Example sentences of "[verb] can be explained [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The type of transaction to which each is most suited can be explained after describing their characteristics .
3 Current economic thinking , and policy , is dominated by the idea that most of the unemployment we observe can be explained by labour , market ‘ imperfections ’ such as trade unions , minimum wage legislation uncertainty and lack of labour mobility .
4 Resistance to damage can be explained in terms of modular organization but is scarcely conclusive evidence for h .
5 In part , this tendency towards cohabiting can be explained by the fact that the known users were randomly sampled , whereas the hidden sector was sampled through nomination and interviewees ' partners formed a prominent part of the sampling frame .
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