Example sentences of "explanation for the [noun pl] in " in BNC.

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1 In Chapter 3 , we looked at explanations for the differences in male and female criminality .
2 Adorno 's mistake here seems to rest on two aspects of his position , which in fact turn out to provide the two central explanations for the flaws in his argument .
3 Thus , we would suggest that these second types of explanation for the differences in the rate of crime between men and women — that female crime exists to a much greater extent than is indicated by the statistics but is just less often recorded — can not explain the enormous sex differences in recorded rates of crime .
4 The officials ' only remaining principal explanation for the cuts in ETB funding is that they are ‘ essential economies in the public expenditure budget ’ .
5 The Scarman Report , for example , located part of the explanation for the riots in the feelings of alienation and powerlessness which were experienced by young blacks living in depressed inner-city areas .
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