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Here it also forms an illuminating study of joinery, scale, detailing, proportion and comfort — comprehended almost as much by sitting as by looking.
"What we know of whales", writes Ms Kelsey, "we extrapolate from the tiny glimpses researchers get at the water surface, and even then, only by looking in the same old places".She is doubtful that man will ever fully understand whales which operate on a scale too large to be comprehended by human senses.
His behaviour makes no sense unless its evolution is comprehended.
"IN THE second century of the Christian era," Edward Gibbon began his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", "the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth and the most civilised portion of mankind".
That the same simple rules describe the fall of an apple, the flight of a cannonball and the movements of the heavens is hugely heartening, for it suggests that despite its fearsome complexity, the universe is something that can be comprehended by mortal minds.
It does so in the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of its use.
Nineteenth-century British and general European politics might be briefly comprehended in a few dozen of these.
Indeed, the whole history of Israel's relationship with the world may be comprehended in the metaphor, used previously, of the heartbeat with its systole and diastole.
Many schemes have arisen successively, all of which have had to take views on two important aspects: the general scale of treatment to be adopted and the degree to which human modification is to be comprehended or discounted.
Indeed, whenever a branch of physics has reached such a degree of maturity that its basic elements are comprehended in general principles, it has moved from basic to applied physics and thence to technology.
Other investigators have been concerned with other kinds of problems, such as how a text is comprehended or how people are reminded of things they already know when reading a text.
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The primary grammatical function of "comprehended" is as the past participle of the verb "comprehend" , often used in passive constructions or as an adjective. Ludwig provides examples of its use in academic writing, news articles, and encyclopedia entries.
Expression frequency: Very common
