Example sentences of "' understanding [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure Harlequins ' Troy Coker makes an invaluable contribution to the other players ' understanding of the game . |
| 2 | The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively , in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 3 | The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 4 | The development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 5 | 1.8 The three profile components we recommend are as follows : • speaking and listening — with one attainment target : the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose . |
| 6 | Teachers ' understanding of industry will influence their attitudes towards it , and the attitudes of their students . |
| 7 | This provides experience of applying computing solutions in an organization and deepens students ' understanding of the theoretical parts of the course . |
| 8 | Teacher-student interaction is present and the actual carrying out of an online search increases the students ' understanding of the concepts of information retrieval . |
| 9 | It is clear that computer designers need the chemists ' understanding of the physical and chemical properties of silicon and the III-Vs and the rules under which they seem to operate at the atomic and molecular levels . |
| 10 | He questioned the new Clause 's sponsors ' understanding of what was ‘ normal ’ , and for good measure said that when he had visited the Soviet Union he had not liked it — there were no sex shops , a lot of censorship , and they denied that homosexuals existed . |
| 11 | He has introduced training programmes in conjunction with such august management institutions as Ashridge Management College to broaden the scope of partners ' understanding of the outside business world . |
| 12 | He argues — irrefutably , I believe , despite his oversimplification of Latin theology — that the early fathers ' understanding of God 's war with the Devil was obscured by rejigging the drama of what I have called the Great Battle into a legalistic rational framework . |
| 13 | speaking and listening — with one attainment target ; the development of pupils ' understanding of the spoken word and the capacity to express themselves effectively in a variety of speaking and listening activities , matching style and response to audience and purpose ; |
| 14 | This level continues the programme of revision and extension in Headway Intermediate , but aims to extend the students ' understanding of English grammar by dealing with more complex tenses and language points such as the perfect tenses and idioms . |
| 15 | Each reader includes a glossary of new words and exercises to extend students ' understanding of the text . |
| 16 | In the face of even further diversion of financial resources for training away from special needs , can we build on what expertise we have to find economic and yet effective ways to overcome the present difficulties , to deepen all teachers ' understanding of learning and behaviour problems and of the way in which they might be resolved within the learning situation of the classroom ? |
| 17 | The magnitude of the special needs post-holder 's task becomes clear if one considers that these skills are to be geared to assisting classroom teachers of varying lengths of career experience ( often considerably longer than that of the ‘ qualified ’ supporter ) and range of subject specialities ( beyond the supporter 's expertise ) — teachers already under pressure from many directions and with ambivalent feelings about ‘ hawing problems ’ and ‘ being seen as in need of help ’ ; and if one considers that the supporter 's extended task is to deepen these colleagues ' understanding of ‘ special ’ learning needs , to enhance their skills , discover and develop their strengths and the confidence that the professional know.how they possess can be summoned for responding more appropriately to most of the behavioural , emotional and learning difficulties they encounter . |
| 18 | to deepen teachers ' understanding of individual needs |
| 19 | To achieve the twofold aims of consultation — deepening teachers ' understanding of any pupil 's special needs , and enhancing their ability to meet them — the consultative role has been geared as outlined to : |
| 20 | The programme also aims to broaden Christian communicators ' understanding of ‘ development ’ , which embraces not only food , clothing , shelter and employment , but also culture , ethnicity and religion . |
| 21 | It has been found that there has been a significant increase in the villagers ' understanding of all aspects of the disease . |
| 22 | It is not the same sort of task as that of the natural scientist in search of hidden causes , because the context of action can not be divorced from the actors ' understanding of the context . |
| 23 | They say their results show there is still work to be done on professionals ' understanding of the concept of collaboration , as nurses and physicians did not agree on the amount taking place . |
| 24 | When the perceptual salience to the child of the class and subclasses is manipulated , as in some of McGarrigle 's experiments ( McGarrigle , Grieve and Hughes , 1978 ) , then four-year-olds ' understanding of the referring expressions in the adult 's questions improves . |
| 25 | Innovations in teaching methods do not usually come in the form of simple additions to a teacher 's repertoire , generalizable to all subject matters , but are usually designed to achieve more effectively an understanding of some particular X. Usually , for a variety of reasons , the descriptions of ‘ how to proceed ’ are not at a level of precision which makes the teacher a programmed automaton ; it follows that any teacher persuaded to adopt the innovation must be willing and able to explore modifications to his repertoire in order to try and achieve the hoped-for improvement in his pupils ' understanding of X at which the innovation is aimed . |
| 26 | It is clear , however , that oral interaction can be a means whereby teachers may probe pupils ' understanding of various aspects of mathematics . |
| 27 | The success rate appeared to depend mainly on the pupils ' understanding of the figures involved . |
| 28 | There were two tests of number concepts which looked at pupils ' understanding of whole number and decimal place value , the number line , and some aspects of fractions . |
| 29 | This is likely to apply particularly to concepts , which can be understood on a number of levels , while skills are generally easier to specify as they are procedures carried out in practice and are therefore more " visible " , whereas pupils ' understanding of concepts and strategies can only be inferred from behaviour . |
| 30 | Care is , however , needed to ensure that decimals have to be dealt with : a version of the same task with 4 m 10 cm and 4 m 20 cm ( success rate 68 per cent ) is unlikely to test pupils ' understanding of decimals since many will deal just with the centimetres a whole number task . |