Example sentences of "explanation [prep] [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information books ( written in a range of styles from the jolly to the earnest ) provide explanations of how the body works , how it should be maintained , and how it may be developed . |
| 2 | It is all to do with the most effective means to ends , at least some of which must be given ( and thus are perhaps open to structural explanations of how the agent came to have them ) . |
| 3 | They sought alternative explanations of how the process might work , which allowed them to believe that Nature was driven by something higher than mere selfishness . |
| 4 | Paul 's position , in short , provides Simon Peter with a viable explanation for why the world has not yet ended , why it may not for another thousand or two thousand years , while at the same time still justifying one 's allegiance . |
| 5 | The orbital motion of the earth provided a causal explanation for why the planets appeared to meander across the sky . |
| 6 | Up to now , there has been no good explanation for why the observed value should by so small . |
| 7 | The preferential replication of genes by means of natural selection may well be a necessary condition for evolution to take place , but it is hardly a sufficient explanation for how the enormous diversity of life in space and time has come about . |
| 8 | European political leaders need to give a clear explanation of where the Community stands — a requirement which the MacSharry proposals simply do not meet . |
| 9 | If they had , they would have had to provide an alternative explanation of where the surface energy of a newly broken surface came from , but somehow nobody took it very seriously . |
| 10 | Cuvier did not adopt the most obvious non-evolutionary explanation of where the new species came from . |
| 11 | The ‘ cure ’ is largely a matter of acclimatisation and a simple but thorough explanation of why the aircraft stalls and what causes the sensation . |
| 12 | Wesley has an explanation of why the believer can not explain to the unbeliever what he or she has learned by faith . |
| 13 | There is hardly any need to begin a book on new technology with an explanation of why the topic is of such significance . |
| 14 | Here we have a possible explanation of why the Cro-Magnons might have exterminated the Neanderthals : the Neanderthals were very like them , and therefore constituted a threat . |
| 15 | He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous . |
| 16 | If this is the case proceed as detailed below otherwise return the form with a suitable explanation of why the form is not being accepted . |
| 17 | The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory . |
| 18 | The strong smell of damp and cats gave a quick explanation of why the first two floors of the building were uninhabited . |
| 19 | Halloran 's and his co-workers ' explanation of why the media coverage took this form emphasises the importance of news values . |
| 20 | Luckily , grand unified theories may provide an explanation of why the universe should now contain more quarks than antiquarks , even if it started out with equal numbers of each . |
| 21 | The universe would then go on to expand and cool just like the hot big bang model , but there would now be an explanation of why the universe was expanding at exactly the critical rate and why different regions had the same temperature . |
| 22 | Later , when I visited the vice-chairman of the PCC , who is also the vicar 's warden , he could give me no explanation of why the candle was there . |
| 23 | As Mittwoch ( 1990 : 125 ) points out , however , the fact that historically make vacillated for a long time between to and zero ( cf. the biblical He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ) calls for a deeper explanation of why the bare infinitive won out . |
| 24 | Erm I think , yeah , o over elaborate erm explanation of why the C C Q , that went on a bit long . |
| 25 | The second sense emerges as we follow his explanation of how the civil state would come into being out of a state of nature , by the making of contracts . |
| 26 | For their part , the problem faced by the proponents of epigenesis was that no one could provide a reasonable explanation of how the embryo was formed . |
| 27 | Convincing them otherwise would take double-blind trials and a plausible explanation of how the sensitivity might arise . |
| 28 | There are other elements in Campbell 's thought : he seems to think that the most perspicuous model of the mind to employ in understanding human knowledge sees the mind as embodying a structured hierarchy of functionally characterized capacities , each of which works in a way analogous to natural selection ; and he defends his view as part of a ( reductive ) explanation of how the capacities comprising human rationality have evolved . |
| 29 | As a history and an explanation of how the cold war ended , Mr Shultz 's memoirs are unmatched . |
| 30 | It is one thing to say that the understanding of how people order their experience is in contrast to the explanation of how the world works . |