Example sentences of "explained [prep] terms " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems which these and other patients suffer can mostly be explained in terms of detailed functional models of face processing such as that proposed by Bruce and Young ( 1986 ) , in the same way that patients ' different reading problems could be explained by Coltheart ( 1985 ) . |
| 2 | The theory of natural selection meant that natural species could be explained in terms of the conditions necessary for their survival , and it seemed a small further step to explaining human social systems in such terms ; that is , in terms of the ways by which human beings gained their livelihood and reproduced . |
| 3 | This is explained in terms of the nature of the Germanic invasions which brought about the destruction of the Roman Empire and is dealt with in Chapters 7 and 8 . |
| 4 | Football hooliganism , therefore , can neither be explained in terms of simple continuities nor as an abrupt discontinuity ; the location and the specific forms of juvenile riotousness were new but the phenomenon itself was as old as the hills . |
| 5 | The phenomena it studies , such as pity and benevolence , are explained in terms of a basic desire for pleasure , and aversion to pain , and in their turn these are explained in terms of the ‘ vital motion ’ of the blood . |
| 6 | The phenomena it studies , such as pity and benevolence , are explained in terms of a basic desire for pleasure , and aversion to pain , and in their turn these are explained in terms of the ‘ vital motion ’ of the blood . |
| 7 | In a similar way the phenomena of political philosophy , ‘ the civil duties of a subject ’ , are , we shall see , reduced to , or explained in terms of , their causes in our basic desire for the pleasurable enhancement of the blood 's vital motion . |
| 8 | Something more of the requisite independence could be achieved by Berkeley 's doctrine that ideas which are not subject to our own will are produced in us by God : the independence of a real thing , its having some continuity despite interrupted perception of it , could be explained in terms of a continued readiness on God 's part to excite the requisite ideas in us at suitable moments . |
| 9 | And the replacement of anti-Semitism by anti-Marxism as early as 1922–23 as the main ‘ hate-theme ’ of his public addresses , and the relatively low profile of anti-Semitism in his speeches during the 1930s , can again only be explained in terms of a conscious decision to limit the public expression of his own phobias and paranoia for political and diplomatic purposes , to provide a wider appeal and to avoid gratuitous alienation at home and abroad . |
| 10 | The 1647 drop in production too might well have been mistakenly explained in terms of the course of the war . |
| 11 | Personal and social problems are explained in terms of the unequal distribution of power and resources in society . |
| 12 | The true basis of the cation selectivity of zeolites is not completely understood but can usually be explained in terms of the specific molecular architecture of the zeolite frameworks ( always large enough to accommodate caesium ) , the relative amount of silicon and aluminium in the zeolite framework , and the hydration state of the cations . |
| 13 | Such congregations seem more easily explained in terms of opportunities for relating and for sexual behaviour . |
| 14 | First , good generalization from A to B can be readily explained in terms of mediation by the associate . |
| 15 | The essence of his argument was that life in general , and development in particular , could not be encompassed or explained in terms of physics and chemistry . |
| 16 | Many factors may contribute to the increased incidence of large-vessel disease in diabetic patients , as in non-diabetic subjects ; however , the increased incidence in diabetics has not been fully explained in terms of known risk factors ( Jarrett et al , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | Violence at football matches has been explained in terms of the changing nature of the game itself and of the relationship between football clubs , and their players , and the communities in which they exist . |
| 18 | In part that might be explained in terms of the powers of resistance possessed by the bureaucracies under attack , so that whatever change is proposed it is soon absorbed and reinterpreted by the very groups it is intended to undermine . |
| 19 | Within such a context it is easier to see how a series of advances , retreats and confusing divisions can be explained as part of a general shift which is of wider significance than the accumulation of a mass of detailed incidents , each of which can only be fully explained in terms of its own unique genesis . |
| 20 | This is difficult to define satisfactorily , but in the context of brief therapy it involves the therapist suggesting to the patient the possible motivation underlying his behaviour , with the objective of increasing understanding as a step towards behaviour change ( e.g. overeating may be explained in terms of a patient 's need for comfort at times of loneliness so that the patient may be more able to tackle the problem ) . |
| 21 | In Cambridge , J. M. Winter of Pembroke College , argued that infant mortality data were better explained in terms of long run socioeconomic changes than short-term fluctuations . |
| 22 | An unhappy marriage is more likely to be explained in terms of current stresses than in relation to what has gone on long before . |
| 23 | Part of their resistance may be explained in terms of the inappropriate methods pursued in the past by well-meaning people who were ‘ foreigners ’ to the area . |
| 24 | All of this seemed to be well understood until early this century , because it was explained in terms of Newton 's theory of gravitation . |
| 25 | Many non-neutral uses of gender-neutral words ( like citizen ) can not be explained in terms of speakers ' commonsense assumptions that men do certain things and women other things . |
| 26 | Frustrations on a group scale may be explained in terms of the group finding release by going to war with its neighbours , or through a collective cathartic experience such as a ritual performance . |
| 27 | To the Chewong , disease is always explained in terms of one of the above-mentioned attributes being upset in some way , usually through the interference of a non-human being . |
| 28 | Thus , in the anthropological literature , ritual is often explained in terms of ‘ letting off steam ’ . |
| 29 | Those differences in income with age which remain after considering each type of household separately can mainly be explained in terms of two factors . |
| 30 | Similarly , the resources of elderly people are more clearly explained in terms of their stage of life than of their age . |