Example sentences of "[modal v] only be understood in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interpretation must always be a matter of matching up what is new to what is familiar : ideas can only be understood in reference to established categories of thought . |
| 2 | Violent behaviour , in the most general sense , can only be understood in association with other behaviour within the same society . |
| 3 | That is why the new partnerships can only be understood in terms of the contemporary concepts of organisational mission and vision . |
| 4 | The remarkable role he played in Russia 's development can only be understood in terms of his total immersion — intellectual , emotional , moral — in Marxism . |
| 5 | The Restoration is , perhaps , all of these things , and can only be understood in terms of the background of those who participated , the pressures for economic , social and political change and the context of the Western threat . |
| 6 | The impact of this arrival of South Asian calico can only be understood in terms of those wider social changes already referred to . |
| 7 | Russia 's response to the crisis of 1914 can only be understood in terms of the nature of the tsarist regime and of the pressures upon it . |
| 8 | The federal pattern of democratic revolution and the Centralista tradition can only be understood in terms of this municipal patriotism . |
| 9 | Such Marxists are arguing that whatever people may believe subjectively about their own freedom to make choices which will shape their society , the true locus of change can only be understood in terms of the objective laws of motion and requirements of the capitalist mode of production . |
| 10 | Pizzorno argues that the modern underdevelopment of the south of Italy can only be understood in terms of the historical relationship of area to the locations of power and productivity by which it has been dominated and to which it has been marginal . |
| 11 | In organisational theory Pfeffer ( 1981 ) argues that power is a relational concept that can only be understood in terms of interactions between individuals and groups . |
| 12 | Social theories thus argue that freedom requires an understanding of the self and our self-understanding or identity can only be understood in relation to the practices of our society . |
| 13 | Scale and measure can only be understood in context . |
| 14 | As Graff argues , literacy can only be understood in context : ‘ it can be established neither arbitrarily nor uniformly for all members of the population ’ ( 1979 , p. 292 ) . |