Example sentences of "can [be] explained in " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I shall do now is try to back up this last statement by sketching some of the characteristics of childish thought , showing how they can be explained in constructivist terms . |
| 2 | This impairment can be explained in a straightforward manner if one assumes that damage has occurred to the part of the reading system that involves addressed phonology . |
| 3 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 4 | The same disagreement has emerged more recently in the context of human language acquisition , in the debate between those who , like Noam Chomsky , suppose that human beings have an innate capacity to acquire language , and the behaviourists , who argue that language acquisition can be explained in the same way as most other behaviour , by operant conditioning : we learn to speak grammatically because we receive reinforcement when we do so . |
| 5 | The fashion for Bonington among French collectors can be explained in part by the wave of anglophilia that swept France under the Restoration . |
| 6 | Seeming contradictions can be explained in situations where conservation policies may be drawn up in some areas ( perhaps financed by foreign aid , and attached to prestigious foreign fellowships and enhanced salaries for senior officials ) — but in a neighbouring area a carte-blanche logging contract is offered to a transnational company . |
| 7 | This can be explained in part by the large numbers of dogs that were imported initially , but it is clear that the breed has really taken off and is now firmly established in the top ten most popular breeds in New Zealand . |
| 8 | This apparent discrepancy can be explained in a number of ways . |
| 9 | This continuity in policy can be explained in a number of ways . |
| 10 | Though many poltergeist influences can be explained in this way , what of those which happen in empty , uninhabited properties ? |
| 11 | Many aspects of adult cat behaviour can be explained in this way , the relics of kittenhood remaining with our pets until they are old and senile . |
| 12 | Other similarities can be explained in different ways . |
| 13 | It has also been found that age effects can be explained in terms of speed of learning of the language , which is much faster the younger the learner . |
| 14 | Something of a myth has developed about the universality of ‘ live ’ variety that can be explained in terms of generalizations based on those great centres London and New York , and by the ubiquitous nature of printed sheet music which often used the name of a star as a selling gimmick and which took songs into many pubs and drinking saloons as well as into many homes . |
| 15 | Resistance to damage can be explained in terms of modular organization but is scarcely conclusive evidence for h . |
| 16 | How much can be explained in individualist terms , and how much in holist ones ? |
| 17 | Multiple energy transformations can also suppress the first , the second and the twin terms in equation ( 6 ) , which can be explained in the same way . |
| 18 | The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) . |
| 19 | A person 's actions can be explained in terms of his following of tacit conventions , but our knowledge of the rules will not allow us to predict what he will do at any given time . |
| 20 | But the functionalist starting-point is still the idea that people are socialised strongly into conformity and that social phenomena can be explained in terms of the functions they perform . |
| 21 | Rather than the result of differential access to productive property per se , the inequality between these two broad occupational strata can be explained in terms of Weber 's emphasis on their different market capacities . |
| 22 | So we have an operatic phenomenon that can be explained in good , old-fashioned aesthetic terms . |
| 23 | The growing hostility between Richard and the Stanleys after 1484 can be explained in terms of the king 's policies , but it may also have owed something to the frictions of the previous fifteen years . |
| 24 | The speaker views the phenomenon as an event or state which can be explained in terms of another , temporally prior , event or state . |
| 25 | The speaker is viewing the phenomenon as an action John throwing the ball ) which can be explained in terms of the agent 's intention to achieve a particular result ( the window breaking ) . |
| 26 | The massive forgetting of dreams can be explained in terms of the strait-jacket of a single thought-stream preventing the formation of any such intention , or dream events from being brought into perspective or made sense of . |
| 27 | The paradox can be explained in two ways . |
| 28 | This continuity can be explained in large part by the nature of the superstructure . |
| 29 | The positivists ' emphasis on observable ‘ facts ’ is due largely to the belief that human behaviour can be explained in much the same way as the behaviour of matter . |
| 30 | People react to external stimuli and their behaviour can be explained in terms of this reaction . |