Example sentences of "to explain [Wh adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For context , the problem is to explain how contextually anomalous words can be identified ( e.g. , Norris , 1981 ) … |
| 2 | That left an embarrassed home goalkeeper Ogrizovic to explain how all 6ft 4in of him was beaten by a chip by Arsenal 's substitue from 20 yards and from a daunting angle . |
| 3 | Anyone would do as long as he was able to explain how that much money could be spirited away in under three months . |
| 4 | But the main reason was that I wanted to explain how far I felt we had come in our understanding of the universe : how we might be near finding a complete theory that would describe the universe and everything in it . |
| 5 | Trevor began to explain why not , about the pointlessness of formal education in an area where knowledge depended so much upon intuition , and also about how much he earned with his overtime at Batsby Ball Bearings . |
| 6 | During the interview , MacKie was asked to explain why nearly two million Shanks & McEwan shares had been sold with ‘ indecent haste ’ , after a meeting with the company 's chairman and if he had been told that Shanks & McEwan were going to issue a profits warning to the stock market . |
| 7 | Philip 's reluctance to risk battle helps to explain why even so famous a soldier as Richard never fought a battle in Europe , with the possible exception of his " battle " against Vulgrin of Angoulême 's mercenaries in 1176 — but that was probably a slaughter rather than a battle . |
| 8 | However , this analysis also fails to explain why even the reading aloud of single function words ( where there is no question of stress patterns in a sentence ) is so often impaired in Broca 's aphasia . |
| 9 | A week ago , sterling joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ; it lifted the gloom for the Tory Party Conference in Bournemouth , and this afternoon , the Chancellor , John Major , came to explain why now was the right time for Britain to join . |
| 10 | This was a real benefit , and helps to explain why so many medieval campaigns rapidly declined into a series of fruitless sieges and failed to lead to any deep penetration of enemy territory . |
| 11 | The British troops were very friendly with the Madeirans and many courted the local girls , which is said to explain why so many fair-haired and blue-eyed men and women of obvious Anglo-Saxon ancestry are to be seen in Madeira . |
| 12 | ( This helps to explain why so many English liberals ceased to support France when they heard that Paris had been taken over by the ‘ mob ’ in 1793 . ) |
| 13 | This ambiguity of language helps to explain why so many interpretations of Wordsworth 's philosophy and religion were able to arise . |
| 14 | But if the Franks were the dominant partner it is difficult to explain why so much material should have been channelled towards England with little apparently going back in return . |
| 15 | In Nuuk are all the comforts of civilisation , but also much boredom and drinking , which may go some way to explain why so many young Greenland men are destroying themselves . |
| 16 | In order to explain why only some women but not others who experience such problems develop depression , they suggest that other social factors ( such as a lack of a confiding relationship in marriage ) make some women more vulnerable than others . |