Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] understood in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggestion that the masculine God should be understood in a more female or feminine way is however not without problems . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They all concern , in different ways , the appearance-reality distinction , because cognisance must be understood in terms of our drawing this distinction in every area of our mental life . |
| 9 | In this paper we shall argue that the Act must be understood in terms of themes , issues , developments and conflicts that emerged in the 1970s , and worked themselves out in the 1980s . |
| 10 | Men of sport must be understood in relation to their historical and social conditions . |
| 11 | Even the factory system , the characteristic form of production of the new industrialized Europe , must be understood in a special sense : in 1898 there were 8,500 power-using ‘ factories , in London , and they employed an average of only forty-one workers each . |
| 12 | Here we are assailed by imperatives : we must not be satisfied by collective explanations , social phenomena must be understood in individualist terms . |
| 13 | What they are capable of in the way of understanding and manipulating their own situation is itself determined by the whole structured in dominance , and the idea of strategy itself must be understood in holist terms . |
| 14 | Coherence , however , must be understood in terms of value , of ‘ what ought to be ’ . |
| 15 | Japanese society has evolved singular features , which must be understood in the context of a very particular historical development , in which a profound sense of uniqueness , separateness and isolation has been a major element . |
| 16 | First , there is the general point that political discourse must be understood in its argumentative context . |
| 17 | The assumption , that the meaning of an attitude must be understood in relation to the wider argumentative context , has a number of social psychological implications . |
| 18 | " The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War must be understood in the context of traditional society and the economic stresses it suffered in the 1920 's and 1930's . |
| 19 | An animal 's behavioural adaptations must be understood in the context of its feeding ecology : of the diet it is seeking to fulfil . |
| 20 | Public enterprise is part of the state ; its logic of action , and hence the functioning of its industrial relations , must be understood in terms of the place that it occupies within the state . |
| 21 | The therapist encouraged them to consider the possibility that the act might be understood in terms of both these motives and that this highlighted the need for improved communication between them . |
| 22 | The task for the teacher might be understood in terms of two interconnected functions : |
| 23 | It might be understood in advance that the proportion of women who would be permitted an abortion would be fixed by the ratio of votes for permitting all abortions to total votes . |
| 24 | So , for example , an expression like Joan is singing well could be understood in either the temporariness or the limited duration sense . |
| 25 | At the beginning of the century it was believed that everything could be understood in terms of continuum mechanics . |
| 26 | I ask that at this stage at least it be kept confidential among us , as it could be understood in the wrong way . |
| 27 | While the short-term expediency of such a position may be understood in the light of the desperate state of access to inland waters in England and Wales , as paddlers we must never allow ourselves to give any solace to the polluters . |
| 28 | And the jus of lex may be understood in terms of faithfulness to the formal principles inherent in the character of lex . |
| 29 | Such efforts to engage with discourses on quality by means of notions like " taste " and " style " may be understood in terms of challenges issuing from the peripheries of the discipline , as well as beyond its boundaries , which called upon the leaders of English studies to provide an account of " literary quality " of at least equal force to those being generated outside the Review 's pages . |
| 30 | Such defects commonly occur in Bénard convection experiments , as may be understood in the following way . |