Example sentences of "can be explained [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mathematics can be explained through the written word ‘ We went to the main road at 10.00 am to begin our traffic count . |
| 2 | Of the genuinely difficult cases , those in which the jurist appears to use unclear language , most can be explained on the linguistic argument . |
| 3 | The three properties can be explained on the assumption that a synapse will be potentiated if , and only if , it is active at a time when the region of dendrite on which it terminates is sufficiently depolarized . |
| 4 | This apparent third party relationship can be explained on the basis of the continued existence of the Mandate as an international status , on estoppel , and on the need to protect the rights of the inhabitants . |
| 5 | Although there is no overall meaning , everything can be explained on one measure or another . |
| 6 | Now , the , there , it appears that there 's a whole variety of phenomena er which suggests that sentence divides up in this way and that can be explained on hypothesis we just call such a division a constituent , and then we stipulate that , as certain operations can only apply to constituents . |
| 7 | But there is another possible kind of explanation , often more powerful , in which some linguistic feature is motivated by principles outside the scope of linguistic theory : for example , it seems possible that the syntactic processes known as island constraints ( Ross , 1967 ) can be explained on the grounds of general psychological principles ( see e.g. Grosu , 1972 ) . |
| 8 | McCutcheon can be explained on the basis that the terms of previous contracts had not been consistent . |
| 9 | It would make no sense to say that the dots in the picture had a Gestalt of themselves , but to apply this model to the brain and experience would be just like that ; for , if the experience just is a state of the brain , then there is no way in which the character of the experience can be explained as the result of some perspective on the brain . |
| 10 | Within such a context it is easier to see how a series of advances , retreats and confusing divisions can be explained as part of a general shift which is of wider significance than the accumulation of a mass of detailed incidents , each of which can only be fully explained in terms of its own unique genesis . |
| 11 | This ‘ withdrawal ’ — which can be explained as a collective , dignified attempt not to have any truck with the enterprise except on one 's own terms — which an outsider can describe as apathy or schizoid withdrawal — has far-reaching political consequences . |
| 12 | It appears that some at least of the variation in the cyanogenesis polymorphism over the field can be explained as local micro-evolution in response to locally patchy selection . |
| 13 | Marx is deeply opposed to the idea that a theory has a ‘ starting-point ’ , and in particular to the claim that social phenomena can be explained as the result of universal properties of individuals , and Althusser sums up his scepticism with an epigrammatic flourish : the classical idea that man makes his own history must be countered with the question ‘ How is the man who makes history made ? ’ |
| 14 | I would suggest that this attention to differences between context-dependent and objective description can be explained as a product of the specific academic tradition to which these writers are the heirs . |
| 15 | The assumption in this mode of analysis is , says Posner , that man 's actions can be explained as if he were : |
| 16 | Sometimes decline can be explained as an inevitable concomitant of development ; thus the heyday of Valencian prosperity was matched by a dramatic decline in the silk industry of Granada and the smaller industry of the Aragonese valleys may have suffered from Catalan competition . |
| 17 | By this Marxists mean that change and power in all human society can be explained as the result of the struggle between contending classes . |
| 18 | As a result , difficulties in the education service can be explained as the consequence of incidents of which they are probably the cause . |
| 19 | Functional studies were essentially positivist in nature and depended upon the notion that phenomena can be explained as instances of repeated and predictable regularities in which form and function can be assumed to be related , and indeed form and process figured in the titles of a number of books concerned with processes ( e.g. Carson and Kirkby , 1972 ; Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) . |
| 20 | Thus the overshadowing effect can be explained without recourse to the mechanisms usually supposed to be responsible for it in associative learning ( but see Pearce 1987 ) . |
| 21 | Many of these comparisons produce results that can be explained without appealing to the idea that the pre-trained cues become more distinctive . |
| 22 | You can also make an appointment with the librarian or one of his staff so that the classification system can be explained to you together with any skills involved in scanning the microfiche for details of authors , articles and sources . |
| 23 | The full details of the scheme and eligibility can be explained to you by your Manager or Personnel Department . |
| 24 | To move quickly into the management of new policies in a school carries the advantage that an innovation can be explained to others , defended or modified by the decision only of the initiator himself . |
| 25 | The reasons for a separation and its temporary nature can be explained to a ten-year-old child , so that anxiety can again be minimised . |
| 26 | Whatever the unit , its activities can be explained from without or understood from within . |
| 27 | Suffice to say that I do not believe that human activity can be explained from or reduced to the ecological level . |
| 28 | Trevor Sorbie thinks the patronising attitudes of some salons can be explained by the youth of the stylists . |
| 29 | It can be explained by the fact that so much of Western life in the later part of the twentieth century is geared to groups and families , partnerships and couples . |
| 30 | The Libyan system was ostensibly designed to preserve those natural attributes of humankind : some of its elements can be explained by the intention to create a non-representative direct democracy . |