Example sentences of "[coord] understand [art] " in BNC.

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1 This may simply mean a better understanding of historical sites , including those abroad in this age of mass foreign travel ; it may lead to active participation of an archaeological nature ; it may mean a better guide by which to judge or understand the paperback or so-called " historical novel " or the historical play on television .
2 In acknowledging other people 's active status , by finding out about them and their personal lives through informal socialising regardless of overt status , it 's possible to learn and understand a great deal .
3 Get Ready ! teaches pupils to say and understand a basic English vocabulary and a small number of useful expressions .
4 Watson also deserves credit for lifting the veil from Braidwood 's secret teaching methods by publishing after Braidwood 's death in 1806 a book entitled The Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb : or a theoretical and practical view of the means by which they are taught to speak and understand a language , which made the early technique of such teaching in this country public knowledge .
5 You will not be unconscious at all , but will be able to hear and understand every word that is said .
6 Yes , at all times you will hear and understand every word .
7 But , most significant of all , she was able to hear and understand every word which was spoken .
8 Matters can be most easily be sorted out for you on the spot whilst you are in resort , when your Representative , who is authorised to deal fully with any complaint , can see and understand the exact nature of any problems you have .
9 To know and understand the people among whom he lives is his way of travelling .
10 First , if specific librarians and information scientists are unable or unwilling ( or both ) to learn about and understand the detailed situations within which the information that they handle will eventually be used , then they should restrict themselves to the more general situation-independent value-adding processes .
11 In a section , ‘ Classifying management characteristics ’ , in a recent report concerned with the future of management education and training , one needed skill , alongside financial , marketing , planning etc. skills , appears as ‘ Information technology skills ’ , but with the single by-line : ‘ How to acquire , select and understand the information one needs ’ [ Barham , Fraser & Heath ( 1988 ) , p 42 ] .
12 Thus , to raise the potential value of the information being processed using activities beyond Taylor 's Stage 1 ( i.e. those in his Stage 2 ( analysing processes ) , or his Stage 3 ( judgemental processes ) , or his Stage 4 ( decision processes ) ) , the people involved must know and understand the detailed decision-making situation wherein the information will eventually be used .
13 Thus , at the global scale , the International Council of Scientific Unions ( ICSU ) has endorsed the setting up of the International Geosphere Biosphere Project ( IGBP ) to ‘ describe and understand the interactive physical , chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system , the unique environment it provides for life , the changes that are occurring in that system and the manner by which these changes are influenced by human actions ’ ( Report of ad hoc Planning Group for IGBP 1986 , quoted in IGBP 1988 ) .
14 However , before dealing with such topics as the foreign exchange market , euro-currency markets and international agencies it is necessary to examine and understand the economic/financial problems faced by lesser developed countries .
15 Few headteachers , let alone governors and teaching staff in schools , will have come across many of the local-authority service departments mentioned above and hence may often find it difficult to appreciate and understand the outcomes of their systems and policy-implementation decisions .
16 Can a cleaner on the shopfloor really be expected to know and understand the complex set of aims that a major corporation sets itself ?
17 The role of the professional is to listen and understand the parents ' views , aims , and expectations and to provide the parents with a range of suitable options and the necessary information from which to select .
18 To teach effectively ( whether it be in the backstreets of Birmingham , in the gentility of Bath or the quietness of Beaumaris ) the teacher must come to appreciate and understand the lifestyle of the children in his or her care .
19 Realism aims to ‘ detect and understand the forces that determine political relations among nations , and to comprehend the ways in which these forces act upon each other and upon international political relations ’ .
20 During her studies in psychology and education , she encountered the work of Piaget , and discovered the fascination of trying to study and understand the development of children 's minds .
21 There 's absolutely not doubt in my mind that , my mind that a child born erm with a special background will be treated , and feel special about it and will appreciate and understand the the erm the background of the case and and the miseries of th their parents have gone through in orve , in order to have a child .
22 And one of the things that archaeologists do all their time is try by looking at the evidence , whether it 's stuff that comes from the ground , landscapes or old buildings , to try and understand the changes that have happened through time , to see things that were there that have gone , and to work out what
23 The penalty one pays for this is that you never really get to learn and understand the basics behind simple design .
24 In any attempt to assess and understand the use and function , the economic and social benefits of community languages in the restricted domains of the work place and in the public services i.e. outside the domain of the household , it seems imperative that one look at the sociolinguistic and socioeconomic profiles of the different speech communities and the uses they can and do put their languages to .
25 The term ‘ self-negotiated ’ can , however , also cause confusion , particularly in language teaching where students see their measure of success in their ability to speak and understand the target language and the progress they make in one particular course book .
26 Since subjects are instructed to read and understand the passage , the varying times which elapse between presentation of one part of a passage and the subject 's pressing of the button give an indication of the amount of time needed to comprehend that part of the passage .
27 Somehow these hints of vulnerability seemed to make her more attractive still , more likely to accept and understand the needs and fallibilities of others .
28 Like the siting of settlements , attempts to examine and understand the patterns , and the distribution of settlements across the landscape , have traditionally been the preserve of geographers .
29 The selection rules that govern the intensities of valence electronic transitions are derived from the quantum mechanical equations that are used to formalize and understand the processes involved .
30 The travel industry is a diverse and dynamic one and it is essential that the programme produces competent , versatile people who react positively to change and understand the forces which bring it about .
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