Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] understanding of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It can greatly assist your understanding of the overall organisation of the book .
2 The Franciscans had a specially charismatic gift for transmitting their understanding of the inward nature of redemption .
3 The conference was helpful in aiding my understanding of the great mass of information that I am faced with in my volunteer role .
4 Managing Corporate Affairs and Public Relations — a five-day residential course , for senior executives wishing to update and improve their understanding of the strategic role of Public Relations , and for senior PR Managers wishing to maximise their effectiveness within their organisations .
5 Managing Corporate Affairs and Public Relations — a five-day programme for senior executives wishing to update and improve their understanding of the strategic role of public relations .
6 He urged that Soviet diplomats should improve their understanding of the foreign policy problems of a communist Russia by studying the diplomatic history and traditions of the tsarist empire .
7 From such a generalized synthesis of the morphology of the small towns , it is possible to begin to define several recurring features which can help to evaluate our understanding of the overall level of complexity at individual sites , although these will clearly need to be refined as more new evidence emerges from the ground .
8 In fact , Lok has made comparisons before this , when , as on this occasion , he was struggling to express his understanding of the new people : " " " He changes shape like a bear in a cave " " " and " " " He is like a cat and he is not like a cat .
9 A similar state of affairs affects our understanding of the somatosensory system .
10 The research aims to extend our understanding of the differing effects of restructuring and privatisation on the dynamics of labour relations within industrial enterprises .
11 It grows and develops : all members play their part in this , as they feed their understanding of the revealed message by their ‘ contemplation and study ’ and by experience of ‘ spiritual realities ’ ( DV 8 ; cf.
12 And all the whole , French scientists continued to do just what they had always done — make new discoveries and expand our understanding of the natural world .
13 However , when scientists first tried to work out how life on Earth got started , they had to perfect their understanding of the original primeval gases , and whether and how such gases changed their nature .
14 On the one hand he can support his understanding of the institutional expectations by simply repeating those inculcated practices he has learned as a neophyte from the ‘ stories of the great days of policing ’ , which are interminably repeated ‘ at the charge room desk ’ or ‘ taken on at Nellie 's knee ’ .
15 To clarify our understanding of the predictive validity of measures of attention in early infancy ( birth to 6 months ) for children 's later cognitive functioning ;
16 Additionally , two regional transect lines are being included : they will traverse the margin in a bid to define the crustal structure better , and to improve our understanding of the tectonic framework .
17 Normal co-ordinate analysis aims to provide a quantitative analysis of such mixing of local or group modes , and so to improve our understanding of the vibrational motions of a molecule .
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25 Instead of being taken for granted as a set of explanatory standards which will bolster and enhance our understanding of the social world , individualism may appear to offer only a narrow and distorting lens through which to inspect it .
26 It will also aid our understanding of the wider effects of the Education Reform Act , with special reference to the enhanced role given to governing bodies and parent forums , and also to the relative diminution in the position of the LEAs .
27 On the one hand , we have social scientists offering their understanding of the social structures and processes affecting people 's behaviour .
28 In a field which is continually changing , the trainers have to keep their own interpreting skills up to date and their knowledge of the services in which they are training students to work and continually improve their understanding of the cognitive and linguistic processes which underpin those skills .
29 Clarify your understanding of the other s position .
30 Clarify your understanding of the main differences between narrative , description and analysis in historical writing .
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