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Example sentences for "explain what"

  • He was content to search for the truth and to explain what he found as best he could.

  • But before I begin, I wish in a few words to explain what I mean by the guidance of God, by the help of God, external and inward, and lastly, what I understand by fortune.

  • St. Hilaire remarks justly, that Aristotle might be expected to define or explain what it is, on first mentioning it (note, p.

  • The second portion of Plato's theory, advanced to explain what virtue is, presents nothing more satisfactory.

  • The old writers give examples of the subjunctive mood, and give other moods to explain what is meant by the words in the subjunctive.

  • And I explain what is meant by the nominative case governing the verb, and by the verb agreeing with its nominative case.

  • The old writers give examples of the subjunctive mode and give other modes to explain what is meant by the words in the subjunctive.

  • Explain what is meant by "a State within a State" as applied to the Church of the third and fourth centuries.

  • Explain what is meant by "The Puritan Church applied to its servant, the State," etc.

  • Explain what is meant by saying that Herbart conceived of education as broadly social, rather than personal.

  • Explain what is meant by the statements that Herbart rejected: (a) The conventional-social ideal of Locke.

  • I can't explain what it was, but now it's gone.

  • Ah, it is not necessary to explain what I mean.

  • And if these be such a thing as an implied wink, Honora received one as he proceeded to explain what he was pleased to call the bona-fide nature of the transactions of Dallam and Spence.

  • But this is part of what I mean to ask; and before I go on to explain what else I mean, I wish first to stop and enquire what is the answer to this part of my question.

  • But (2) to say that I am not using 'necessity' in this first sense, is by no means sufficient to explain what I do mean.

  • I say this not only to explain what is passing in my own mind, but also to warn the reader against too great confidence on these points, whatever may be the opinion which he adopts.

  • To explain what is the subjective representation of extension, abstracted from all that is objective.

  • This question is more difficult when we come to explain what relates to extension.

  • In a later lecture I shall have something to say of the revival of Pythagoreanism in the time of Cicero, and I need not now attempt to explain what such a revival might mean.

  • I must say a word about these two aspects of Man's position in the world, in order to explain what I believe to have been the effect of this teaching on the Roman mind.

  • He considers himself over-excited, feels "that he was out of sorts because he lacked something without being able to explain what, and this ill-humour he took everywhere with him.

  • He feels that he is out of sorts because he lacks something without being able to explain what.

  • Explain what is meant by goods "in transit.

  • Explain what is meant by an "animated discussion.

  • Explain what is meant by a "cogent argument.

  • Explain what is meant by the "Nicaragua transit.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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