Example sentences of "[prep] be understood in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The repeated confirmation of the correlation between the physical characteristics of the stimulus and the characteristics of the neural activity it triggers , and between the characteristics of the stimulus and that of the subjective sensation , has encouraged the belief that our sensations are in some sense to be understood in terms of a set of stimulation levels ( spiking frequencies ) in the appropriate sensory pathways . |
| 2 | That privilege needs to be understood in diverse ways . |
| 3 | The rejection of the theory of hylemorphism , according to which natural phenomena and the properties of things are to be understood in terms of form and matter , is implicit in Bacon . |
| 4 | Although Descartes advocated a broadly ‘ mechanical philosophy ’ , according to which the material world was to be understood in terms of matter and motion , he was not a standard corpuscularian or atomist . |
| 5 | The world is ultimately to be understood in terms of swirlings or ‘ vortices ’ , in a matter which is identical with extension or space , not in terms of collisions of solid , impenetrable atoms moving in an otherwise empty space . |
| 6 | The phenomenon of soil erosion tends to be understood in terms of a mixture of sound and quite sophisticated ‘ engineering ’ principles which is implied in a classification of landslides and erosion , and the supernatural . |
| 7 | It enables different theories to be understood in a historical , chronological sequence , one set of theories developing from and often criticising previous work . |
| 8 | A Marxist analysis of crime is not easily explainable , and has to be understood in relation to wider aspects of Marxist theory . |
| 9 | How are such preferences to be understood in terms of underlying processes ? |
| 10 | The benefit of these reactions have to be understood in terms of life in the wild , where fighting off predators , or fleeing from them , may literally be a matter of life or death . |
| 11 | The experience of becoming a mother has to be understood in a personal and social context which takes account of predisposing factors such as poor housing , an unsupportive marriage , lack of employment and financial difficulties . |
| 12 | This in turn made it possible to consider changes in language behaviour which occurred during childhood as products of the same mechanisms which had been documented in respect of other kinds of behaviour ; verbal behaviour was to be understood in terms of the same learning principles which had been derived from studies of the behaviour of rats , pigeons and monkeys . |
| 13 | Secondly , to an analyst ( of discourse , of a kinship system ) for whom the object has structural features that enable it to be understood in relation to other , similar structural forms . |
| 14 | In brief , Locke followed Thomas Hobbes in thinking of language as something to be understood in terms of thoughts . |
| 15 | Wittgenstein , on the other hand , thought of thinking as something to be understood in terms of language ; and of the meaningfulness of a linguistic utterance as something to be understood in terms of a linguistic practice . |
| 16 | Wittgenstein , on the other hand , thought of thinking as something to be understood in terms of language ; and of the meaningfulness of a linguistic utterance as something to be understood in terms of a linguistic practice . |
| 17 | Ryle 's positive point , in his Royal Institute of philosophy lecture , that Le Penseur 's thinking is to be understood in terms of that of the tennis player , is different from Wittgenstein 's positive point , in 88 to 136 or thereabouts , but particularly in 100–103 , which might now be expressed by saying that ‘ I thought … ’ is like ‘ I meant … ’ ( see above ) , though this way of putting it is really no more than a hint as to his meaning . |
| 18 | The Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ ; God has given himself to be understood in our terms and on our level ; and even in these terms and on that level it is the reality of God that is given for us to understand . |
| 19 | This is most obvious in the case of social class-based cultures , but the more recent resurgence of Scottish and Welsh nationalism and the ‘ troubles ’ in Northern Ireland have underlined that the dynamics of regional and ‘ sub-national ’ cultures in Britain also need to be understood in the context of material inequalities and patterns of cultural domination , subordination and conflict . |
| 20 | This is true irrespective of whether the animal is able to communicate with its conspecifics — either by way of warning-cries , mating-calls , and the like , or by means of a syntactically-structured language whose meaning is determined by social conventions rather than by fixed genetic mechanisms , The point is that even much non-communicative behaviour has to be understood in computational terms , such that internal symbolic processes must be attributed to the creature . |
| 21 | If war is to be understood in these terms , any victory worthy of the name must produce the defeat of the opposing class as well as its state . |
| 22 | An important element that emerges is that discussions and explanations of physical abuse and neglect may be seen most productively as a problem relating to parenting , which in turn needs to be located in an understanding of social class and the gendered divisions of child care , while sexual abuse , to a much greater extent , needs to be understood in relation to male power and masculine socialization . |
| 23 | We would suggest that the extreme sensitivity to self that characterizes adolescents is not just a psychological phenomena , but a social one to be understood in terms of moral career . |
| 24 | They need to be understood in the context of psychoanalysis as both a method of therapy and a body of findings about how human beings act . |
| 25 | Support for these generalisations will be given as we proceed , but we should be aware that descriptions of institutional change need to be understood in the light of political and theoretical considerations . |
| 26 | " clear " is to be understood in the sense of " make smooth straight " . |
| 27 | Furthermore , such a term as " causal episode " is to be understood in a way which excludes certain assumptions or implications . |
| 28 | Somewhat less clearly put , mental episodes are to be understood in terms of their roles or functions vis-à-vis other things . |
| 29 | Other aspects of a society have to be understood in relation to that organization . |
| 30 | Urban issues are to be understood in terms of class conflicts over the character and extent of reproduction through collective consumption in the form of the provision of urban services and facilities , particularly housing . |