Example sentences of "to understand what is going [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 A lot of aggressive publicity and marketing surrounds funboard design , and for the uninitiated it is difficult to understand what is going on .
2 It may cause damage to a part of the person but we should not lose sight of the whole person if we wish to understand what is going on .
3 Thus , for example , in order to understand what is going on at the local outside-level on Lewis , it is necessary to examine the structure of the oil industry as a whole .
4 The cross-fertilisation between formulating problems and collecting data is of central importance in participant observation when the researcher spends several months ‘ in the field ’ trying to understand what is going on .
5 To understand what is going on in physiological psychology one needs to know what these assumptions are .
6 Anxiety management training is about helping clients to understand what is going on , then teaching them skills to cope with anxiety , then encouraging them to put themselves deliberately into situations which create anxiety but with which they cope successfully .
7 It 's about trying to understand what is going on , almost through the eyes of the participants themselves .
8 North Shields and Cramlington are different , and those differences are important and they help us to understand what is going on .
9 In the examination of North Shields and Cramlington the interaction of base , civil society and state will be investigated in order to understand what is going on .
10 The reasons for this appear to be ( a ) what the students perceive as cashable cheques in the job market and ( b ) a genuine intellectual concern to understand what is going on in their society .
11 ‘ Few human geographers seem willing to come out of their national shells and take the wider view which would enable them to understand what is going on within their own countries ’ ( Thrift , 1986 , 62 ) .
12 The industrial paradigm has been based on the idea that the purpose of life is the satisfaction of our physical needs ( including our intellectual need to understand what is going on in the physical universe ) .
13 The same information will help members of a project team to understand what is going on , and why , strengthening their contribution and going some way to prepare them for the project management role when it comes their way .
14 We shall now see that in order to account for changes in the modern world this evolutionary background of the ego and superego is by no means irrelevant ; on the contrary , we must take it very seriously if we are to be able to understand what is going on around us .
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