Example sentences of "as it [be] understand " in BNC.
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1 | But an obligation to obey the law as it is understood in political writings today is a mere prima facie obligation . |
2 | Pile weaving as it is understood today was probably brought into India during the Mogul conquest in the 16th century ( although the native Indian textile tradition is much older ) and was profoundly influenced by Persian culture , art and design . |
3 | ‘ The contract between mortgagor and mortgagee , as it is understood in this court , makes the mortgage a security , not only for principal and interest , and such ordinary charges and expenses as are usually provided for by the instrument creating the security , but also for the costs properly incident to a suit for foreclosure or redemption . |
4 | On the one hand it would be perfectly in order to write the biography of a poet as long as it is understood that it would be ‘ on a par with biographies of generals and inventors ’ ( Tomashevsky 1978 : 55 ) and was not mistaken for literary science . |
5 | His first priority will be to find players as it is understood that several of last season 's side want to leave . |
6 | It is as important to clarify the ethical judgments being made as it is to understand the basis for technical decisions . |
7 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
8 | They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century . |
9 | But the anti-clerical and anti-hierarchical sentiments , unless they undermined the faith and declared doctrine ( so far as it was understood ) , were not in themselves heretical . |
10 | For the Elizabethan magus John Dee ( 1527–1608 ) , it was as imperative to study the specific characteristics of everything in nature as it was to understand the controlling influence of the stars . |