Example sentences of "can [adv] be explain [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ determined hostility of the Socialist Party generally and of the Trade Union movement in particular ’ which Leo Amery later described as a ‘ curious feature ’ ( Amery , 1955 , p. 206 ) of the movement for family allowances can perhaps be explained by two factors . |
| 2 | ‘ The distribution of the lividity can only be explained in that way . |
| 3 | Thus it is often argued that statutes punishing cruelty to animals can only be explained in that way . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , when all factors have been assessed , there still remain effects which can not be explained in orthodox terms . |
| 8 | In practice , however , from about 5 o'clock in the morning onwards changes occur that can not be explained in this way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Editor , — Unfortunately , the emerging epidemic of cardiovascular disease in developing countries can not be explained by selective quotation or wishful thinking . |
| 13 | Gumperz warns " whatever patterning there is in this type of code switching can not be explained by generalized rules relating conversational functions to instances of code use " ( 1982 : 83 ) . |
| 14 | It can not be explained by conventional theory , including the mechanisms presented here and that of Runcorn , unless N R ( R N ) paths along the E rim are accompanied by R N ( N R ) paths around the antipodal path . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Numerous analyses leave no doubt that the scale of these changes can not be explained by any combination of relative adjustments within the context of post-war international economic recovery , the emergence of new industrial nations , the vigorous operation of comparative advantage within a high growth of trade , or by the substantial increase in semi-manufactures [ Panic , 1975 ] . |
| 17 | The enhanced changes observed in this study in posterior wall biopsy specimens compared with those from the anterior wall can not be explained by any clinical factor . |
| 18 | This reading can not be explained by contextual modulation , so it must be the result of selection from a set of discrete possibilities . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The attractions of Dworkin 's thesis can possibly be explained by this need for a new unitary formulation of legal theory — the irony , of course , is that Dworkin shares with other approaches this simplified view of today 's society . |
| 21 | It can only establish a correlation between two behaviour patterns ; but a correlation can always be explained by both activities being caused by a third , unobserved activity . |
| 22 | Mystics are aware that their experience can never be explained in rational terms and insist that it is unhelpful and can even be dangerous to attempt to define the ultimate reality in terms of reason and logic . |