Example sentences of "be explained by [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Homogenisation — the forces keeping the genes in a family similar to each other — is more subtle ; but the way in which this can occur can now be explained by a variety of molecular mechanisms which ensure , willy-nilly , that one variant copy would replace all other copies . |
| 2 | The company has experienced a number of high level departures in recent years and some argue that part of Saatchi 's problems may be explained by a lack of continuity at senior levels . |
| 3 | This leaves around 1400km of post-collision convergence to be accounted for , much of which might be explained by a doubling of the thickness of the Tibetan crust during the past 50 Ma from a ‘ normal ’ value of 35 km to the present 70 km . |
| 4 | At a time when the party leadership was dominated by the sectarian views of Barbe and Celor , such reticence can not simply be explained by a sense of personal solidarity on the part of Thorez , and especially Vaillant-Couturier , for Barbusse . |
| 5 | The origins of the search business in Britain may be explained by a combination of long-term and short-term factors . |
| 6 | For while they always emphasized the special qualities of literature , and in particular the idea that the meaning or effect of literature can not be explained by a process of reduction to ordinary modes of expression , the New Critics also insisted on its connections with the ‘ real ’ world , and on the contribution it can make to coping with the problems of everyday human existence . |
| 7 | There is a similar wide variety in the scale of teaching and learning equipment provided , which can be explained by a number of factors : the financial provision made to schools by central or local authorities , the type and efficiency of supply and distribution mechanism ( bureaucratic centralised distribution systems seem universally inefficient ) , differences in attitudes and capabilities of communities to help in the provision of services or equipment to schools or individual children , the initiative and morale of teachers , the richness or poverty of the school environment . |
| 8 | The reason for this is not clear but it could be explained by the finding of a lower prevalence of H pylori in NSAID patients , and by the tendency of NSAID related damage to be maximal in the gastric antrum . |
| 9 | The trend towards greater leniency for most offenders can be explained by the operation of the first part of Durkheim 's first law , which postulates increasing leniency as collective sentiments become more secular . |
| 10 | This understanding of the role of education can partly be explained by the experience of the literacy campaign which was carried out throughout Nicaragua shortly after the revolution . |
| 11 | Pre-transitional European fertility can not be explained by the utility of children to their parents . |
| 12 | The reduced responsiveness of gall bladder muscle to CCK by such an exogenous source of NO can probably be explained by the accumulation of cGMP in the gall bladder smooth muscle induced by NO . |
| 13 | On the basis of the much more complete seismic data available by the late 196()s it was being suggested that the inclined zone of seismicity ( the Wadati-Benioff zone ) associated with island arcs and active continental margin mountain belts could be explained by the existence of a slab of lithosphere plunging down into the mantle . |
| 14 | Initially , in the early 1960s , these were concerned to test the social-psychological assumption that young people 's entry into work could be explained by the idea of ‘ occupational choice ’ . |
| 15 | The character on stage , for reasons which may possibly be explained by the insertion of a line or two into the script , wears a deaf-aid … ’ |
| 16 | The lower specificity of Pyloriset Latex , Helico-G , and Biolab Malakit tests in NSAID patients could be explained by the presence of chemical gastritis and the low prevalence of H pylori in these patients , as found by this study and by thers . |
| 17 | The results that we obtained were similar to the results in their duodenal ulcer group so that the results of Blair et al can not be explained by the presence of H pylori . |
| 18 | An increased absorption of PEGs in active ulcerative colitis could be explained by the presence of inflammation resulting in the loss of mucosal integrity . |
| 19 | The contradictions between these implicit tendencies and Goody 's explicit rejection of them can be explained by the framework of distinctions on which the inquiry is based in the first place . |
| 20 | The extremely high intragastric ammonium concentration in the renal failure patients with H pylori infection can be explained by the combination of their high gastric juice urea concentration and the high urease activity of the organism . |
| 21 | Moreover , the lunar seismic signals were of a very different nature from those seen in the Earth , and this can be explained by the prevalence of a fragmented medium in the outer regions of the Moon . |
| 22 | Depths less than this can be explained by the infilling of lagoons and the deposition of some material on banks . |
| 23 | As our knowledge of both ancient and modern mountain belts has developed , it has become increasingly evident that not all the complexities observed can simply be explained by the collision of large continental blocks . |
| 24 | Trevor Sorbie thinks the patronising attitudes of some salons can be explained by the youth of the stylists . |
| 25 | In our study bone densities were not uniformly low at all sites , and fractures can not easily be explained by the use of steroids or disease activity . |
| 26 | Almost half the Congo patients still had detectable parasitaemia on day 4 ; in Gabon all patients had a negative thick blood film on day 3 , and this may be explained by the use of a new formulation of halofantrine . |
| 27 | This difference could not be explained by the distribution of either histological types or admission types between the erm sites that had less than one hundred cases and those that had more than one hundred cases . |
| 28 | Reagan was supported by an exceptionally talented staff in his first term and it might be said that his legislative triumphs can best be explained by the quality of the team around him . |
| 29 | However , because of the low gravity of the Moon the compression inside it is also small , and the slight increase of density with depth is more than can be explained by the compression of a homogeneous material . |
| 30 | In some instances the researchers accepted that this pattern might be explained by the preponderance of mode B schemes ‘ but more often a process of ‘ guided drift ’ could be detected , based on a stereotyping of both young people and mode delivery ’ ( pp. 38 — 9 ) . |