Example sentences of "explanation [be] [conj] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only possible explanation is that they are holding a wooden effigy . |
| 2 | One explanation is that they are meant to confuse a predator such as a lion — the zebra 's chief enemy — by creating an optical illusion . |
| 3 | In consequence , it has been claimed that the buildings were seldom used , but a more likely explanation is that they were kept scrupulously clean for official travellers . |
| 4 | The more likely explanation is that she was pressurising him to leave your daughter to marry her . |
| 5 | The only possible explanation is that it is employed by mother cats when out with their nearly fully-grown kittens , to help focus their attention on potential prey , as part of a general hunt-training process . |
| 6 | So the point of conclusion is if the myth is different in the Bible then the likely explanation is that it was tampered with , but that the scribes and the people who wrote the Bible altered the and they changed it round why should they change this myth ? |
| 7 | The likely explanation is that he is feeling contemplative , a little introspective , and he wants a quiet evening at home without the sort of chit-chat that might drown out the TV football commentary . |
| 8 | If I find in myself a desire for which no experience in this world can satisfy , the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world . |