Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] understood [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This programme of study and action should be understood to be part of the wider conciliar process for Justice , Peace and Integrity of Creation , which was initiated by the World Council of Churches . |
| 2 | The first meaning should be understood as the inspiration which has urged the choreographer to create . |
| 3 | This definition should be understood as the choreographer 's ability to establish a style of movement through which the audience will feel and understand what the performers are communicating through a particular way of dancing . |
| 4 | He questions whether the word ‘ active ’ should be understood as an antonym of ‘ reflective ’ or ‘ critical ’ . |
| 5 | His views on civil association and the rule of law should be understood as expressions of the values of the ancient conception of the rule of law . |
| 6 | The promise of enlarged democratic rights had encouraged the ‘ playful giant ’ to be less submissive than formerly , Arnold thought , and he was beginning to assert with increasing regularity ‘ his right to march where he likes , meet where he likes , enter where he likes , hoot as he likes , threaten as he likes , smash as he likes ’ : Matthew Arnold thus proposed in the late 1860s that crime and disorder should be understood as a consequence of the already evident ‘ permissive ’ disintegration of the stable traditions , and although he was not narrowly obsessed with street violence and rowdyism , nevertheless these were an integral feature of his vision of decay — something which was deeply characteristic of this era . |
| 7 | In The Act of Reading , Wolfgang Iser argues that the literary work should be understood as a means of communication rather than as a representation of the world : ‘ It is a vital feature of literary texts that they do not lose their ability to communicate ; indeed , many of them can still speak even when their message has long since passed into history and their meaning no longer seems to be of importance ’ ( 1978:13 ) . |
| 8 | example A thesis arguing that Robert Louis Stevenson should be understood as an early example of twentieth-century Modernism rather than as a late example of nineteenth-century Realism . |
| 9 | It is a modernising and strengthening of the links between the Labour Party and the trade union movement and should be understood as that . ’ |
| 10 | In this context , the well-known late sixteenth-century comments about the best English being spoken in the London area should be understood for what they are , and not necessarily as a sign of standardized pronunciation . |
| 11 | Far be it from me to criticize comments made in the heat of the moment , which should be understood for what they are , cries of unendurable suffering , a passionate outburst of all-too-comprehensible anguish . |
| 12 | This suggestion that the masculine God should be understood in a more female or feminine way is however not without problems . |
| 13 | Billig ( 1985 , 1987 ) suggests that , in order to understand this capacity for negation , social psychologists should describe the processes of social thinking in terms of opposing pairs : every process should be understood in terms of a counter-process . |
| 14 | In the first place , alterations in one 's attitudinal stance can not just be related to the internal affective state of the attitude-holder , but should be understood in terms of the rhetorical context of controversy . |
| 15 | In contrast , blurred or tinkly timbres should be understood in the context of general timbre-codes in popular music ( and , more generally , in Western music as a whole ) . |
| 16 | Spencer argued that sexual difference was a product of mankind 's successful adaptation to social survival and that it should be understood in terms of women 's individual evolution being arrested earlier than men 's to permit the conservation of their energies for reproduction . |
| 17 | ‘ Institutions ’ here should be understood in a sense consistent with Weber 's sociology of religion , in which the institutions of the church mediate between the prophetic reactors of religious ideas and the ‘ laity ’ ( Bourdieu 1987 ) . |
| 18 | Viennese culture , as Schorske suggests , should be understood in terms of two polar opposite ideal-types , the first aristocratic , Catholic , and aestheticist and the second bourgeois , legalist , rationalist , and moral-scientific . |
| 19 | If it is to be felt by the participants then it is not too much to suggest that it should be understood by the teacher . |
| 20 | Do not be overly concerned with the correctness of rich picture , particularly in terms of format and layout , although the conventions used should be understood by all the analysts involved . |
| 21 | It was desirable that the words of the liturgy should be understood by the congregation and that the congregation should take part in the singing . |
| 22 | Does the Prime Minister agree that the statement by Terry Waite 's captors that they now recognise that they did wrong and that what they did has served no useful purpose should be understood by all those who engage in the vile practice of taking hostages , anywhere ? |
| 23 | The organization and reorganization of the state must be understood to be at least as much the product of the wishes of state officials as of social pressures . |
| 24 | Delineating his theory of retreat into illness as a means of obtaining power , he wrote , ‘ Every neurosis must be understood as an attempt to free oneself from a feeling of inferiority in order to gain a feeling of superiority . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The answer is simple ’ , Rollin comments , and quotes Dworkin 's argument that the American Bill of Rights ‘ must be understood as an appeal to moral concepts rather than laying down particular conceptions ’ , taking this ( rightly ) to mean that ‘ one must use moral arguments ; one must present moral reasons and discussion ’ ( 1981 : 75 ) . |
| 26 | According to Oakeshott , civil association must be understood as a form of moral association . |
| 27 | Given , therefore , that the company has come about essentially through private means , it must be understood as a private body , to be run by the corporators for their own self-selected purposes , and without any obligation to further the greater good . |
| 28 | These internal barriers must be understood as the natural consequence of attempting to combine together multi-interest groups possessing different power and influence . |
| 29 | Each patient must be understood as an individual . |
| 30 | We have already seen that indirectly the question in utterance ( i ) must be understood as a request . |