adequate account
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadequateandaccount
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adequate
adjective
uk/ˈæd.ə.kwət/us/ˈæd.ə.kwət/
enough or satisfactory for a ...
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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 ofadequateandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofadequate account
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Adamastor seems incapable of providing anadequateaccountof his life and purpose.
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Anadequateaccountshould help explain why interdependence/interrelationship is a factor.
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Merchant suggests that using cyclic syllabification could provide anadequateaccountin a level-ordered framework.
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Anyadequateaccount, it may be objected, must make that tighter connection.
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In addition, subcultural theory does not offer anadequateaccountof music.
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And it seems to me that (1) does not provide for anadequateaccountof practical difference.
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It is further agreed that neither provides anadequateaccountof critical activity and its role in science.
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Most observers recognise that anyadequateaccountof the region's poor performance must extend well beyond narrowly economic factors.
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However, anadequateaccountof the phonological differences between epenthetic and intrusive vowels seems to require explicit reference to syllables.
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The report failed to takeadequateaccountof that.
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Missing is anadequateaccountof psychological mechanisms by which the desire for power or control give rise to the claim to be possessed.
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As for the present study, even if we were to focus only on the production data, none of these explanations provides anadequateaccount.
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A third reason is that it is not anadequateaccountof how we act in the world around us: it is an abstraction.
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Anadequateaccountof these effects should also constitute an important measure of support for the linguistic principles and structures which underline the account.
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We seem to be missing anadequateaccountof why moral judgments have the authority they do within our social lives.
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These data also relate to historical costs that may not takeadequateaccountof new and relatively expensive drugs, notably the proton pump inhibitors.
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As a result, they may not, for example, takeadequateaccountof the customs and conventions relating to the employment of women in certain societies.
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Anadequateaccountmust accommodate the relevance of the group and so make clear the meaning of the obligation as well.
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For the falsificationist, theories are created as speculative and tentative conjectures in order to give some form ofadequateaccountof a particular phenomenon.
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On the other, it is insufficient to provide a complete andadequateaccountfor the attested facts of the o-fronting pattern.
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Anadequateaccountin either framework was found to require the postulation of underspecified and, in some instances, nonadult-like underlying representations.
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Thus, deviation itself requires further elaboration and a nonstatistical definition if the "developmental deviation" thesis is to be anadequateaccountof disorder.
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But any explanatory framework, to be minimally satisfactory within that community, must at the very least provide anadequateaccountof those linguistically central experiences.
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If these observations about likely reactions and the understandings underlying them are granted, they must be accommodated by anyadequateaccountof collective preferences. ii.
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Many studies drawing inferences about causation have not takenadequateaccountof measurement issues, or person effects on the environment, or the possibility of genetic mediation.
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