Example sentences of "explain as the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the materialist Richards meaning was to be explained as the use of words either to point to things or to evoke feelings — in terms of behaviour , in the last analysis . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These amount , as we saw , to the belief that many social phenomena are to be explained as the outcome of actions performed by individuals or groups , and the view that groups can only do things if individuals do . |
| 4 | Many of the American neo-Lamarckians argued that evolution exhibited both adaptive and non-adaptive trends , the latter being explained as the unfolding of trends built into the very constitution of each group at its origin . |
| 5 | As a result , difficulties in the education service can be explained as the consequence of incidents of which they are probably the cause . |
| 6 | In a paper written in 1905 , a few weeks before the famous paper on special relativity , Einstein pointed out that what was called Brownian motion — the irregular , random motion of small particles of dust suspended in a liquid — could be explained as the effect of atoms of the liquid colliding with the dust particles . |