Example sentences of "[is] [prep] be understood as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the alliance is to be understood as a means to that end , it was also an announcement that the kleindeutsch solution of the German problem had come to stay ; the Habsburgs had no more to fear from Prussia and the corpses of Königgrätz were buried at last . |
| 2 | And that is why democracy is to be understood as a practice before it is conceived as a set of abstractions ; why it is a system of checks and balances before it is a set of principles ; why , as has been said , it is worth just two cheers , and no more . |
| 3 | The discriminating of something within consciousness is to be understood as a case of remembering . |
| 4 | Leisure is to be understood as the ability to absent oneself from work . |
| 5 | Put this way , the socialist alternative is to be understood as the antithesis of capitalism , but such an understanding is hardly prescriptive of a specific form of social and economic organization . |
| 6 | In his discussion of the problem in ‘ Mourning and Melancholia ’ Freud offers the initial hypothesis that mania is to be understood as a state in which the ego appears to have got over its loss of the object with the consequence that the instinctual drives previously fixated on it are now liberated — giving rise to the boundless energy and enthusiasm of the manic condition . |