Example sentences of "[not/n't] account for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This extreme reductionism has failed simply because elements such as Pavlov 's ‘ conditioned reflexes ’ can not account for all aspects of behaviour . |
| 2 | However , the tendency has been to assume that if behaviourist notions can not account for all aspects of language learning it can not account for any . |
| 3 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Without it , psychoanalytic theory could not account for all that it had been observed human beings could do to themselves and to one another . |
| 6 | If a law does not account for all that happens , then it has to be modified . |
| 7 | These changes in metabolic rate affect our rate of physiological time , although they can not account for all the changes in time perception we experience as we age . |
| 8 | Also , it can not account for all the regions of the universe . |
| 9 | The sea-launched ballistic missile system that we have been discussing does not account for all our nuclear arsenal and we must look at what is left . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Even if soil temperature is generally found to have a minimal influence on root mortality , the fact that rates of fine root turnover can vary substantially among virtually identical ecosystems needs to be reconciled with current knowledge and models of below-ground processes that do not account for this phenomenon . |
| 13 | Evidently the unique thoroughness of its muster book was complemented by a more rigorous standard of assessment than in most shires , since in 1522 personal wealth there averaged £97 per thousand acres , compared with as little as £61.7 in 1515 and £64 in 1524 , and , mostly having less than average wealth , the sixty-nine additional men roped in in 1522 can not account for this difference . |
| 14 | They argued that an interpretation in terms of the relative potency of crossed and uncrossed pathways could not account for this result . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The model involving hydrogen bonding to guanine also does not account for some features of cleavage at GpN sites . |
| 17 | Clayey deposits are not found below unit I ( refs 6 , 15 ) implying that climatic change alone can not account for these sediments . |
| 18 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 19 | It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period . |
| 20 | However , the tendency has been to assume that if behaviourist notions can not account for all aspects of language learning it can not account for any . |
| 21 | Mrs. Browne could n't account for that , unless it had been because of the wet weather . |
| 22 | 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 ? |