Three-quarters of the film, until the van begins to fall from the bridge, are devoted to explaining its plot.
The first 8 lessons are devoted to explaining and practicing the CBT derived principles.
Many papers, and indeed entire journals, are devoted to explaining how species coexist, why some localities are more diverse than others, and to tracking the rate at which biodiversity is being lost.
Since 1971 much effort has been devoted to explain earthquake on the basis of Dilatancy and fluid flow (Scholz et al., 1973).
In last decades, a lot of research has been devoted to explain the mechanisms of crystal growth and crystallisation pressure inside pores and their relation with crack propagation in materials such as natural stone, brick, mortar and concrete.
Therefore a great number of works have been devoted to explain the flattening behavior and the splashing mechanisms from different aspects, such as fluid dynamic, solidification behavior, surface wettability, and surface adsorbates/condensates.
Many efforts have been devoted to explain changes in or adherence to specific health behaviors.
For instance, if the patient was a smoker, more time has been devoted to explain smoking cessation programs.
The resorption behavior of OCs is routinely investigated on OCs cultured on bone slices, and most effort was devoted to explain the formation of "pits", i.e., round holes in the bone surface.
In this context, that a single cent of medical research should be devoted to explaining whom I choose to share my bed with, is utterly obscene.
