Example sentences of "[pers pn] be understood " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broad categories of tasks which are required to support them are understood . |
| 2 | The important point to bear in mind is — can you be understood ? |
| 3 | 30.0 She is understood to have a nine-year-old daughter and worked with her sister at Neill 's newsagent shop in the Co Antrim village . |
| 4 | She is understood to have become ill at a party after unknowingly taking the illegal drug . |
| 5 | Woodcuts would have been an interesting addition to Leapor 's second volume , and in themselves would serve as evidence on how she was understood by her contemporaries . |
| 6 | And part of the reason of course the dialect is gone is that we unconsciously sort of translate what we 're going to say into good English so that we 're understood . |
| 7 | Would we be understood ? |
| 8 | In contrast , the portrait of Ahmed has none of the disdain which could be observed in the writer 's article about Michael X. Ahmed 's bluffs are called , but they are understood , and carefully related to his earlier life on the island . |
| 9 | Other noxious substances may be very good drugs too if they are understood and properly used . |
| 10 | Communication is an activity in which there is a sharing of thoughts , ideas , information , feelings , so that they are understood . |
| 11 | The attitudes of and between parents begin to impress themselves on it simply because they are parental attitudes , not because they are understood . |
| 12 | The phenomenon of certain mundane objects becoming so firmly associated with an individual that they are understood as literal extensions of that individual 's being was discussed in some detail by Levy-Bruhl ( 1966 : 100–27 ) . |
| 13 | Anaphors are common in both spoken and written language and a theory of text comprehension must explain how they are understood . |
| 14 | They are understood by the ability of the imagination ( Rachel 's servant , Bilhah ) to relate these emotions to anticipation of the joys of heaven and pains of hell , and helped by the practice of self-discipline , abstinence and patience in the desires of sensuality ( Zilpah , Leah 's servant ) . |
| 15 | And if they are not taken in their usual sense , how should they be understood ? |
| 16 | They were understood also to have considered Iraqi objections to a proposal to export oil through Turkey [ see p. 38548 ] , with a pipeline fee of US$264,000,000 to be paid directly to the Turkish company , Botas , from the UN 's planned escrow account . |
| 17 | Although no details of the fraudulent operations were provided , they were understood to have involved the diversion of public and private funds , which had been converted into foreign exchange for approved imports , into bank accounts abroad . |
| 18 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 19 | Hong Kong 's decision to free him is understood to have been made after talks involving the governor , Sir David Wilson , and the territory 's political adviser , William Ehrman . |
| 20 | Can it be understood , explained , predicted ? |
| 21 | The United States began consultations with friendly powers in October letting it be understood that a UN temporary commission would be proposed , charged with supervising elections and reporting back to the UN Security Council and General Assembly at Lake Success . |
| 22 | STV propagandists let it be understood that each major party will put up a candidate for every seat . |
| 23 | When the parties are evenly balanced in the Commons or when the Government has to depend for support upon minority parties , the Prime Minister may well let it be understood that he will not resign or call an election on an adverse vote in the Commons except on an explicit issue of confidence . |
| 24 | ‘ Let it be understood that I was not mad with you , ’ he said as a bleak expression crept into his eyes . |
| 25 | Officials let it be understood that Turkey would not object to Kurdish autonomy in a federal Iraq , but Özal , interviewed on March 29 , said that the Kurdish leaders " were clearly told they should definitely not consider a separate state " . |
| 26 | It believes that everything in the world is related to everything else in such an intimate way that only the whole is , can be said to be real , and only by seeing everything in its associated network of the whole to which it belongs , of the complete whole to which it belongs , can it be understood . |
| 27 | We must build and restore and this is possible even now , if only it were understood that the former dependence of museums on the resources of a criminal state was an abomination which there would be no shame in abandoning . |
| 28 | Until the Uprising even the PLO leadership — albeit with a great deal of hesitation — was ready to accept the formula of a joint Jordanian and Palestinian delegation , it being understood that the Palestinian component , even though not PLO leaders themselves , would be a genuine and equal partner with the Jordanians . |
| 29 | The 1930 Act gave the Education Minister power to nominate up to a quarter of the membership of Education Committees in Northern Ireland ( it being understood that the nominees would be clergymen ) ; regulated the membership of School Management Committees ; and required local education authorities to provide Bible instruction in any school if the parents of ten or more children demanded it . |
| 30 | But meanwhile this is the supposition on which we proceed ; we assume that there is only one price in the market at one and the same time ; it being understood that separate allowance is made , when necessary , for differences in the expense of delivering goods to dealers in different parts of the market ; including allowance for the special expenses of retailing , if it is a retail market . |