Example sentences of "it [modal v] not [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It worked well enough for some , but it ca n't work for all . |
| 3 | It would n't hurt for some of them throwing away but none the right size of course . |
| 4 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Also , it can not account for all the regions of the universe . |
| 7 | 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 . |