Example sentences of "to explain how [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It goes on to explain how audiovisual media , and video in particular , can be used to help bring about a process of change in people 's lives .
2 Scientists found themselves able to explain how one event causes another in the physical world without supposing objects in that world to have all the qualities we perceive them as having .
3 No one was able to explain how that distinction would work .
4 Most important , he will have to explain how far sympathy action should be allowed and precisely what would constitute a lawful trade dispute .
5 His theory did not attempt to explain how long waves are generated at the international level or the mechanisms by which national economies ' cyclical movements are linked .
6 Freud 's theory is attempting to explain how religious rituals and beliefs started in human cultures in the first instance .
7 However it is unlikely that a set of rules to explain how general language is processed will be available in the foreseeable future .
8 In this section we intend to explain how such policies involve the relationship between objectives , targets , and instruments .
9 Templeton went on to explain how employing women played havoc with this arrangement : When the females get their work to set up , the whole of what we term the " fat " is taken out , that is all the space is taken out and they simply get close matter to set , and they get paid for that .
10 Their idea of reality remains trapped in the cultural viewpoint which their theory of literature was trying to replace , and the difficulties which this led to can be most clearly seen in their theory of literary history : despite their innovatory definition of literary history as a discontinuous series , they were unable to explain how literary history related to other historical series .
11 Others extended the land all the way across the Atlantic to explain how some species came to be resident in both North America and Europe , openly appealing to the legend of Atlantis to support this hypothesis , despite the fact that the land-bridge would have been submerged long before the human race appeared .
12 ‘ I can see I do n't need to explain how this parcel of land is only a few hundred yards from the newly designated railway lines .
13 One of the challenges of psychobiology is to explain how this integration is achieved ( Gazzaniga 1985 ) .
14 One of the main concerns of functionalist theory is to explain how social life is possible .
15 On the basis of these findings a model can be suggested to explain how noxious stimulation can lead to induction of c -fos and give rise to the neurophysiological and behavioural changes seen in pain states .
16 STOCKHOLM ( AP ) — The US cancer researchers Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus won the Nobel Prize for medicine yesterday , for helping to explain how malignant tumours begin .
17 To achieve this they need to be able first to specify the functions of individual components of the nervous system and related mechanisms in the body that have behavioural significance , such as the digestive system , and second to explain how these components , working together in an integrated system , give rise to human behaviour and human consciousness .
18 Some experts maintain that these molluscs were able to swim in the open ocean , or that they were attached to floating seaweed : some such mechanism has to be invoked to explain how these bivalves came into an environment that lacked bottom-living animals .
19 In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success .
20 If the mental lexicon does consist of a number of separate subsystems , then we need to explain how these sub-systems can communicate with each other , since such communication is obviously essential .
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