Example sentences of "can only [be] [adv] understood [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , in a very real sense socialisation can only be properly understood as an aspect of all activity within human societies . |
| 2 | But the significance of the political and religious events of the mid sixteenth century , and in particular Mary 's part in shaping them , can only be properly understood in the context of the traditional political and social patterns which had created the sixteenth-century Scottish kingdom . |
| 3 | Each sphere is typically characterized by a representative institution , cohesive structures of practices , organized and patterned , which can only be properly understood in terms of their transnational effects . |
| 4 | Legal issues , like other technical problems , can only be properly understood within their broader social context , and this is especially so when our purpose is not only to understand the world , but to change it . ’ |
| 5 | The reason why I run culture and ideology together to identify the institutionalization of consumerism is that consumerism in the global system can only be fully understood as a cultural-ideological practice . |
| 6 | The movies were something very new and they soon developed a unique and distinctive position within the culture but that position can only be fully understood by reference to that context of nineteenth-century popular culture from which they emerged . |