Example sentences of "[adj] explanation is that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scholarly explanation is that the three words are past participles meaning ‘ numbered ’ , ‘ weighed ’ and in the case of Upharsin both ‘ divided ’ and ‘ Persians . ’ |
| 2 | Various reasons have been offered for this decline , but the most likely explanation is that the general conditions of recession in Britain have been exacerbated by other factors peculiar to the recording industry . |
| 3 | The most likely explanation is that the patterning results from the difference in the position of the cells and hence their different environment . |
| 4 | The obvious explanation is that the first reports of allied successes suggested that the war would be short . |
| 5 | The obvious explanation is that the finer points of selection were to be left to the LEAs as compensation for loss of power , because central direction was unnecessary . |
| 6 | Our only alternative explanation is that the higher referral rates in the fundholding group compared with non-fundholding group in the year before the introduction of fundholding represent an atypical year for these practices . |
| 7 | An alternative explanation is that the solid core at the centre of the Earth 's liquid iron core is an essential source of energy for a powerful magnetic dipole moment ( section 2.1.7 ) . |
| 8 | The physical explanation is that the dielectric is capable of carrying a higher flux density . |
| 9 | Indeed the highest incidence of minority opinions was dissent by the chairman which could be said to lend weight to the second view , though a more probable explanation is that the lay members took a view on the merits which the chairman regarded as untenable in law . |
| 10 | The only possible explanation is that the new Bill is needed as a diversion , an event to divert attention from the real needs of the prison system , needs which the Government do not and will not face . |
| 11 | One possible explanation is that the increased immunoreactive gastrin circulating in patients with H pylori infection is of reduced biological activity or indeed not biologically active at all . |
| 12 | A possible explanation is that the Celtic tradition remained in these areas longer than the south and west , the people of which with their close Gallic links had been subject to greater Roman influence before the conquest , this region too was where the vast majority of the figured pottery was made . |
| 13 | Kellner says one possible explanation is that the 20 per cent of the electorate who refused to respond to the exit polls were disproportionately Tory , or that some voters lied , or both . |
| 14 | A possible explanation is that the reduced bile flow as shown in cholesterol gall stone patients may enhance the absorption of water in the bile duct and may thus produce hepatic bile with a greater total lipid concentration . |
| 15 | ( A third possible explanation is that the whole story was made up , to impress unbelievers , by the apostle Matthew or whoever wrote the gospel ascribed to him . |
| 16 | A plausible explanation is that a poloidal magnetic field draws cosmic-ray protons out of the plane before many have interacted with molecular gas , which is confined to a very thin layer ( 40pc thick ) . |