Example sentences of "which [vb mod] not [be] explained " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another admirer , a woman who went into the mission field , recalled that ‘ the silence of a great congregation , held by the power of an eloquence which we felt rather than understood , endued him with an ‘ other-worldliness ’ which could not be explained ’ . |
| 2 | In 66 cases there was a statistically significant effect which could not be explained by any other means . |
| 3 | The Manchus had been full citizens with diplomatic privileges for more than thirty years now , but there still existed between them and other humans a coldness which could not be explained simply by xenophobia . |
| 4 | Conversely there were occasions when world oil production reached levels which could not be explained by known consumption forecasts , as IEA member governments established or topped up strategic stocks against the uncertainties of life , like the US government 's vast Strategic Petroleum Reserve ( SPR ) . |
| 5 | Unlike material from the Earth and other meteorites , carbonaceous chondrites have oxygen-isotope abundances which can not be explained by purely mass-related effects . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , when all factors have been assessed , there still remain effects which can not be explained in orthodox terms . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | There are large variations in the inter- and intra-national rates for this operation , which can not be explained adequately by differences in morbidity , and there is at present little professional consensus on the appropriate indications for hysterectomy . |
| 11 | This suggests that a fusion of languages is taking place which can not be explained simply by an appeal to the notion that speakers from time to time animate different personas , some " British " and some " Caribbean " . |