Example sentences of "[pron] can only [be] understood [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also have a strong international dimension since they argue that these forces are aspects ‘ of the continued development of world economy , an economy which can only be understood as a single , integrated system ’ . |
| 2 | It sometimes seems that individuals have a startling impact on this pattern which can only be understood by appealing to specific psychological traits . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Carew Hunt , who was an authority at the Foreign Office on international communism and who wrote The Theory and Practice of Communism , argues that it can only be understood in religious terms . |
| 5 | Since all action is meaningful , it can only be understood by discovering the meanings which actors assign to their activities . |