Example sentences of "as we understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a thousand pities that the writ of praemunire which Henry VIII used against Wolsey etc. was no longer available to prevent them ; for despite the fair-seeming terminology of Human Rights , the result is incompatible with the elementary principles of justice and of democracy as we understand them . |
| 2 | As we understand it , he will live what you must admit is an … unnatural life ? until he reaches maturity . |
| 3 | The structure and patterns of spoken language are distinct from those of writing : it is rare , for example , for a speaker continuously to use complete sentences as we understand them in writing — particularly in a situation where interruption is both accepted and expected . |
| 4 | God , said Dionysius , is not only above our notions of goodness but he is above ‘ God ’ himself as we understand him . |
| 5 | It was obviously different from the religion of Jesus , as far as we understand it , and also from the Jewish vision of St Paul , who had been the first to bring the semitic faith to the hellenistic world of the Roman empire . |
| 6 | It is important to realise that the Gospel writers were not writing history as we understand it . |
| 7 | I have tried to present a society where aggressive behaviour as we understand it — however loosely defined — is not much in evidence . |
| 8 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 9 | Prime Computer Inc 's Framingham , Massachusetts-based PrimeService Inc — soon , as we understand it , to be part of a new quoted company called Computervision Corp — has launched Connection NetWare for Sparc , which it describes as an open architecture version of Novell Inc 's NetWare operating system running under Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunOS version of Unix . |
| 10 | As we have seen and as we understand , the theoretical and practical consequences are not so innocent . |
| 11 | Rommetveit quotes Hilary Putnam as saying ‘ we can not know ourselves as we understand hydrogen ’ ( ibid. ) ; linguistics , in contrast , must always take into account contextuality . |
| 12 | The common law never developed mechanisms for appeals as we understand them today , and all appellate powers are statutory in origin . |
| 13 | In the ancient world , the processes of human procreation were not understood as we understand them today . |
| 14 | Our efforts to meet the company have so far been unsuccessful , but as far as we understand from the AEU ( which has a single union agreement with Montupet ) , there are no special mechanisms to target recruitment and training on the unemployed and it is worth bearing in mind that the code of practice of the new Fair Employment Act puts the idea of the merit principle above that of equality of outcome or the achievement of social justice . |
| 15 | But biblical writers use similar phrases in contexts where it is clear they are not speaking of the whole world as we understand it ( Genesis 41:56–57 ; Acts 2:5 ) . |
| 16 | It is , in fact , possible to go beyond the association of these particular principles with democracy , and say that the emergence of politics as we understand it was tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece . |
| 17 | What is indubitable is that they are used of effects , that they can not be used of unnecessitated events , and hence that effects as we understand them are not unnecessitated events . |
| 18 | It may simply be said that what is needed for two events to be cause and effect as we understand them is that the probability of the second , given the first , is higher than the probability of the second , given the absence of the first . |
| 19 | For him , the sense of a sentence is determined by the sorts of situation we count in favour of the sentence being true , in such a way that the sentence with that sense ( i.e. as we understand it ) can not be false if the sort of situation we count as making it true occurs . |
| 20 | ( 5 ) In respect of any orders for payment of standard basis costs by the plaintiffs to the defendants that have already been made it is , as we understand it , common ground that the court was not thereby purporting to deprive the defendants of any costs which they were contractually entitled to add to their security . |
| 21 | Splendid examples are a youth with a discus and a bearded boxer , his hand bound with thongs , the face almost a portrait as we understand the term . |
| 22 | The Andokides Painter surely ‘ thought ’ in black-figure ; Epiktetos thinks in red-figure ; and one of the differences is a renewed concern with drawing as we understand it , something hardly possible in black-figure . |
| 23 | Just so long as we understand each other . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other . |
| 25 | As we understand more about a text 's specific historicity , how it emerged from a distinctive social embedment , we might expect it to be unavailable sometimes for current employment . |
| 26 | However , he went on to demand " clarity on the question of US installations in ( Thule , ) Greenland and ( Flyingdales , ) England , modernized , as we understand , in violation of the ABM treaty " . |
| 27 | As we understand it , nothing has changed in Japan but it still managed to make the news and push the share price higher , so that it ended the month in much the same place as it began . |
| 28 | ‘ As long as we understand each other on that score , fair enough . ’ |
| 29 | As long as we understand each other . |
| 30 | In West Yorkshire to the South we have similar problems of inner city decline and there as we understand it the authorities wish to cater for their housing needs . |