Example sentences of "[vb mod] not be explain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , the Iranian operation could not be explained because , in its respectable long-term aims , it was complicated ; and most people would doubtless insist , as they did , that it was just a piece of barter . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | He asks if the redshift of distant galaxies could not be explained by a universal contraction towards a point which is , as yet , beyond our observational limits . |
| 4 | ‘ Drive ’ was also called upon to explain variations in behaviour that could not be explained in terms of learning ; but what is drive ? |
| 5 | In 66 cases there was a statistically significant effect which could not be explained by any other means . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These results could not be explained by expectations about the effects of influenza or by changes in mood , and they confirm findings at the Medical Research Council Common Cold Unit with experimentally induced illnesses . |
| 8 | This difference could not be explained by the distribution of either histological types or admission types between the erm sites that had less than one hundred cases and those that had more than one hundred cases . |
| 9 | The existence of distinct geographical provinces thus could not be explained in terms of climate . |
| 10 | Whatever the overall trend , the steps from one class to the next were so abrupt that they could not be explained by gradual transmutation . |
| 11 | The earliest accounts of transmutation fell into this trap , projecting the process as the gradual unfolding of trends that could not be explained in terms of a response to the environment . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The heterogeneity , especially of the urokinase type of plasminogen activator concentration within the carcinomas , as shown in Figure 2a and 2b , could not be explained by the histologically scored parameters in this study . |
| 14 | The differences in gastrin could not be explained by differences in acid secretion or severity of renal failure and they postulated an unknown mechanism causing enhanced synthesis of gastrin . |
| 15 | This could not be explained , other than to say that the two things caused the passage to " jar " . |
| 16 | The 5 km offset of the centre of figure from the centre of mass need not be explained by a change in crust thickness from 50 km on the near side to 75 km on the far side , but by an asymmetry spread over a greater depth and consequently slight on a global scale . |
| 17 | Robert knew their presence would not be explained . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In practice , however , from about 5 o'clock in the morning onwards changes occur that can not be explained in this way . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But heightened sensitivity on this point can not be explained entirely in terms of the need to tighten ‘ social control ’ at a time of rapid economic change . |
| 22 | Their slow learning can not be explained by assuming that the pre-exposed tone tended to evoke a response that interfered with lever pressing . |
| 23 | Corrigan points out that the delinquency of these boys can not be explained or understood outside the context of their leisure activities ( or lack of them ) . |
| 24 | It is well known that Homoeopathic remedies are very dilute in their preparation though their effects can not be explained so simply . |
| 25 | Unlike material from the Earth and other meteorites , carbonaceous chondrites have oxygen-isotope abundances which can not be explained by purely mass-related effects . |
| 26 | Nothing an animal ever does can not be explained , given sufficient patience and ingenuity on the part of the animal-watcher . |
| 27 | The great and life-long affection many have for the books of Enid Blyton can not be explained in ‘ pure ’ literary terms . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , when all factors have been assessed , there still remain effects which can not be explained in orthodox terms . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This difference can not be explained by a higher level of prosecutions for regulatory offences . |