Example sentences of "to be [adv] understand [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Even as the century nears its end , this key fact has yet to be properly understood or acknowledged .
2 These are all important issues which need to be clearly understood and decided upon .
3 Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981a ) also looked at lag behind the speaker and though his concern was for individual comparison , a general conclusion is that the usual 2 — 3 seconds lag of the BSL interpreter behind the speaker is not sufficient for the message to be both understood and presented to the audience in a form which can be understood .
4 Hereafter the penicillins were studied in countless laboratories , academic and commercial , and discoveries were made which enabled them to be better understood and used as the foundation for many new drugs .
5 The reasons for it remain to be fully understood but it will certainly reopen the debate about this aspect of dependency — chosen or enforced ?
6 The substantive law applied in many tribunals has become more complex since 1957 , while procedural rules have developed which need to be fully understood and carefully observed to make the most effective use of the tribunal decision-making process .
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