Example sentences of "[not/n't] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have ignored such central and prestigious characters in the drama is professor Wold of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , who is seeking to perfect a cheap , early diagnostic test for trisomy 21 during pregnancy on the interesting grounds that it costs £500,000 ( not accounting for inflation ) to look after a person with trisomy 21 for life . |
| 2 | This lower use of hospital inpatient facilities was not accounted for by the older age of the people in residential homes although fewer of all those aged 85 or more had spent time in hospital — 64 per cent against 80 per cent of those under 85 . |
| 3 | However , this study demonstrated that the increased prevalence of macrovascular complications was not accounted for by the increased frequency of cardiovascular risk factors including hypertension . |
| 4 | Could the bursts of gamma rays detected by astronomers over the past decade , and still not accounted for , possibly be white holes ? |
| 5 | These are not accounted for in the calorie figures . |
| 6 | Perhaps , it was surmised , another star had a near-miss with the sun , and supplied additional energy not accounted for in the angular momentum theory . |
| 7 | Their work is not accounted for , and so their further development potential is grossly neglected . |
| 8 | Impaired β cell function in non-insulin dependent diabetic subjects was not accounted for by low birth weight , and genetic or environmental factors are likely to be necessary for development of diabetes . |
| 9 | It is paralleled but surely not accounted for by the Greek practice of naked athletics ; but , whatever its origin , from now on it is a basic convention of art in Greece that males ( not females ) may be shown naked in any context . |
| 10 | Well , Victoria is Maggie 's baby , now , and he has Jonathon working all day and all night under his eye and –here is only you left not accounted for . |
| 11 | The ones not accounted for were in little pockets that were cut off and taken prisoner and I think that 's what happened to Terry . ’ |
| 12 | Is he saying that it has balances that are not accounted for by other services ? |
| 13 | Keeling quoted donor agency sources as saying that at least $3,000 million was not accounted for in the recently published annual report of the Central Bank of Nigeria and speculating that the money had been spent on costly commitments such as Nigeria 's participation in the ECOWAS peace-keeping force in Liberia , the holding of the Organization of African Unity summit in Abuja in June , and the start of work on construction of an aluminium smelter . |
| 14 | In addition to the projects , rows are provided for detachments , holidays , sickness , etc. , so that the total at the base of each column gives the full strength of the department , disposing of any arguments about resources not accounted for . |
| 15 | Although a parallel shift in average maturities means that part of the fall is not accounted for by increased competition , comparison of years with similar average maturities does show a decline in gross fees . |
| 16 | The definition of p is such that the averaged expectation value of any quantum operator Q is given by As a quantum-mechanical operator , p obeys the Heisenberg equation of motion A major advantage of the density-matrix formulation is that it is easy to augment this equation by terms representing the interactions not accounted for in H. In the cases of interest , these can be represented by simple excitation and decay terms . |
| 17 | However , the IAEA 's report also revealed that 228 grams of plutonium were not accounted for . |
| 18 | A palindrome arises for reasons that have nothing to do with transformational grammar ; puns undoubtedly perform some sort of linguistic operation even though they are not accounted for in the grammars ; etymology reveals monsters more absurd than the most ignorant folk-etymology can imagine . |
| 19 | ‘ We reckon some 300 to 400 grammes of nuclear weapons grade uranium is still not accounted for . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And the figures do not account for the numbers of unreported cases . |
| 22 | But the trouble is that they do not account for anything like all the shares of most firms . |
| 23 | In the same issue of the Lancet , Astra replied that Glaxo 's new test was scientifically unsound because it did not account for normal cell division ( which would also stimulate DNA synthesis ) . |
| 24 | Locke obviously recognized the implausibility of supposing that experience gives us these pieces of knowledge ; experience can not account for their certain applicability to all wholes , all numbers , or all promises . |
| 25 | The loss to Marxist theorising of all those elements which stress human individuality and specificity as central to the nature of experienced reality , means that Marx can not account for how we behave except as statistical averages . |
| 26 | It would be easy to dismiss ‘ softing ’ as an esoteric corner of the stock market which could be ignored , if it did not account for one deal in every six . |
| 27 | This extreme reductionism has failed simply because elements such as Pavlov 's ‘ conditioned reflexes ’ can not account for all aspects of behaviour . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Drew , on the other hand , could not account for his whereabouts . |