Example sentences of "only [be] understood [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They show that the sites of Shoreham , Seaford , Pevensey , Hastings , Rye and Winchelsea can only be understood in the context of considerable , and in some cases drastic , coastal changes in the last 1000 years . |
| 32 | The main contention which the authors intend to examine is that the role of such personnel can only be understood in dynamic context . |
| 33 | A culture can only be understood from within . |
| 34 | They could only be understood by those educated as courtiers . |
| 35 | It sometimes seems that individuals have a startling impact on this pattern which can only be understood by appealing to specific psychological traits . |
| 36 | Since all action is meaningful , it can only be understood by discovering the meanings which actors assign to their activities . |
| 37 | Thus in the Mediterranean basin the evolution of valleys ( Vita-Finzi , 1969 ) could only be understood by reference to human activity and , more biogeographically , the significance of cultural biogeography was exemplified by the work of Professor D.R. Harris , which was initially in the field of historical ecology but proceeded to embrace the domestication of plants and animals ( e.g. Harris , 1968 ) and which later led to greater contacts with archaeology and to his appointment as Professor of Archaeology in the University of London in 1979 . |
| 38 | When Mukařovský ( 1936 and 1970 : 70ff. ) wrote of art , literature , or poetry as semiological facts , he meant that artistic works constitute particular kinds of signs which can only be understood within the framework of a general sign-theory . |
| 39 | Health policy can only be understood within the context of the ideas and values which have shaped its development historically . |
| 40 | The relationship between Government and Parliament can only be understood against the background of the convention of ministerial responsibility . |
| 41 | By dwelling on this complex chain of cause and effect , Gouldner indicated that the strike could only be understood against the background of changes in the employment relationship . |