Example sentences of "can be explained [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Much of this can be explained by the cooptation which has taken place through the mechanism of clientelism . |
| 32 | Some of the wilder fluctuations can be explained by changing patterns of party contestation . |
| 33 | For social reasons , both the degree of concentration of certain acknowledged problems and the extent to which they can be explained by internal processes of self-generation rather externally imposed processes may be grossly exaggerated . |
| 34 | The force with which the judges made their case for Second Empire can be explained by assuming that they felt that if they did not strongly press for this form of building , another , and less welcome style in their eyes , would be adopted . |
| 35 | According to Wolman , of the 15 per cent difference in employment performance between good and poor urban economies , three-quarters can be explained by contrasting experiences in manufacturing . |
| 36 | This anomaly can be explained by a strong but short telemagmatic heating event , with coalification having preceded porosity loss of the reservoir rocks , and/or by fracture porosity gained through tectonic disturbance of the rocks . |
| 37 | This can be explained by the recent deep subsidence in Cainozoic times . |
| 38 | This exception can be explained by a strong , but short heating event , by which the coalification process preceded the loss of porosity in the reservoir rocks . |
| 39 | Secondly , although the integral values of the Hall resistivity at the plateaux can be explained by a simple theory that glosses over many of the complications of real inversion layers , nobody expects such outstandingly good agreement , better than 1 part per million , with a theory so coarse . |
| 40 | There is a similar wide variety in the scale of teaching and learning equipment provided , which can be explained by a number of factors : the financial provision made to schools by central or local authorities , the type and efficiency of supply and distribution mechanism ( bureaucratic centralised distribution systems seem universally inefficient ) , differences in attitudes and capabilities of communities to help in the provision of services or equipment to schools or individual children , the initiative and morale of teachers , the richness or poverty of the school environment . |
| 41 | How feminism and sexual radicalism became increasingly a minority current in a labour movement dominated by economism , can be explained by examining the effect of the inter-relationship between patriarchy and British imperialism on the working class , but can not be fully detailed here . |
| 42 | The convoluted language to argue in favour of national control in the Tory manifesto can be explained by anxiety not to use the technical , but too foreign-sounding , EC term ‘ subsidiarity ’ . |
| 43 | The food is delicious : home-baked bread , cakes and pastries , the excellence of which can be explained by the fact that John and Polly were both bakers in John 's father 's business . |
| 44 | The positive side of the local sign theory is an expression of the faith that such abilities can be explained by reference to processes ( of inference from observed correlations , and so on ) which are themselves conscious . |
| 45 | At least some of these can be explained by language or code interference between English and sign language ( e.g. difficulties with the passive voice — BSL has no passive ) . |
| 46 | Thus , the achievements of white working class pupils — children whose parents are manual workers — are much closer to those of Afro-Caribbean pupils , and it is arguable that the findings of Rampton , Swann and similar investigations can be explained by the fact that a larger proportion of Afro-Caribbeans than whites are working class , and are likely to be earning less and living in worse housing than whites , as documented earlier in this chapter ( Brown , 1984 ; Reeves and Chevannes , 1981 ) . |
| 47 | The idea that the educational achievements of black students can be explained by genetically inherited lower intellectual ability relative to whites , as measured by IQ tests , has been even more vigorously challenged , with Kamin providing one of the most effective critiques ( Kamin , 1977 ) . |
| 48 | It can be explained by citing earlier physical differences ; perhaps Jones jogged while Smith smoked . |
| 49 | In a few cases , the continued support for a political party can be explained by reference to an historical connection . |
| 50 | Some of the similarities between the East Asian and the pre-Columbian American civilisations can be explained by the fact that people may have moved across the bridge of land which connected north-east Asia to north-west America 15,000 or more years ago . |
| 51 | This can be explained by the decrease in the solar flux ( caused by SO 2 absorption ) which reduces the rate of O 2 photolysis and hence of O 3 production . |
| 52 | The contradictions between these implicit tendencies and Goody 's explicit rejection of them can be explained by the framework of distinctions on which the inquiry is based in the first place . |
| 53 | With few exceptions , the proxy records of the two climate shifts can be explained by changes in seasonality ascribed to this mechanism . |
| 54 | Such questions as these receive quite disparate answers , ranging from claims that all these legal practices can be explained by a new principle , such as the protection of reliance , through to denials that anything significant has happened . |
| 55 | This huge deficit can be explained by reference to the growth of demand within the USA which has drawn an increasing volume of imports . |
| 56 | In part , this tendency towards cohabiting can be explained by the fact that the known users were randomly sampled , whereas the hidden sector was sampled through nomination and interviewees ' partners formed a prominent part of the sampling frame . |
| 57 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 58 | Some of these differences can be explained by the historical fact that ‘ public sector ’ institutions incorporated previously distinct colleges of teacher education , technology and commerce . |
| 59 | The problem with all these formulations is that they are reductionist : that is , they claim that complex and multi-faceted phenomena can be explained by a single , simple cause . |
| 60 | The trend towards greater leniency for most offenders can be explained by the operation of the first part of Durkheim 's first law , which postulates increasing leniency as collective sentiments become more secular . |