Example sentences of "can [not/n't] be explained [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It can not be explained on the grounds that ordinary life is just as tragic ( art is not merely imitation of life ) or by reference to moral feelings or pity and fear . |
| 4 | In the former slave economies this can not be explained on political grounds , since the South was conquered and the old plantation aristocracy was at least temporarily powerless , though it soon returned . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In practice , however , from about 5 o'clock in the morning onwards changes occur that can not be explained in this way . |
| 7 | The great and life-long affection many have for the books of Enid Blyton can not be explained in ‘ pure ’ literary terms . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , when all factors have been assessed , there still remain effects which can not be explained in orthodox terms . |
| 9 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 10 | Many non-neutral uses of gender-neutral words ( like citizen ) can not be explained in terms of speakers ' commonsense assumptions that men do certain things and women other things . |
| 11 | Although individualists allow that certain types of individual property may be explained by appealing to the properties of groups , they are committed to the view that other individual properties can not be explained in this fashion . |
| 12 | But if voluntarism is to be avoided , the tactics followed by classes , their members or representatives can not be explained in terms of the qualities of either individuals or groups . |
| 13 | By the same token , collective beliefs and behaviour can not be explained in terms of individual psychology . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the scale of recruitment to the revolutionary underground suggests that it can not be explained in terms of individual maladjustment . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We saw earlier on that the idea of numerical identity can not be explained in terms of the criteria of re-identification of particulars . |
| 19 | Similarly the idea of numerical diversity can not be explained in terms of the criteria of numerical differentiation of such particulars . |
| 20 | Both sides are agreed that experiences can not be explained in terms of physical attributes of physical bodies . |
| 21 | However , there are marked variations in biomass of Colohus spp. in Africa and Presbytis spp. in Asia in different forests and these can not be explained in terms of the overall degree of herbivory of an individual species or its body size , both of which are known to be correlated with biomass in primates as a whole . |
| 22 | In a similar case of a montane forest , between 56 tree species in several families , this time in Jamaica , there was , again , only slight interspecific temporal separation in the use of animal pollinators and dispersal agents , thus ‘ niche ’ separation in this sense is slight and the coexistence of the 56 species can not be explained in this way . |
| 23 | Perhaps the 1980s can not be explained from such a near vantage point as the present , but , in any case , the underlying forces of the time are ( perhaps fittingly ) lost in Mr Foster 's litany of acquisition . |
| 24 | This is the position known as materialism ; it is opposed to idealism which , in a broad sense , sees the basis of human existence as abstract spiritual concepts whose origin can not be explained by natural circumstances . |
| 25 | Whatever went wrong in the years of Mary 's personal rule , therefore , simply can not be explained by inherited weakness ; her problems have nothing to do with insecure monarchy and overmighty subjects . |
| 26 | Their slow learning can not be explained by assuming that the pre-exposed tone tended to evoke a response that interfered with lever pressing . |
| 27 | Unlike material from the Earth and other meteorites , carbonaceous chondrites have oxygen-isotope abundances which can not be explained by purely mass-related effects . |
| 28 | This difference can not be explained by a higher level of prosecutions for regulatory offences . |
| 29 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 30 | This argument against a crude materialist interpretation of Marx is presented as an application of the claim that social phenomena can not be explained by appealing to a ‘ given ’ concept . |