Example sentences of "failure account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | recognize Foucault 's political limits : failure to account for change , and the difficult relationship between discourse and realities ( 1984 : 108–9 ) . |
| 2 | For example , the failure to account for such characteristics as ‘ frailty ’ , which vary from individual to individual , can lead to systematic exaggeration of the benefits of medical treatments . |
| 3 | Likewise , the failure to account for varying degrees of personal ‘ inertia ’ may lead to an incorrect assessment of the role of unemployment in migration . |
| 4 | The failure to account for pyloric loss and duodenogastric reflux means that any true change in gastric secretion could be masked by changes in transpyloric fluid flux ; the effect of swallowed saliva is at present impossible to correct for . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , variceal haemorrhage was the cause of death in almost half the patients who died during their first hospital admission while infection and hepatorenal failure accounted for most of the rest . |