Example sentences of "[adv] be used explain " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Guidance ’ could only be used to explain , amplify or supplement the general objectives or provisions of the Act . |
| 2 | However , at the other end of the scale these relations may complement each other , and thus be used to explain the stability of a particular form of social organisation . |
| 3 | However , it is patently obvious that parents can be a good or bad influence and example for their children , and this fact can hardly be used to explain present patterns of crime . |
| 4 | The idea can also be used to explain the fact that the galaxies are all receding from each other because , just like the Big Bang , the ‘ Little Bangs ’ create not space ( and trivia like matter and energy but spacetime . |
| 5 | Clearly these perspectives are not restricted to teacher responses to innovations proposed by others , but can also be used to explain why particular changes are promoted or envisaged in the first place . |
| 6 | Historical materialism can also be used to explain the history of penal thought sketched in the previous chapter . |
| 7 | The ‘ relative income ’ hypothesis was proposed by the American economist J.S. Duesenberry in 1949 and this theory can also be used to explain the apparent conflict in income-consumption data . |
| 8 | For the latent structure analysts , however , the answers index deeper motivational and disposition characteristics of social actors and , when appropriately processed , reveal a respondent 's psychosocial orientation which can then be used to explain social conduct and behaviour . |