Example sentences of "[is] [prep] be explained [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the nineteenth century , the Newtonian paradigm was governed by an assumption something like , ‘ The whole of the physical world is to be explained as a mechanical system operating under the influence of various forces according to the dictates of Newton 's laws of motion ’ , and the Cartesian programme in the seventeenth century involved the principle , ‘ There is no void and the physical universe is a big clockwork in which all forces take the form of a push ’ . |
| 2 | This is because the behaviour which is to be explained as the result of an instinct being present in an organism is , itself , the main evidence for the existence of the instinct in the first place . |
| 3 | For those who view in a broadly positive light the reforming thrust of the 1931–3 governments , the fate of the Republic is to be explained by the underlying polarization within Spanish society , the inevitable conflicts which democracy therefore released , the obduracy of the conservative and the privileged , and the unwillingness of the main party of the right , the CEDA , to accept the Republic and the readjustment of wealth necessary to make democracy work . |
| 4 | The difference is to be explained by the historical origins of the various sections . |
| 5 | And since we are familiar with Poulantzas ' rejection of voluntarism , we shall assume that this in turn is to be explained in a way that avoids treating either individuals or classes as subjects . |