Example sentences of "understanding [prep] how the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It horrified the Council 's more conservative wing for , despite all protestations that it was complementary to and not contradictory of Vatican I 's teaching on papal primacy , it did inevitably suggest a remarkably different overall understanding of how the Church should be governed . |
| 2 | They have been suggested by people 's changing needs and growing understanding of how the gospel can be worked out in human society . |
| 3 | The trip was part of the team 's continuing training programme and enabled the members to get a better understanding of how the heliport 's safety services operate in the event of an emergency . |
| 4 | Given the Opposition 's desire to give increasing powers to the European Parliament and their lack of understanding of how the Council of Ministers works , we should perhaps excuse the lack of appreciation of the process . |
| 5 | We can gain a further understanding of how the size of the polymer chain affects the magnitude of ΔS M and why it differs from ( equation 8.7 ) , by recasting equation ( 8.22 ) in the following way . |
| 6 | Skilled maintenance engineers , apart from using test procedures and maintenance manuals , use their intuition or heuristics and an understanding of how the system works to solve problems . |
| 7 | Instead , they choose symbols to represent the problem concepts ( knowledge ) i.e. an understanding of how the system works , and then apply various techniques and heuristics ( rules of thumb ) to manipulate this knowledge ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 8 | Until policy analysis in central government improved , with a clearer understanding of how the system worked and a reduction of the ideological content of financial strategy , there would be no improvement in central-local relations , the book states . |
| 9 | an understanding of how the system/component works and its relation with the outside world ( ‘ narrow domain ’ ) ; |
| 10 | an intuitive understanding of how the system/component will behave when a certain sub-system(s) failed ; |
| 11 | But a more characteristic evangelical understanding of how the slave trade abrogated God 's good order stressed the interposition by trader and slaveholder of a harsh human power between God and some of His creatures . |
| 12 | For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump . |
| 13 | The design of the man-machine interface must develop from an understanding of how the man is expected to interact with the machine and correspondingly the design of selection , allocation and training schemes depends on knowing what is required of the operator . |
| 14 | Prof Robert Huber , winner of the 1988 Nobel prize for chemistry , told the meeting that experimental drugs had arisen from new understanding of how the leech prevents its meal from coagulating with a substance called hirudin . |
| 15 | Hans Hartmann , oceanographer with the Aquatic resources Conservation Group in Seattle , however , said that scientific studies had been misdirected insofar as they had concentrated on how much of a commercial species can be taken out of the sea , rather than understanding of how the sea itself works . |
| 16 | Much of this story will necessarily be unfamiliar to them but it may offer some understanding of how the work of God here has developed and of what there is that is worthwhile in the legacy of the past . |
| 17 | The main aims will be to : ( a ) identify particular commercial/legal problems of such magnitude as to cause the investor to withdraw or adjust its terms , including the price , either directly or indirectly through indemnities ; ( b ) flush out any unknown or understated liabilities and ensure the vendor will deliver good title ( free from encumbrances ) to the assets ; ( c ) ascertain more precisely the worth of the target business to the buyer and to provide an effective means of valuing the shares or the assets ; and ( d ) provide a clear understanding of how the business functions , including the operation of its financial and management systems . |
| 18 | There was increasing recognition of the complexity of the causes of poverty and increased understanding of how the economy functioned . |
| 19 | His great literary achievement is to have found images and structures to convey theologically understood experience and to articulate with luminous clarity an understanding of how the Incarnation reveals a pattern in which all modes of human fulfilment are subsumed . |
| 20 | Success in a computing career has particular prerequisites : knowledge of computing principles ( these change only slowly ) , understanding of how the power of computers can be exploited ( this is continually changing ) , and skill in using hardware and software to achieve organizational goals . |
| 21 | Since our culture places high value on thought which is abstract and independent , we need to gain a better understanding of how the transition is made from the embedded thought of the preschool child , to the disembedded thought of older children and adults — a process which is far from easy . |
| 22 | I , I take My Noble Friend 's point indeed , but I think nonetheless er that er I have to say that there is a degree that we put it this way of understanding of how the process works rather more informally than the manner in which my Noble Friend has put it . |
| 23 | As a new member of the organization I will have to reconcile the expectations of others , including the systems imposed on me , with my own theories and understanding of how the world works . |
| 24 | This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above . |
| 25 | Whilst working alone the craftsman also has no real need to describe or control the process elements , as he contains , in his head , the understanding of how the design is intended to work and the necessary stages to make this a reality . |
| 26 | an understanding of how the system/machine works . |
| 27 | From the outset , in this model , technological insights interact with perceptions of market needs and cost-benefit analyses to generate and maintain a clear understanding of how the innovation can be profitably introduced . |