Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] only [be] understood " in BNC.
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| 1 | Religion can only be understood ‘ on the pattern of individual neurotic symptoms ’ . |
| 2 | The effects of retirement can only be understood on an individual basis , its significance depending upon a personal interpretation of the value and importance of work , and what the individual wants and expects from the rest of his or her life . |
| 3 | The impact of this arrival of South Asian calico can only be understood in terms of those wider social changes already referred to . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As Graff argues , literacy can only be understood in context : ‘ it can be established neither arbitrarily nor uniformly for all members of the population ’ ( 1979 , p. 292 ) . |
| 6 | So the struggle became to some extent a contest between the German bishops and the pope , and the position of the German bishops in extending the conflict can only be understood if we understand their relationships with the political parties and the rival claimants . |
| 7 | The remarkable role he played in Russia 's development can only be understood in terms of his total immersion — intellectual , emotional , moral — in Marxism . |
| 8 | Health policy can only be understood within the context of the ideas and values which have shaped its development historically . |
| 9 | But the very nature of advice can only be understood if we understand in what spirit it is meant to be offered and for what reasons it is meant to be taken . |
| 10 | Showmanship was not just the accidental way in which British and American films were distributed , it was the essence of a whole phenomenon and the films of the English-language world can only be understood in this way . |
| 11 | He argued against the linear view and stated that the study of history could only be understood through an intuitive understanding of spiritual destiny , rather than the material cause and effect relationship of modern science . |
| 12 | The history of company legislation over the past century can only be understood if it is seen as an attempt to rectify the imbalance and injustice resulting from the creation of limited liability in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 13 | The federal pattern of democratic revolution and the Centralista tradition can only be understood in terms of this municipal patriotism . |
| 14 | A culture can only be understood from within . |
| 15 | Scale and measure can only be understood in context . |
| 16 | The relationship between Government and Parliament can only be understood against the background of the convention of ministerial responsibility . |
| 17 | Such Marxists are arguing that whatever people may believe subjectively about their own freedom to make choices which will shape their society , the true locus of change can only be understood in terms of the objective laws of motion and requirements of the capitalist mode of production . |
| 18 | Indeed , here is a reminder that Christmas can only be understood in the light of later events , can only be discovered in all its wonderful freshness and life when we discover for ourselves that Jesus is the human face of God . |
| 19 | Social theories thus argue that freedom requires an understanding of the self and our self-understanding or identity can only be understood in relation to the practices of our society . |