Example sentences of "explain [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But explaining is . ’ |
| 2 | Okay now while you 're explaining is it all right if I just use your toilet ? |
| 3 | Another aspect of the data that has not been adequately explained is known as odd-even staggering . |
| 4 | Some indication of the disparities to be explained is contained in Table 2.1 . |
| 5 | It is fundamental to causal explanation that comparisons are made between instances where the thing to be explained is present and instances where it is absent . |
| 6 | The results based on the FCL record are similar , although the variance explained is slightly less ( Table 1 ) . |
| 7 | What needs to be explained is the origin of concentrations of wealth and security or of poverty and deprivation . |
| 8 | To say that effects are events which in a fundamental or standard sense can be explained is to say this : there is a possibility of our finding a proposition which fully answers the question of why they occurred . |
| 9 | The only other chapter to be explained is Chapter 5 " Language and the fictional world " . |
| 10 | Above all , what needs to be explained is how we distinguish between places in a phenomenological space and places in an objective space . |
| 11 | What needs to be explained is , what makes a meaningful use of such phrases possible in regard to ontological existents , and such explanation can not be provided without a detailed analysis of the problem of relations and of the concept of objectivity . |
| 12 | What has to be explained is why in the long-term stagnant economies the innovators do not turn their hands to productive capital accumulation ( or , for that matter , to the mobilisation of political forces , though this would not be Baran 's argument ) . |
| 13 | The way in which this is explained is important . |
| 14 | The most significant feature not explained is a tiny ( 43 arcsec ) component in the precession of the perihelion of the orbit of Mercury ( 532 arcsec per century ) . |
| 15 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 16 | Another feature which has to be explained is the emplacement of massive granite intrusions of various ages which cover about 464 000 km 2 ( about 15 per cent ) of the surface of the range ; this probably represents a volume in excess of 2x106km 3 — the greatest mass of granite intrusions on Earth . |
| 17 | The last thing that a representational theorist really wants to have to explain is the global nature of thinking ; and I suppose we can regard Fodor 's pessimism as an implicit kind of owning up to this . |
| 18 | Perhaps the easiest way to explain is to ask you to imagine what it feels like to be lying tucked up , snug and warm , in your own bed at night and being somewhere in that half-and-half land where you are neither completely asleep nor fully awake . |
| 19 | What is less easy to explain is that all of these words seem to have been created as phonetic imitations of the first meaningful sound uttered by many babies . |
| 20 | More representatively there can be a sneaking hope that to explain is somehow to justify ; and the novels , plays and poems that depict British self-sufficiency and its lapses often smack , like Larkin 's poem ‘ Vers de société ’ , of a sort of rueful mock-modesty : a determination to put a case for oneself as well as to record a mood . |
| 21 | More difficult to explain is how the heat release from the thermohaline circulation ( down wind of North America ) contributed to the North American ice-sheet collapse . |
| 22 | To understand is to reproduce the order in the minds of actors ; to explain is to find causes in the scientific manner . |
| 23 | The picture which Piaget paints of young children 's ability to explain is essentially a negative one . |
| 24 | But what I 'm trying to explain is that at night the hrududil have great lights , brighter than Frith himself . |
| 25 | Even more difficult to explain is the occurrence of banding on the inside of the shell ( Fig. 15 ) . |
| 26 | An important feature to explain is why a hierarchical system is invariably found in organizations such as firms . |
| 27 | What your report fails to explain is the reasons why rents agreed by the lessee for 20-year leases are on average higher than under traditional short-term agreements . |