Example sentences of "[adj] to understanding the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To appreciate why certain questions are currently preoccupying psychobiologists , why they favour the particular answers that are in vogue , and why they seem to have neglected , until recently , many of the issues that non-psychologists would consider central to understanding the biological bases of behaviour , a short lesson on the history of psychobiology is relevant . |
| 2 | All of these descriptions of literacy practice , which I shall deal with in more detail below , suggest that attention to the ‘ interpersonal ’ , socially-conditioned aspects of literacy is central to understanding the nature of that practice . |
| 3 | After 1977 its brief was extended to include industrial , environmental and recreational projects — a reflection of the white paper 's suggestion that economic decline was crucial to understanding the urban problem . |
| 4 | Central-local relations , in fact , are crucial to understanding the way local government works and to recognizing its role within the wider administrative system . |
| 5 | The evolutionary theory fundamental to understanding the human emergence has recently acquired a firmer basis than ever before ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 6 | Thus the conflictual , state-centric model , with its privileging of military security issues , is an essentially masculine representation , in which the separation of domestic and global politics precludes acknowledgement of the social processes constitutive of gender divisions , analysis of which is essential to understanding the role of the state — in particular its military capacity . |
| 7 | . Some aspects of all these elements of our information systems will be essential to understanding the present in the future . |
| 8 | Those , in turn , are vital to understanding the growth of employment and population in different areas of the country at different dates : for instance , the earlier growth of the Atlantic ports of Glasgow , Liverpool and Bristol , or the relative prosperity of London or Aberdeen vis-a-vis most manufacturing areas in the 1980s . |
| 9 | If we knew the answer to this question , we should be close to understanding the clinically important issue of how the expression of opsin genes is controlled . |
| 10 | This is important because it is directly relevant to understanding the mechanism of a type of eruption not yet observed at first hand by any human being , but one that would make the Mt Pelee eruption pale into insignificance if an example were to occur today . |
| 11 | Thus , while all the usual contractual rules about offer and acceptance , consideration , intention to create legal relations , illegality , mistake , misrepresentation , repudiation , breach , discharge and so forth are relevant to understanding the contractual context of the reference to the expert , those rules may also have a direct bearing on whether a decision of an expert can be enforced . |