Example sentences of "some understanding of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this latter application which has importance for modern sociology , but some understanding of the concept of the unconscious as first developed by Freud is necessary before considering its application to social institutions and society generally . |
| 2 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 3 | Bring to their writing and discussion about stories some understanding of the way stories are structured . |
| 4 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 5 | Some understanding of the way the semantic effects of selection may be independent of , and indeed may transcend , those properties of the context which are responsible for the selection can be gleaned from the following analogy . |
| 6 | Our intuitive arguments will still apply to these homoclinic orbits and give some understanding of the way in which the structure of the attractor changes . |
| 7 | We would then all be able to have some understanding of the laws that govern the universe and are responsible for our existence . |
| 8 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 9 | But if we are to be able to talk to our children about this at all , then we must have some understanding of the choices and risks they face . |
| 10 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 11 | Likewise , Le Gai Savoir , made in 1968 , was a gloss on Rousseau 's Emile ou l'éducation and propounded that ‘ the central problem of education is to provide some understanding of the sounds and images that bombard us in our everyday lives ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 20 ) . |
| 12 | I attended a fortnight 's training course at the BBC , which gave me some understanding of the part I would have to play in supervising the work of the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 13 | to give children some understanding of the part played by Christianity in the development of Western culture . |
| 14 | Where will they find the middle level if there are no youngsters around with relevant educational qualifications and some understanding of the organisation and its needs ? |
| 15 | Some understanding of the literature upon decision-making may therefore facilitate evaluation of the options considered above . |
| 16 | You would have needed something else , some understanding of the principles involved , access to formulae ant equations , a head for figures . |
| 17 | It is necessary to gain some understanding of the processes of accumulation before the significance of the small mammal faunas can be understood . |
| 18 | I think we ought to make some understanding of the sort of pressures that the man was under at the time when all this happened , and it happened very quickly . ’ |
| 19 | Much of the evidence discussed in the next few chapters will rely on EEG and other electro-physiological information , and some understanding of the basis of these measures is essential to understanding how we know what we do about sleep . |
| 20 | Thus , intergenerational expectations are created ; we say that we know what it is like to be a child ; we have some understanding of the needs , joys and sorrows of childhood ‘ from the inside ’ . |
| 21 | What you 've got to do is actually have some understanding of the needs of a of particular newspapers , radio programmes , television programmes , by studying , look at it , see what it who 's it for , what language do they use , how do they phrase things , what 's their format , and then you can get yourself in the position where you can say , ‘ I can do something like that , I can produce something like that . ’ |
| 22 | Demonstrate some understanding of the use of special lexical and grammatical effects in literary language , eg the repetition of words or structures , dialect forms , archaisms , grammatical deviance etc . |
| 23 | But we now have some understanding of the universality , or otherwise , of symbolic archetypes . |
| 24 | Most people feel that they have some understanding of the focus of disciplines like History or Physics , but are less familiar with Sociology . |
| 25 | To understand how this could be involves some understanding of the representation problem , and to decide that any given pattern of behaviour has this character of being , as one might put it , ‘ biologically discouraged ’ requires one to be able to read the historical record . |
| 26 | But although explanations of this kind provide some understanding of the class struggle , it is clear that Poulantzas does not regard them as enough . |
| 27 | The training which is offered by PGCE courses ( whether at polytechnic or university ) should be devoted to giving graduates some understanding of the nature and needs of the children with whom they are to work . |
| 28 | It is therefore still necessary for businessmen to have some understanding of the extent to which Articles 85 and 86 are capable of applying to mergers . |
| 29 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 30 | A child who has been stretched emotionally and imaginatively in fashioning a pot from a lump of clay or weaving upon a simple loom will come , through the process of doing , to learn much about himself and gain some understanding of the pain , pleasure and struggle which underpin craftsmanship . |