Example sentences of "help [pron] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's easy to look at these young hooligans on the street , as they are perceived by so many , without understanding why they are like it , and I think it would help everyone to understand , and maybe we could have some action to work towards supplying the need for these youngsters , because I belief if something could be done for them when they 're sixteen and just starting out on this erm sort of sub-culture life that they get into so quickly , if people could give them maximum help at this stage then they could grow into being responsible erm satisfied adults . |
| 2 | ‘ Dorothy , I do n't know quite how to put this , but is there something you 're not telling me that might help me understand this a bit better . |
| 3 | In coping with their depression they will also have gained insights that will help them to understand other people better and be more able to offer acceptable sympathy and help . |
| 4 | Such thoughts should help them to understand how attitudes , right or wrong , can persist unchanged for endless generations if they are taught to be dictated by unassailable imaginary ‘ gods ’ who are never ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ The sense of outrage that some of those MPs would feel at such intrusiveness might help them to understand current feelings in certain sectors of education , ’ he said . |
| 6 | MAYBE IT WILL HELP THEM UNDERSTAND … |
| 7 | It 's wonderful , is n't it , when trades have trade papers that can help them understand what is really going on in the world . |
| 8 | It seems that the children have been too easily persuaded to sell their land and houses , for what matters in a drama like this is not that the children should act out what actually happened in real life , but that it should open up and help them understand the dilemmas of industrialisation . |
| 9 | I hope my decision to pay tax will help you understand that I accept I must be accountable to those I serve . |
| 10 | A visit to a different universe — one that might help you understand what I 'm getting at ? ’ |
| 11 | Your solicitor can help you understand the advantages in the Single Market programme . |
| 12 | So if you do n't know the difference between a fork and a desperado , we hope our brief guide below will help you understand some of terms you are likely to hear in the coming weeks . |
| 13 | This will give you valuable insights into the kinds of skills and attitudes that young people bring with them to work and help you to understand how their needs and interests can contribute positively to the work place . |
| 14 | We will also help you to understand your own body so that you begin to know what your actual dietary requirements are . |
| 15 | ‘ The man I 'm going to send you to see will help you to understand it , to cope with it and to get over it . |
| 16 | Thank you for your fax of the 26th October , and whilst I fully appreciate your views and the reasons which prompted you to write , I would like to make one or two points which may help you to understand our position . |
| 17 | What she needed was just one person , one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her to understand the meaning of this extraordinary happening . |
| 18 | Sure enough Jay at ten past three in the morning flits down the stairs of the crumbling house in her pomegranate kimono , mad woman in search of photo , as if a photo could help her understand . |
| 19 | Zen lowered the receiver and stared at it , as though its expression might help him understand the words it was uttering . |
| 20 | This book is based on that conviction ; it has the crucial implication that understanding how one kind of animal develops will help us understand the development of all the others . |
| 21 | Understanding individuals in the context of their past can help us understand the present-day person . |
| 22 | Counterintuitive though this may seem , AI might help us understand the perceptual experiences of kingfishers as well as kings . |
| 23 | How do they help us understand developments in the media ? |
| 24 | Two answers may be given : first , just as they illuminate many other areas of social life , the methods and findings of our rivals may help us understand the work of the professions ( to illustrate this , some of my examples will be drawn from medical novels ; no doubt legal novels will be equally instructive ) ; second , it is not clear how far we can go in understanding other occupations ' behaviour unless we grasp that of our own . |
| 25 | This point can help us understand the contradictions within recorded popular music : the fact that there is no simple return to oral techniques ; that the record form carries a vast range of content types ( including ‘ literate ’ ballads related to bourgeois traditions ) ; that production methods also differ widely , often using written components as well as ‘ oral ’ techniques ; that the modern recording studio is actually more suited to producing precisely synchronized rhythms and textures , and complex structural processes , than is notation ( as well as being suited also to other things ) . |
| 26 | As a definition , this has its flaws but it can still help us understand better what health care should be about and enables us to work at improving health care provision . |
| 27 | These observations , like chemical gastritis , might also help us understand the low specificity of our tests , especially in patients treated with NSAID , who have a low prevalence of H pylori . |
| 28 | example An essay showing that the linguistic theory of Conversational Analysis can help us understand how characters in Conrad 's novels control each other through the ways they interact in speech . |
| 29 | It did not generate a framework that would help us understand the nature of continuity and change in Britain . |
| 30 | Professor Bruce Ponder , of the CRC Human Cancer Genetics Group at Cambridge and chairman of the committee which co-ordinated the study , said : ‘ This is another piece in the jigsaw which will help us understand the biology of two cancers which currently affect tens of thousands of women in this country and claim the lives of 20,000 every year . ’ |