the statement in TR794 that ‘ the tax consequences of pensions can not be accounted for in isolation from potential deferred tax effects from other sources ' , as , for example , ‘ deferred tax arising from sources other than pensions may enhance the prospective recoverability of tax arising in respect of pension payments ’ . |
| 14 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 15 | This subject can not be accounted for completely within psychology , so psychology tries to exclude it ; but it keeps intruding in it ( Bem 1983 , Gilligan 1982 , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | He suggests that to attribute extra suffering to one particular factor — age , length of unemployment , marital status , etc. — is too crude , as is the emphasis on individual responsibility ; the gross disparities between the numbers of jobs and the numbers of those seeking jobs can not be accounted for in terms of the individual psychological characteristics of the latter , nor can the rapid changes in the former . |
| 17 | Two peptide sequences could not be accounted for from the cDNA sequence . |
| 18 | Although difficult to measure , these differences can not be accounted for simply by their accompanying economic differences . |
| 19 | We have seen how our feeling that a particular stretch of language in some way hangs together , or has unity , ( that it is , in other words , discourse ) , can not be accounted for in the same way as our feeling for the acceptability of a sentence . |
| 20 | Does it indicate that the meaning of an idiom can not be inferred from ( or , more precisely , can not be accounted for as a compositional function of ) the meanings the parts carry IN THAT EXPRESSION ? |
| 21 | The definition must be understood as stating that an idiom is an expression whose meaning can not be accounted for as a compositional function of the meanings its parts have when they are not parts of idioms . |
| 22 | Since the Unemployed Flow Survey reported no significant difference between men and women in this respect , the variation in the results obtained from the Cohort Study can not be accounted for by its concentration on men . |
| 23 | The above average rates of leukaemia in the study area can not be accounted for by these findings . |
| 24 | Moreover , they can not be accounted for merely by reference to spatial differences in social composition . |
| 25 | Despite Government counter-claims that this increase is due to 1986 changes in definitions of accidents from minor to major and fatal categories , all the increases can not be accounted for by the redefinition . |
| 26 | As Box reminds us , and as we discussed in Chapter Five , the arrest rate is higher for young blacks ( Stevens and Willis 1979 ) and these can not be accounted for entirely by differences in criminal activity . |
| 27 | This supposition made the marriage bar popular in the press , and accounted for the weakness of an occupational group such as married women teachers , whose position could not be accounted for in terms of lower levels of skill or poor unionisation . |
| 28 | Orders received , which relate to revenues , would not be accounted for until invoices had been sent out . |
| 29 | Some constructs may reflect pre-verbal bases of organization which can not be accounted for by rational explanation . |
| 30 | Importantly , the difference in concordance rates could not be accounted for by the different concordance rates for alcoholism alone . |