Example sentences of "can not be explained " in BNC.
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| 31 | Editor , — Unfortunately , the emerging epidemic of cardiovascular disease in developing countries can not be explained by selective quotation or wishful thinking . |
| 32 | For Freud , antisemitism can not be explained fully in terms of the Jews being a minority group who are disliked by the host society because they are different . |
| 33 | The international environment therefore can not be explained by looking at states alone . |
| 34 | From this point of view , societal characteristics can not be explained as the product of actors ' choices , since these choices are themselves the product of socialisation . |
| 35 | Pre-transitional European fertility can not be explained by the utility of children to their parents . |
| 36 | But all of these developments can not be explained solely by reference to what goes on inside ‘ Fleet Street ’ . |
| 37 | They tended to locate component supplies in lower-income countries to create two-way trade with Japan ; they did not replace the trade in finished products ( Kojima , 1978 ) .6 The Japanese moves can not be explained in the defensive product-cycle terms ; they were offensive in the sense that they were designed to establish positions that permitted new world-scale advantages to be created by subsequent expansion . |
| 38 | There are certain classes of English word combinations that can not be explained using existing syntactic or semantic theories . |
| 39 | There are certain classes of English word combinations that can not be explained using existing syntactic or semantic theories . |
| 40 | But whereas such poems are rare in earlier periods , in twelfth-century Europe they multiply so explosively that the phenomenon can not be explained merely as the reflection of a greater number of extant manuscripts . |
| 41 | I do not mean , of course , that it was something that can not be explained yet , but rather that it was something of which no explanation can conceivably be found . |
| 42 | Conditions had been miserable — and yet , as we climbed aboard the waiting mini-bus , we shared an exhilaration peculiar to bird watchers , and which can not be explained . |
| 43 | It is a quality which is clearly necessary for communication and therefore for foreign language learning , but which can not be explained by concentrating on the internal grammar of sentences . |
| 44 | This reading can not be explained by contextual modulation , so it must be the result of selection from a set of discrete possibilities . |
| 45 | The occurrence of /aI/ in one dialect and /eI/ in the other is a result of the agreement within each community on a consensus norm of usage within that community , and the difference can not be explained without some reference to this fact . |
| 46 | These can not be explained simply in terms of shared descent ( as they were in some multicultural accounts of ethnicity ) or a shared socio-economic location and history ( as they are in some antiracist versions of ‘ the black experience ’ ) . |
| 47 | But the scale of recruitment to the revolutionary underground suggests that it can not be explained in terms of individual maladjustment . |
| 48 | In accounting for the curious distortion of the doctrine that has taken place in England , it is clear that this can not be explained by the mere presence of constitutional arrangements based on a separation of powers or it would be much more prevalent than it is . |
| 49 | A number of such studies have shown that economic growth rates can not be explained completely by changes in capital and labour inputs . |
| 50 | Differences between areas in the rates of induction of labour , epidural anaesthesia , and enemas can not be explained by differences between populations . |
| 51 | If Hume 's argument proves anything , it is just this : that the assumption of identity can not be explained in terms of the conditions under which the empirical things of the common sense world are re-identified ; in particular , it can not be explained in terms of similarities between perceptions and ideas . |
| 52 | If Hume 's argument proves anything , it is just this : that the assumption of identity can not be explained in terms of the conditions under which the empirical things of the common sense world are re-identified ; in particular , it can not be explained in terms of similarities between perceptions and ideas . |
| 53 | We saw earlier on that the idea of numerical identity can not be explained in terms of the criteria of re-identification of particulars . |
| 54 | Similarly the idea of numerical diversity can not be explained in terms of the criteria of numerical differentiation of such particulars . |
| 55 | Both sides are agreed that experiences can not be explained in terms of physical attributes of physical bodies . |
| 56 | The world has always looked to Britain for stability , inventiveness and general mental agility , yet our National Prestige is low , our currency is less than one third of its immediate post-war value against the dollar and can not be explained entirely as a result of market speculation . |
| 57 | But such a phenomenon can not be explained by recourse to general principles of ‘ bureaucratization ’ or administrative expansion . |
| 58 | The success of the Peronist movement and , to a lesser extent , of Vargas and Cárdenas , in gaining widespread acceptance for their visions of national unity can not be explained without reference to a second major element of the Latin American political tradition which is related to corporatism and which also cuts across class-based Marxist politics : caudillismo , and its modern corollary , populism . |
| 59 | Measurements taken by American satellites have pointed to a reduction of approximately 0.35–1.00 per cent per year through the 1980s which can not be explained by variations in the solar cycle ( Bowman , 1988 ) . |
| 60 | There are several things in the Demoiselles that can not be explained completely either by the influence of Cézanne or of tribal art and which point ahead to one of the most important and revolutionary features of Cubist painting : the combination of various views of a subject in a single image . |