Example sentences of "is to explain [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of his book is to explain historically the intellectual origins of the ‘ Keynesian revolution ’ . |
| 2 | For the writer of I Samuel , the story is to explain why the temple was built on the threshing floor of Araunah . |
| 3 | It is harder to explain why the government involved the public in its actions than it is to explain why the various parties involved in the preparation of the rescript thought it could be turned to their advantage . |
| 4 | One purpose of the myth is to explain how the individual with his narcissistic needs relates to the more socialistic demands of the group , such as the business enterprise . |
| 5 | The problem then is to explain how the state came to be formed historically , through the dissolution of the primitive communal group ; and a broadly Marxist account of this process ( leaving aside here the diverse interpretations and controversies among Marxist sociologists and anthropologists ) rests essentially upon the conception of a change in the mode of production , involving a greater inequality of property , which itself is brought about by a development of the forces of production through technological progress . |
| 6 | The aim of such models is to explain how the constraints and incentives implied by the institutional structure affect the working out of divergent objectives . |
| 7 | The problem , in terms of the present discussion , is to explain how the evolution of the id and the ego up to the point at which hunting began could have resulted in its success and could have brought about the adaptive advance represented by self-reproducing hunting bands . |