Example sentences of "to explain how [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darwin 's rejection of geographical isolation encouraged his opponents to postulate sudden transformations or saltations to explain how distinct new species were formed . |
| 2 | No one has been able to explain how this erroneous information appeared in that paper . |
| 3 | Better informed political opinion can seek to explain how this particular proposal squared with her underlying beliefs . |
| 4 | But if this is indeed the case , it becomes difficult to explain how significant individuating references can be made to anything that is subject to change ; or indeed to make clear sense of any spatiotemporal order concepts . |
| 5 | He used it to explain how different chemical compounds may contain the same elements in the same proportions — ‘ isomerism ’ — because their atoms are differently arranged , and how different substances may have the same crystalline form — ‘ isomorphism ’ — because they have the same number of atoms in the same arrangement . |