exhaustive account

collocation in English

meaningsofexhaustiveandaccount

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exhaustive
adjective
uk
/ɪɡˈzɔː.stɪv/us
/ɪɡˈzɑː.stɪv/
complete and ...
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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 ofexhaustiveandaccountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is obviously impossible to give anexhaustiveaccountof all the book, given the wide range of subjects involved.
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Describing the neural correlates of such an experience may be informative but it does not provide anexhaustiveaccountof that experience (or the motivation for its pursuit).
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But what is the warrant for claiming that there cannot be a complete descriptive theory of law without anexhaustiveaccountof the ways that law can be defective?
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The project of analysis thereby aims at arriving at anexhaustiveaccountof all the parts that, together, make up the whole, with a view to resolving that whole.
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Our aim was to capture a representative sample of articles that used a variety of methods, rather than to obtain anexhaustiveaccountof the results themselves.
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Its goal is not and cannot be, at this stage of research on the topic, anexhaustiveaccountof 'non-hexachordal' musical pedagogy during those four centuries.
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I must not be understood to give anyexhaustiveaccountof the interests to be represented.
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Pragmatic guidelines have been proposed by different practitioners even though it is difficult to provide anexhaustiveaccountof such guidelines from practice.
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It never pretends to be anexhaustiveaccountof the events of 1965.
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They contain exhaustive accounts of events that happened in the village.
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He is noted by critics for his remarkably exhaustive accounts and for his tendency to avoid romanticizing his subjects' lives.
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