straightforward account
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstraightforwardandaccount
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straightforward
adjective
uk/ˌstreɪtˈfɔː.wəd/us/ˌstreɪtˈfɔːr.wɚd/
easy to understand ...
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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 ofstraightforwardandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, the moststraightforwardaccountof such deficits is that they arise because our stored knowledge is differentiated according to category of object.
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This book sets out astraightforwardaccountof the opera, exposing the half-truths and legends that have proliferated since its first production in i 791.
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In particular, it provides astraightforwardaccountof case matching and case resolution phenomena.
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In particular, the transparent vowels receive astraightforwardaccountwithout depending on input underspecification.
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This gives astraightforwardaccountof 'paradoxical ' examples like (91) (repeated here).
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Further analysis of the data revealed that neither explanation provides astraightforwardaccountof the patterns.
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This book sets out astraightforwardaccountof the opera, exposing the half-truths and legends that have proliferated since its first production in 1791.
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It is no longer astraightforwardaccountof an event, but it is definitely reflective.
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Progovac's (1992, 1993) approach seems to provide the moststraightforwardaccountfor the tensed-infinitive asymmetry observed in this study.
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The decoupling of information structure from phrase structure is entirely consistent with the evidence presented in the previous section and permits astraightforwardaccountof discourse\\syntax mismatches.
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The recognition here that processes may share events permits astraightforwardaccountof terms such as ba + ca and ab + ac.
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Socialization theory offers astraightforwardaccountof the acquisition of gendered identities.
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Ray's original cut of the film was a much morestraightforwardaccountof events but while editing the film he realized that it was not good enough.
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Instead, they hear straightforward accounts of people who have no greater aspiration than to go to the same school as their brothers and sisters.
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