Example sentences of "a [adj -er] understanding " in BNC.

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1 Catechism — ‘ a broader understanding
2 Here the response of the social worker must be to use appropriate communication skills , coupled with a broader understanding of the impact of a disaster on all involved .
3 People from industry or education with an appropriate level of management experience , both specialists and those with a broader understanding of today 's management issues , who have the ability to motivate and direct the study of busy professional people learning at a distance .
4 The next two cases , however , show a broader understanding of what ACAS was supposed to be doing .
5 We can gain a further understanding of how the size of the polymer chain affects the magnitude of ΔS M and why it differs from ( equation 8.7 ) , by recasting equation ( 8.22 ) in the following way .
6 To elaborate on this division and to gain a clearer understanding of the different types of social control , it would be useful for you to try a brief exercise , answering and discussing the following questions .
7 There is now a Christian TM Group based at Harbourne Hall , Birmingham , ‘ which seeks to promote … a clearer understanding of the value of TM for spiritual growth . ’
8 Despite this failing , a clearer understanding of all these design issues is emerging among donor agencies , private firms and government ministries .
9 To gain a clearer understanding of the differences between such schools of thought , and thus to see what the opposition between holism and individualism consists in , it is therefore essential to try to do something that the protagonists in such debates themselves seem unwilling to attempt ; to give a more precise account of the conflicting conceptions of individuals and their capacities that underlie these disagreements .
10 The material was carefully selected and organised to give a clearer understanding of this often hazily remembered period of German history .
11 Sociologists and social anthropologists now have a clearer understanding of the nature of their propositions , seeing them as attempts to provide interpretative accounts of one social group 's ways of living to another group , which has a different set of values and assumptions .
12 Such information , derived from experimental perturbation of the embryo , " nay lead eventually to a clearer understanding of the processes governing the initial organization and differentiation of the fetus .
13 Sue is convinced that it 's vital for young people to be exposed as early as possible to The Arts and attain a clearer understanding of life as a professional creative person .
14 It is rather an attempt to move from a clearer understanding of support tasks to the organisation of skill ( and staff ) mixes required to perform support tasks .
15 A clearer understanding of such anomalies , however , comes from probing beneath the curriculum labels .
16 He was the last of the brothers ; whether or not he had any part in their deaths he could be the key to a clearer understanding of the two who had died .
17 Staff were asked to rate their overall impression of the Back Office system but , as can be see from the branch perception graph , at the beginning of this year the measure was split to get a clearer understanding of branches ' perception of availability and response times .
18 This was particularly noticeable in relation to the development and use of pupil self-assessment procedures in some of the art departments visited , as a method for encouraging children to have a clearer understanding of what they are attempting to do , to enable them to have a more informed approach to criticism , but also as a very beneficial diagnostic tool for teachers to evaluate the effectiveness of their own teaching programmes .
19 The tasks used are spatial memory tasks which are normally used with neuropsychological patients , and it is hoped that the project will lead to a clearer understanding of the nature of spatial impairments following brain injury by clarifying the processing of spatial information presented simultaneously and sequentially .
20 This would lead to a clearer understanding of the relationships between international organisations , such as the European Community , which have acquired a measure of control over national policy , and the nations themselves .
21 This project aims to achieve a clearer understanding of all the contextual factors influencing decisions made by voters in a representative English country during the so-called ‘ first age of paraty , ’ thereby making a significant contribution to knowledge in the fields of historical psephology and eighteenth-century political history .
22 This research aims to provide a clearer understanding of the problems of adopting new technology and the implications which this can have on training provisions for UK businesses .
23 Achievement of this objective will permit a clearer understanding of the patterns and processes of population change in pressured rural areas , particularly within a contemporary context of accelerating land and property prices , both in absolute terms and relative to urban areas .
24 We must : ( i ) demonstrate to our citizens the benefits of the Community and the Maastricht Treaty ; ( ii ) make the Community more open , to ensure a better informed public debate on its activities ; ( iii ) respect the history , culture and traditions of individual nations , with a clearer understanding of what member states should do and what needs to be done by the Community ; ( iv ) make clear that citizenship of the Union brings our citizens additional rights and protection without in any way taking the place of their national citizenship …
25 The remedy could have been more appropriately applied if those prescribing it had offered us a clearer understanding of what a clause is and how far it may be similar to various other structures .
26 Armed with this information we must now determine how meaningful it is and to do this a clearer understanding of the factors governing the shape of the polymer is required .
27 From the gallery , one gains a clearer understanding of the plan and construction ( 190 ) .
28 The combination of these two measurements could be very useful in studies involving food intake in obese patients and its pharmacological regulation and also provide a clearer understanding of the physiological relationship between the stomach and appetite .
29 The results of Chapters 5 and 6 , together with the abstract analysis of graph search in this chapter , will give us a clearer understanding of why these strategies performed as they did .
30 Whether Socrates himself was ever helped towards a clearer understanding of matters by this process Plato does not tell us , but I must say I have always found that a tutorial strongly stimulated my own thinking .
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