Sentence examples for had understood to be from inspiring English sources

Enron's disclosures last week showed it needed to pay far more in debts over the next year than most people had understood to be the case.

They would now be competing for the second-year teaching fellowships that they had understood to be guaranteed, and faced a potential doubling of their student debt.

Boyle and Macdonald's adaptation of Alex Garland's novel, The Beach, flopped from an even greater height and caused a rift with McGregor, who lost the role he had understood to be his.

Here are two: "They had placed, man and boy, a wager of $10 on the game, which Karl even at that time had understood to be nothing for the man and everything for himself, a concrete iteration of the stakes in the ongoing matchups the man had a genius for drawing him into and he a genius for losing — a daily dose of death that he resisted justifying as practice for the final one awaiting him.

In a technocratic model of policy advice, the assumption is that politicians more or less automatically implement the knowledge that experts have understood to be "true".

Since classical antiquity, being on the receiving end has been understood to be inappropriate and degrading for grown men.

Since the 1940s, the ideal experiment has been understood to be an experiment comparing randomly composed experimental and control groups.

"It doesn't have to be understood to be real".

This backlash has to be understood to be confronted.

Penetration has always been understood to be an essential element of bestiality".

"We had understood this to be the rule all along".