explanation

• possible explanation

  What possible explanation can there be?

• causal explanation

  For this reason, something that is accepted as a satisfactory causal explanation at one point in time can become problematic at another.

• best explanation

  The best explanation of theoretical issues in intonation is Cruttenden (1986).

• explanation of why

  An explanation of why this should be is given in Chapter 1.

• explanation of how

  As a history and an explanation of how the cold war ended, Mr Shultz's memoirs are unmatched.

• simple explanation

  Perfectly simple explanation.

• detail explanation

• likely explanation

  The sheriff had said the most likely explanation was that the father had become exasperated.

• provide an explanation

  The ‘restructuring school’ argued that it was not possible to provide an explanation in terms of location factors alone; what was needed was to set these factors within the wider context of the restructuring of industry (Massey, 1979; Sayer, 1982).

• only explanation

  That's the only explanation, isn't it?’

• further explanation

  See text for further explanation.

• explanation i

  One explanation is only too obvious.

• type of explanation

• social explanation

  Althusser's abolition of the subject therefore commits him to an unequivocally holist account of social explanation.

• clear explanation

  I have become confused recently and would appreciate a clear explanation.

• satisfactory explanation

  We never have a satisfactory explanation of where it comes from.

• explanation should

  There were certainly suggestions that more explanation should have been given and that more discussion should have taken place.

• obvious explanation

  No obvious explanation was available and Customs and Excise raised an assessment.

• reasonable explanation

  Now he had vanished with no reasonable explanation whatever.