Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' understanding of " in BNC.

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1 clients ' understanding of risk warn the Client of the extent to which he may be exposed to risk
2 The Diploma is an in-service qualification , designed to broaden participants ' understanding of the principles as well as the practice of teaching EFL .
3 Tone greatly aids the researchers ' understanding of Creole grammar , which appears less simple than was thought .
4 In addition , employing such a model effectively is dependent on the managers ' understanding of a number of important issues : the nature of transformation , the implications of transformational change , the organizational conditions and behavioral changes that are necessary for transformation to succeed , and the challenges and dilemmas that are likely to be encountered .
5 He questioned the new Clause 's sponsors ' understanding of what was ‘ normal ’ , and for good measure said that when he had visited the Soviet Union he had not liked it — there were no sex shops , a lot of censorship , and they denied that homosexuals existed .
6 It has been found that there has been a significant increase in the villagers ' understanding of all aspects of the disease .
7 Theory of mind : pre-schoolers ' understanding of agents and episodes
8 It is clear that computer designers need the chemists ' understanding of the physical and chemical properties of silicon and the III-Vs and the rules under which they seem to operate at the atomic and molecular levels .
9 He has introduced training programmes in conjunction with such august management institutions as Ashridge Management College to broaden the scope of partners ' understanding of the outside business world .
10 In the USA at least , there needs to be an improvement in scientists ' understandings of how to influence the allocation of funding for remedial measures or for further research ( see Kitsos and Ashe 1989 ) .
11 They say their results show there is still work to be done on professionals ' understanding of the concept of collaboration , as nurses and physicians did not agree on the amount taking place .
12 One way to enhance the searchers ' understanding of the indexing is to make the schedules available online .
13 ( i ) An applicant will have to have attended at least one major conference on medical negligence and one medical course for lawyers devoted specifically to enhancing the lawyers ' understanding of medicine generally in the three years prior to the application .
14 His focus is on teachers ' understandings of , and attempts to cope with the situations they experience in schools , and the various pressures and constraints that shape the teaching environment and over which teachers have little control .
15 Teachers ' understanding of industry will influence their attitudes towards it , and the attitudes of their students .
16 In the face of even further diversion of financial resources for training away from special needs , can we build on what expertise we have to find economic and yet effective ways to overcome the present difficulties , to deepen all teachers ' understanding of learning and behaviour problems and of the way in which they might be resolved within the learning situation of the classroom ?
17 to deepen teachers ' understanding of individual needs
18 To achieve the twofold aims of consultation — deepening teachers ' understanding of any pupil 's special needs , and enhancing their ability to meet them — the consultative role has been geared as outlined to :
19 Given the widely-held view that foreign language teaching ‘ failed ’ in this country ( e.g. D.E.S. , 1986 ; 2 ) it is important for teachers ' understanding of their work and their own self- esteem that they should know about societal attitudes to languages .
20 the extent of teachers ' understanding of what is required by the scheme and their feelings of competence to meet these requirements .
21 The programme also aims to broaden Christian communicators ' understanding of ‘ development ’ , which embraces not only food , clothing , shelter and employment , but also culture , ethnicity and religion .
22 I am sure Harlequins ' Troy Coker makes an invaluable contribution to the other players ' understanding of the game .
23 In this sense , the antiracists ' understanding of racist ideologies and racist subjects or individuals is no more sophisticated than that of the multiculturalists .
24 The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively , in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose .
25 The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose .
26 The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose .
27 1.8 The three profile components we recommend are as follows : • speaking and listening — with one attainment target : the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose .
28 speaking and listening — with one attainment target ; the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose ;
29 Innovations in teaching methods do not usually come in the form of simple additions to a teacher 's repertoire , generalizable to all subject matters , but are usually designed to achieve more effectively an understanding of some particular X. Usually , for a variety of reasons , the descriptions of ‘ how to proceed ’ are not at a level of precision which makes the teacher a programmed automaton ; it follows that any teacher persuaded to adopt the innovation must be willing and able to explore modifications to his repertoire in order to try and achieve the hoped-for improvement in his pupils ' understanding of X at which the innovation is aimed .
30 It is clear , however , that oral interaction can be a means whereby teachers may probe pupils ' understanding of various aspects of mathematics .
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