historical account

collocation in English

meaningsofhistoricalandaccount

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historical
adjective
uk
/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us
/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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account
noun
uk
/əˈkaʊnt/us
/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The two chapters that follow provide a goodhistoricalaccountof migration and immigration control.
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She provides anhistoricalaccountof the legal milestones concerning ' incompetent ' patients and issues of resuscitation.
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The chapter also includes a shorthistoricalaccountof research on left hemisphere dominance.
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Thishistoricalaccountis brought up to date with the contribution made by molecular biologists.
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Chapter 1 is ahistoricalaccountincluding a great deal of speculation.
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Symbolically, this gradual enrichment of the style corresponds to an analogous process in thehistoricalaccount.
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These authors followed what was by then the usual pattern of combining natural history with a more properlyhistoricalaccount.
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This is a concisehistoricalaccountof the field and the movement toward a purely constraint-based theory.
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They reject a 'unidisciplinary' approach to examining popular music, for example by using a purely musicological or purelyhistoricalaccount.
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This argument poses a challenge to the standardhistoricalaccountof the political development of federal antipoverty policy.
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Within the constraints outlined above, the author has given us a fairly detailedhistoricalaccountspanning five millennia.
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For that purpose anyhistoricalaccountis too late.
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What he presents in the form of anhistoricalaccountis nothing more than a report about how he believes events proceeded.
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But it also needs an especially clear understanding of what the function of psychological description might be taken to involve in anhistoricalaccount.
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One is to trace their genesis in a shared context, to give ahistoricalaccountthat is rich enough to encompass seemingly diverse cultural manifestations.
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He does so in a footnote which appears as one of a series that present ahistoricalaccountof work on imaginaries.
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In this sense the availability of individual level information can increase the confidence in anhistoricalaccountwithout actually becoming part of the account itself.
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The paper develops a socialhistoricalaccountof this relationship, and reflects on its significance for the history of selfhood in the twentieth century.
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We have presented ahistoricalaccountof the notion of "indigenous" language with the goal of refining the study of language endangerment.
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Each section begins with a concisehistoricalaccountof the country concerned, and then describes the variety in terms of its phonology, grammar, and lexis.
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Anhistoricalaccountof the various theories, techniques and instruments, and the pioneers who invented or discovered them, is thoughtfully presented throughout the book.
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This subjective detachment from the past corresponded to a process of objectification of the subject material - that is, preparing material for becoming part of ahistoricalaccount.
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Hishistoricalaccountof the matter might perhaps have been a little more complete.
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