Example sentences of "to explain [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is already fashionable to explain away the scale of the election successes — by such factors as the Falklands , Foot , Benn , and an inept Labour campaign in 1983 , and prosperity and the disproportional electoral system in 1987 — the results marked a further stage in the decline of the Labour party . |
| 2 | It can not be easy to explain away the disappearance of 105,070 books from the stock of Brent Central Library at Willesden Green as part of the £8 million scheme of development . |
| 3 | When my right hon. Friend meets the CBI in the north-east , will he try to explain away the inconsistency that has occurred in the Labour party ? |
| 4 | One official said : ‘ It took us some time to explain away the opening ceremony episode . |
| 5 | When we look at Poe 's tales , the structure seems predictable , even formulaic : the dawning sense that all is not as it should be ; the attempts to explain away the moaning sounds that something inside him is nevertheless compelling him to hear ; the fight with fancy , as if one could will away one 's deepest fear ; and then the horrified recognition that what one was most afraid of is there , behind the antique panels , waiting to throw one to the floor . |
| 6 | Anyone who wants to explain away the material I have offered in the interview extracts will merely have to look up item ( 7 ) . |
| 7 | He used the same language as that employed by the Chinese government to explain away the unrest that the democracy movement unleashed in May and June — namely that it was the work of a ‘ handful of evil-doers ’ . |
| 8 | Somewhat bruised , the raiding party made their way back to their rendezvous on foot , with David Stirling wondering how he was going to explain away the loss of the truck . |
| 9 | To accept the implication of this finding makes it difficult to explain away the dissociation obtained by Hall and Channell ( 1985b ) ( the observation that latent inhibition is context dependent when habituation is not ) , which came from an experiment using the same response measures , stimuli , and procedures as were used by Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Eurasia removed much of the Neotropical megafauna of the Pleistocene , but if humans were there in significant numbers as long ago as recent evidence suggests , then it is difficult to explain away the collapse of that fauna . |
| 11 | I shall try to explain further the significance of this distinction in the pages that follow . |
| 12 | The results confirm the so-called Standard Model , the theory which physicists have built up over the past 15 years to explain both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it . |
| 13 | Thus the computer model will go some way towards giving a fundamental understanding of the dynamics of the shaft itself without being able to explain fully the contribution made by the individual player . |
| 14 | In order to explain fully the story of the Louth-Bardney goods train it is necessary to describe the line 's history and situation . |
| 15 | I tried to explain then the basis on which we maintain contacts with the Palestinians . |
| 16 | This section is designed to explain briefly the operation of various exchange rate arrangements , before we analyse in more depth in this and the next chapter how the type of exchange rate system influences the adjustment mechanism . |
| 17 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , for example , can hardly be expected to explain publicly the extent to which our joining the ERM has tied his hand . |
| 18 | It is impossible to explain satisfactorily the passion that Shah Jehan had in this direction . |