Example sentences of "[adv] understand [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Hereafter the penicillins were studied in countless laboratories , academic and commercial , and discoveries were made which enabled them to be better understood and used as the foundation for many new drugs .
2 Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more .
3 Although there are differences in emphasis in the contributions of individual Formalists , the theoretical value of their work is best understood and appreciated as a collective effort to establish a coherent theoretical basis for literary studies .
4 There are many instances of this use of the single gesture for spinning or threading a needle and making a stitch or two which are easily understood and recognised by an audience .
5 Though not absolutely essential for a first draft version of a program , it is very important for later versions to be logically structured and easily readable so that they can be easily understood and modified by the author and others if required .
6 In time it will be both understood and accepted as a disease that is not the fault of the sufferer and from which full recovery is possible .
7 Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981a ) also looked at lag behind the speaker and though his concern was for individual comparison , a general conclusion is that the usual 2 — 3 seconds lag of the BSL interpreter behind the speaker is not sufficient for the message to be both understood and presented to the audience in a form which can be understood .
8 These should be fully understood and accepted by the subordinate ; tasks should be assigned to the subordinate who should agree to do them ;
9 The teaching of rules , which are combinations of concepts , consists mainly of assisting the student to recall those involved , ensuring that they are fully understood and combined in the right order , and in providing the opportunities in clinical practice to apply them .
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