tentative account

Here is a tentative account of that notion:

The interpretations of the wedding festivities based on folk dances also varied and the performers sometimes gave surprisingly tentative accounts of the robust steps.

The authorship details of the tracts were recovered by later scholars of the Oxford Movement, with some tentative accounts of drafting.

This description is not based on modern acoustic analysis and relies on a much more dated phonological theory, so it should be regarded as a tentative account.

Stuart Handley writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography casts doubt on tentative accounts of his early life.

However, because legend and obfuscation cloud his work even more than that of the other pre-Socratic philosophers, one can give only a tentative account of his teachings, and some have questioned whether he contributed much to mathematics and natural philosophy.