Example sentences of "[to-vb] and understand [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one of the things that archaeologists do all their time is try by looking at the evidence , whether it 's stuff that comes from the ground , landscapes or old buildings , to try and understand the changes that have happened through time , to see things that were there that have gone , and to work out what |
| 2 | Somehow these hints of vulnerability seemed to make her more attractive still , more likely to accept and understand the needs and fallibilities of others . |
| 3 | To know and understand the people among whom he lives is his way of travelling . |
| 4 | Can a cleaner on the shopfloor really be expected to know and understand the complex set of aims that a major corporation sets itself ? |
| 5 | Teachers of history will be helped in this process by children 's natural curiosity and their need to explore and understand the world around them . |
| 6 | The role of the professional is to listen and understand the parents ' views , aims , and expectations and to provide the parents with a range of suitable options and the necessary information from which to select . |
| 7 | A basic self-awareness ( a ) to reflect constructively about religion without being overwhelmed by prejudice , whether religious or non-religious ; ( b ) to see and understand the kind of assumptions about religion present in their environment and in society as a whole , and be prepared to think about these and not automatically either reject them or take them over ; ( c ) to develop trust in their own powers of perceptiveness and intuition , provided that this trust is balanced by openness towards the insights of others and the findings of fresh evidence ; ( d ) consequent on this , to develop willingness to modify , change , enlarge , or revise , what has so far been thought and felt about religion . |
| 8 | We see an experienced , clear-sighted man , looking back to see and understand the meaning of this young , immature boy 's actions . |
| 9 | You will not be unconscious at all , but will be able to hear and understand every word that is said . |
| 10 | But , most significant of all , she was able to hear and understand every word which was spoken . |
| 11 | Since subjects are instructed to read and understand the passage , the varying times which elapse between presentation of one part of a passage and the subject 's pressing of the button give an indication of the amount of time needed to comprehend that part of the passage . |
| 12 | Also Mr Lloyd fails to recognise and understand the distinction between an anti-smoker and a non-smoker . |
| 13 | During her studies in psychology and education , she encountered the work of Piaget , and discovered the fascination of trying to study and understand the development of children 's minds . |
| 14 | Few headteachers , let alone governors and teaching staff in schools , will have come across many of the local-authority service departments mentioned above and hence may often find it difficult to appreciate and understand the outcomes of their systems and policy-implementation decisions . |
| 15 | To teach effectively ( whether it be in the backstreets of Birmingham , in the gentility of Bath or the quietness of Beaumaris ) the teacher must come to appreciate and understand the lifestyle of the children in his or her care . |
| 16 | In any attempt to assess and understand the use and function , the economic and social benefits of community languages in the restricted domains of the work place and in the public services i.e. outside the domain of the household , it seems imperative that one look at the sociolinguistic and socioeconomic profiles of the different speech communities and the uses they can and do put their languages to . |
| 17 | In acknowledging other people 's active status , by finding out about them and their personal lives through informal socialising regardless of overt status , it 's possible to learn and understand a great deal . |
| 18 | The penalty one pays for this is that you never really get to learn and understand the basics behind simple design . |
| 19 | The travel industry is a diverse and dynamic one and it is essential that the programme produces competent , versatile people who react positively to change and understand the forces which bring it about . |
| 20 | The selection rules that govern the intensities of valence electronic transitions are derived from the quantum mechanical equations that are used to formalize and understand the processes involved . |
| 21 | Get Ready ! teaches pupils to say and understand a basic English vocabulary and a small number of useful expressions . |
| 22 | However , before dealing with such topics as the foreign exchange market , euro-currency markets and international agencies it is necessary to examine and understand the economic/financial problems faced by lesser developed countries . |
| 23 | Like the siting of settlements , attempts to examine and understand the patterns , and the distribution of settlements across the landscape , have traditionally been the preserve of geographers . |
| 24 | Watson also deserves credit for lifting the veil from Braidwood 's secret teaching methods by publishing after Braidwood 's death in 1806 a book entitled The Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb : or a theoretical and practical view of the means by which they are taught to speak and understand a language , which made the early technique of such teaching in this country public knowledge . |
| 25 | The term ‘ self-negotiated ’ can , however , also cause confusion , particularly in language teaching where students see their measure of success in their ability to speak and understand the target language and the progress they make in one particular course book . |