Example sentences of "to understand [adv] [Wh det] " in BNC.

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1 I should however indicate that to understand properly what is the appropriate position for an inset boundary , I have to look at the reasons for there being an inset at all for the village , as , as you correctly indicate , it lies plainly otherwise within the general extent of the greenbelt .
2 In this respect it is very important to understand just what he meant by exchange .
3 So it 's vital to understand just what the right weight is , and how to feed a bird to keep it fit but well fed .
4 Because troubadour music and poetry were vital elements in the atmosphere which Richard breathed throughout his life it is important to understand just what courtly love was .
5 She helped us try to understand just what life is like for her .
6 Anthropologists of all kinds are greatly concerned to understand just what , if anything , is universally true of human society .
7 By calculating the cost of doing something wrong or ‘ the price of non-conformance , ’ it is possible to understand just what it means to a business in monetary terms .
8 They are entitled to know what is going on , and to be helped to understand exactly what steps are being taken .
9 It is important , however , to understand exactly what the connection is between faith and miracle .
10 And you 'll come to understand exactly what I mean by that it 's all about three dimensional space .
11 He talks to almost no one , yet most everyone seems to understand exactly what he means .
12 However , it is not really necessary to understand exactly what imaginary time is — just that it is different from what we call real time .
13 I want you to understand exactly what is expected by the time I see you tomorrow . ’
14 Each performer needs to understand exactly what to do .
15 It is very important , though , to understand exactly what this means .
16 Er , it 's been coming in gradually over the years , but there 's been an awful lot of , of er , resistance by some manufacturers on what they say on their labels , and what they say about what they 're selling us , and er , if they 're gon na do this , and I 'm getting a , a slight suspicion , and I think Mr is , that , that it 's got to be done eventually , and we , we have to be able , as a buying public , to understand exactly what we 're buying before we actually get it home .
17 But it took her some moments to understand exactly what he was saying , her senses reeling at the warmth of the hard naked chest pressed so closely to her soft breasts , her nostrils savouring the erotic , musky scent of his skin .
18 Another of the experiments demonstrated how important it is , if punishment is to work , for children to understand clearly what they are doing wrong and what alternative actions they can choose .
19 While the Indians appear to understand roughly what we 're doing — they 're happy to do retakes and do n't seem at all put out by this great big eye being pointed at them — they do n't seem to understand about the idea of acting .
20 We have to come to terms with the fact that people 's experience of God differs enormously and the way they talk about God differs enormously , and in order for us to understand even what we mean we 've got to listen to them .
21 Make borrowing fair and honest ; bring bargaining between borrower and lender out into the open , with the borrower being given the opportunity to understand precisely what he was letting himself in for , and in that knowledge to make his choice .
22 Although many attribute to Lo Tak-shing possession of the most byzantine — and very possibly the cleverest -mind in Hong Kong politics , few claim to understand quite what he seems to be doing with it .
23 Sandison could not be sure how much Maidstone had had to drink that day — it was still a few minutes before noon — but he knew that he was sober enough to understand fully what was going on .
24 ‘ the parental right to determine whether or not their minor child below the age of 16 will have medical treatment terminates if and when the child achieves a sufficient understanding and intelligence to enable him or her to understand fully what is proposed .
25 ‘ In the light of the foregoing I would hold that as a matter of law the parental right to determine whether or not their minor child below the age of 16 will have medical treatment terminates if and when the child achieves a sufficient understanding and intelligence to enable him or her to understand fully what is proposed .
26 I would say rather that , both despite and because of the obvious and considerable differences , post/modernism is helping us to understand again what the early modern period already knew but in a quite different form : identity is essentially informed by what it is not .
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