Example sentences of "[prep] understanding the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a historical focus is appropriate for understanding the meaning of attitudes , for the rhetorical context of attitudes is also a historical context . |
| 2 | After World War II , progress was made towards understanding the nature of viruses , the mechanisms by which viral infections were rendered harmless , and discovering suitable virus strains from which vaccines could be made . |
| 3 | As Coward says , ‘ the problem is that of understanding the position of women as a sex without presuming that being a sex entails forms of natural behaviour and position ’ ( 1983 : 3 ) . |
| 4 | I see this change in direction as a development and broadening of the experience of understanding the history of women . |
| 5 | None the less , for the purposes of understanding the development of landforms associated with volcanism and intrusive igneous activity , we need to appreciate a few key properties of igneous rocks . |
| 6 | If it is to have empirical consequences it must rule out many other ways of understanding the pattern of metaphors . |
| 7 | Despite the problems of understanding the meaning of actions from our observations , this perspective is particularly relevant when behavioural change is sought and discussions of this kind abound in the literature of treatment and therapy . |
| 8 | This is an excellent method of understanding the contexts of situations and its meaning for those involved , even though one can never truly be a participant observer . |
| 9 | The planning department 's scanning of business information could duplicate that done by the business units but it was found that the planners were more concerned with understanding the structure of industries and markets rather than with more detailed facts . |
| 10 | The concept of international power demarcates international politics as an autonomous sphere of action , and implies that ethical considerations are of little use in understanding the actions of states : |
| 11 | In point of fact , he showed far less difficulty in grappling with the mysteries of electronics than he did in understanding the concept of rappers and street cred , and the multi-racial society , although he experienced no difficulty whatsoever with the problems of racial discrimination . |
| 12 | Chapter 9 will be devoted almost entirely to the general question of how active a role should be ascribed to consumers in understanding the meaning of goods in social relations today , and the nature of goods as material culture . |
| 13 | While a great deal has been discovered about the physiology of sleep , and psychologists have developed reliable techniques for establishing when people are likely to be dreaming , there has not been an equivalent amount of progress in understanding the nature of dreams . |
| 14 | They are interested in understanding the pattern of events and ideas ; what things have in common as much as what makes them different . |
| 15 | This is useful in understanding the working of social and other service systems and is particularly helpful in understanding the place of services within a child 's care career . |
| 16 | We need to get back to understanding the purpose of communities . |
| 17 | In this way the study diverges from the usual tradition of elite studies where emphasis has been placed on ideological response or constituency service as the key to understanding the adoption of attitudes in such an elite . |
| 18 | What we need to know most of all is how recognising the raised dot patterns of Braille by touch relates to understanding the meaning of sentences and the ‘ gist ’ of a passage of text . |
| 19 | We know this , firstly , because KC was perfect at understanding the meanings of words spoken to him ( as tested by word-to-picture matching ) and , secondly , because KC always knew whether his attempt at a repetition was right or wrong . |