Example sentences of "well understood " in BNC.
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| 1 | This risk to promotion chances is well understood and can be clearly illustrated . |
| 2 | And although always implied rather than broadcast , this rejection of intellectualism is so well understood throughout the service that it has even affected those to whom Bramshill scholarships to University have been offered , and many turn them down . |
| 3 | For who inside the system needs to be told what is well understood ? |
| 4 | Yet plutonium has been intensively studied , is well understood , and it decays away into harmlessness with a half-life of about 240,000 years . |
| 5 | After World War II the Crown in Parliament of the United Kingdom well understood that it could no longer govern the King Emperor 's non-British , any more than his British subjects who were not represented , and could not be represented , in Parliament . |
| 6 | How the wind affects the ocean and modifies the heat exchanged with the atmosphere is not well understood , but is of paramount importance to weather forecasters who can not wait for ERS-1 to begin operations . |
| 7 | While the human eye is extraordinarily good at doing this , the process by which it does so is not well understood and hence can be only imperfectly imitated . |
| 8 | At the beginning of Genesis that was well understood . |
| 9 | Here he says that of all cases of hypertrophy of the external genitalia in women , physicians are most frequently consulted regarding the nymphae ( the inner labia ) and the clitoris , and that the causes of this condition , though not well understood , might be due to ‘ masturbation , excessive venery , or even the rubbing incident to a pruritis ’ . |
| 10 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 11 | Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy . |
| 12 | This comes as a great shock to me because it is well understood that anyone who does not like Erich Kleiber 's conducting must be a Nazi ! ’ |
| 13 | There were dangers in this silence — Wilson well understood that the steady remittance of funds for the care of Oreste constituted a claim on him over and above that of natural parentage — but she thought them worth risking . |
| 14 | The nature of the cellular changes responsible for tissue differentiation are not well understood , but at the cellular level they do qualify as hereditary changes : each kind of cell gives rise to its own kind at cell division . |
| 15 | The reason is fairly well understood . |
| 16 | The nature of these changes is less well understood than of those that occur in bacteria adapting to new chemical environments . |
| 17 | The nature of this impulse is rather well understood . |
| 18 | Certainly Unix has many attractive features : it is powerful , well understood , and you can get it with fancy Windows-type graphical user interfaces . |
| 19 | long term effects of addition of microorganisms and/or nutrients to the subsurface are not well understood . |
| 20 | They added it , I should have known , to try and get a younger audience and it was n't well understood by the people who wrote it . |
| 21 | And they , knowing me to be one not prone to exaggerated statements , well understood that something of an extraordinary nature was impending . |
| 22 | Some of these events are still not well understood ; although Hare and Macfarlane have done much to bring the most important medical discovery of this century into proper perspective . |
| 23 | We are reluctant to open our hearts to God and to receive his word within our hearts , and this is well understood by the Bible 's writers . |
| 24 | In University libraries this is well understood , and there are often systems that allow the librarian to know when a book is not on its shelf because it is being used in the library . |
| 25 | Very much less well understood is how the genes control embryonic development . |
| 26 | The mechanism whereby the somites develop is still not well understood . |
| 27 | In a complex mixture , whose chemistry is well understood , the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction can occur . |
| 28 | It would be quite impossible to discuss all the plates and sub-plates making up the Earth 's crust in this book , and it would n't be very useful either , since some of them are extremely complex and not at all well understood . |
| 29 | She nourishes a secret , unrequited love for Headstone , which is very well understood by her favourite pupil , Mary-Anne . |
| 30 | There was a well understood code of honour in these matters and guests invariably responded nobly . |