Example sentences of "can [adv] be explain " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems which these and other patients suffer can mostly be explained in terms of detailed functional models of face processing such as that proposed by Bruce and Young ( 1986 ) , in the same way that patients ' different reading problems could be explained by Coltheart ( 1985 ) . |
| 2 | The judges ' deliberate promotion of the Second Empire can perhaps be explained from the standpoint of patronage . |
| 3 | The fact that different dowsers can get very different results on the same site can perhaps be explained as the interaction between their own energy field and the field of the site , so that the dowsing patterns found can only have true meaning by looking at the dowser as well . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This case can perhaps be explained on policy grounds as the plaintiff was a rescuer and the courts do not wish to deter rescue . |
| 6 | Though consent , if valid , has normative consequences , and can only be explained through its purported normative consequences , it does not bear its normativeness on its face . |
| 7 | ‘ The distribution of the lividity can only be explained in that way . |
| 8 | Finally , perhaps this change of mood can only be explained in the wider context of gradual changes in government policy on the inner city and UDCs — the emergence of a ‘ new realism ’ tempering the policies and rhetoric of the radical right . |
| 9 | The repeated blindnesses of critics can only be explained by a deep dissatisfaction in them with the very data of ‘ fairy-story ’ , an inhibition against accepting the conventions of romance . |
| 10 | Is a complex idea which can only be explained to parents with great difficulty . |
| 11 | As fearful , angry , brave , quarrelsome , competitive , kind , generous , cooperative etc. do not exist in the world as measurable qualities , but humans as social beings may develop all , or none , to varying extents , so social behaviour like war can only be explained with reference to complex social factors , not to some assumed universal inner state . |
| 12 | Thus it is often argued that statutes punishing cruelty to animals can only be explained in that way . |
| 13 | Rather , it can only be explained in terms of a massive decline in the quality of conditioning of children : ‘ We live in an era of permissiveness and thus have largely abandoned all attempts to inculcate standards , values and ‘ conscience ’ into our children ’ ( ibid. , p. 209 ) . |
| 14 | But their actions can only be explained by the infinitely complex interaction between general causes — economic , social , cultural and ideological — and their individual personalities , moulded by a particular experience of childhood and maturity . |
| 15 | The power of some pressure groups can only be explained in terms of what may be called an ‘ insider ’ status within the policy-making system . |
| 16 | They are to be contrasted with empty words , that is structural words , — those that belong to closed systems and can only be explained in terms of their uses in sentences . |
| 17 | The conclusion to be derived from the above is that the overdevelopment of the bureaucracy in the post-colonial state can only be explained by reference to factors which render other political institutions impotent . |
| 18 | However , there is little doubt that this phenomenon is a most important one in our species and it can only be explained by assuming that , with the beginnings of hunting , neotenous changes suddenly became adaptive . |
| 19 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 20 | The extinction of left ear responses in the dichotic listening performance of split-brain subjects can thus be explained by the fact that material in the right hemisphere can not reach the speaking left hemisphere unless the anterior two thirds of the callosum ( Springer and Gazzaniga , 1975 ; Hécaen , Gosnave , Vedrenne and Szikla , 1978 ) and/or , in some patients , the anterior commissure , ( Risse , Le Doux , Springer , Wilson and Gazzaniga , 1978 ) is intact . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In practice , however , from about 5 o'clock in the morning onwards changes occur that can not be explained in this way . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Their slow learning can not be explained by assuming that the pre-exposed tone tended to evoke a response that interfered with lever pressing . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | It is well known that Homoeopathic remedies are very dilute in their preparation though their effects can not be explained so simply . |
| 28 | Unlike material from the Earth and other meteorites , carbonaceous chondrites have oxygen-isotope abundances which can not be explained by purely mass-related effects . |
| 29 | Nothing an animal ever does can not be explained , given sufficient patience and ingenuity on the part of the animal-watcher . |
| 30 | The great and life-long affection many have for the books of Enid Blyton can not be explained in ‘ pure ’ literary terms . |