Example sentences of "we understand the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How shall we understand the term " message " as applied to language ? |
| 2 | How should we understand the state , its relationships both to society and to individuals ? |
| 3 | The dual source of the state 's role in hegemony helps us understand the limitations of the state in respect of the alliance whose power it also represents . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One was a search for proof of the existence of antimatter , the other an attempt to identify different kinds of high energy particles ‘ to help us understand the changes in our own Galaxy ’ . |
| 6 | Understanding individuals in the context of their past can help us understand the present-day person . |
| 7 | Counterintuitive though this may seem , AI might help us understand the perceptual experiences of kingfishers as well as kings . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity . |
| 10 | This helps us understand the orders to destroy the Canaanite nations at the conquest . |
| 11 | The sacrifices themselves have disappeared , but they go far to help us understand the meaning of the cross , the sacrifice of Jesus Christ . |
| 12 | The principal focus of long-wave theories is historical , offering a framework for conceiving the movement of economies over time so that , if they help us understand the modern UK economy , they do so by locating the present in a pattern that covers the past and the future . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The workplace became the main interface between these economic and political pressures and the members of linguistic minorities … the role of language in the workplace is a crucial factor in helping us understand the relations of production in which members of linguistic minorities are involved . |
| 15 | It also helps us understand the ethnocentric and ruling-class view of much conservative criminology . |
| 16 | My position will be not only that the model of perfect competition fails to help us understand the market process , but that the models of imperfect competition developed to replace it are little more helpful . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It did not generate a framework that would help us understand the nature of continuity and change in Britain . |
| 19 | What then , are the significant features of British history that help us understand the contemporary political system and the political culture . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Which also help us understand the kind of comedy altogether , erm that . |