Example sentences of "can not be understood " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Fairlie wrote : ‘ The exercise of power in Britain ( more specifically , in England ) can not be understood unless it is recognised that it is exercised socially . ’ |
| 2 | The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , 1884 Formen is the most detailed discussion of pre-capitalist society in Marx 's mature work and it really can not be understood except as a part of the background for the more fully completed works Marx was either planning or did wrote , especially Capital . |
| 3 | As we saw , most modern anthropologists would , like Morgan , stress the corporate character of descent groups and would agree that these groups can not be understood as large families [ Fortes , 1953 ] , but they would also stress that some kind of individual domestic unit seems to normally exist in societies with descent groups . |
| 4 | But where one concludes from this that theistic terms can not be understood , the other concludes that they are the language of ‘ faith ’ , directly given to the believer by God . |
| 5 | The Scarman Report formed a part — and a vital one — of this process of political debate , but its role can not be understood in isolation . |
| 6 | These are closely interrelated and the Government 's plans for the ‘ inner cities ’ can not be understood unless seen as part of this overall enterprise . |
| 7 | They can not be understood apart . |
| 8 | Such illustrations lead to a third problem : Does the culture conditioning of God 's self-revelation mean that the Bible can not be understood by ordinary people without the help of theologically trained interpreters ? |
| 9 | Stedman Jones ' ( 1982 ) re-examination of chartism , for example , argues that its political form can not be understood as a simplistic response to the putative material experience of a class , nor can its political language be seen as an expression of that experience . |
| 10 | Consequently , whilst corporate crime can not be understood without grasping the fact that it stems from contradictions between a corporation 's goal(s) and its environment , that understanding remains one-sided if individuals are left out of the analysis . |
| 11 | It should now be clear that Buid attitudes toward peace and violence can not be understood in terms of innate psycho-biological dispositions , or in terms of their adaptation of the natural environment . |
| 12 | In the same fashion , Kant maintained , the nature of our knowledge can not be understood if we assume that it is simply fed into us from outside ourselves , and that we are merely passive recipients of information from the world around us . |
| 13 | The consequence of all this for a study of comparative industrial relations is that international differences can not be understood solely in terms of cross-sectional analysis at any one point in time . |
| 14 | A standard story , repeated by travellers and natives alike , holds that if you travel 50 miles in Britain you will encounter a different sign language that can not be understood in the region you have just left . |
| 15 | Thus it is an open system rather than a closed one and its behaviour can not be understood by simply looking at the relationship between inputs and outputs . |
| 16 | Marx 's work can not be understood in any terms other than the ones he himself developed ; but these are not spelled out , and are only indirectly expressed in his work . |
| 17 | Patterns of support between kin can not be understood without first making some reference to the ways in which the structure of the population , and patterns of family formation associated with it , have themselves changed over time . |
| 18 | This involves ‘ redrawing the boundaries of semantics/pragmatics ’ , in other words recognising that meaning can not be understood by addressing ourselves only to formal , syntactic processes : ‘ pragmatics ’ , the study of why and how utterances are used , has to be included within the study of what the utterances mean , and how their semantic load is constructed and regularised . |
| 19 | But he warns that the ideas of civil association and enterprise association can not be understood as complementary characteristics ; they each stand for an independent , self-sustaining mode of association . |
| 20 | Thus even individual choice can not be understood in isolation from the wider social structure . |
| 21 | And since that assumption is implicit in the Webbs ' criticism of Owen , it can not be understood too clearly that on their argument there can be no place at all for industrial co-operatives , properly so-called : no place , because the ownership , whether individual or collective , of an industrial co-operative rests in the people working in it . |
| 22 | The character of the Northern Region can not be understood apart from its industrial history and the same holds for the Tyneside conurbation and the two locales which are the subject of this study . |
| 23 | Further , the physical and sexual abuse of women , which the evidence shows is much more widespread than is popularly believed , can not be understood in terms of anything other than patriarchal relations . |
| 24 | It can not be understood without reference to the growing land hunger and militancy of millions of peasants . |
| 25 | First of all , health and health care are seen as political , social and ideological issues which can not be understood or tackled in isolation on a medical or technical basis . |
| 26 | When attention moves from behaviour at the individual to the organisational level , it is argued that since organisations are not unitary actors , but are made up of individuals and groups with competing interests and objectives , companies can not be understood as pursuing a single goal , but rather a range of conflicting goals . |
| 27 | Yet modern cultural institutions can not be understood exclusively in terms of the corporate market and the persistence of some earlier market forms . |
| 28 | by no means all purists identified with feminism , but the rapid growth of the women 's movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century can not be understood without reference to the purity crusades , which drew thousands of women into the political arena for the first time . |
| 29 | While not wishing to deny that there are differences in the ways executives , bureaucracies and assemblies operate compared with law courts , we suggest that the politics of any system can not be understood without some awareness of the crucial part played by law in its operations . |
| 30 | the comprehension of speech is severely impaired ; sometimes even single spoken words can not be understood even though they are correctly perceived . |