Sentence examples for is given to understand from inspiring English sources

Desirable people appear onscreen, and one is given to understand that at some point they have had or will have had relations, but their entanglements are incidental to the plot.

Stevens's personality, the reader is given to understand, was shaped in an era, the first decades of the twentieth century, when human relationships tended to be thought of as naturally hierarchical.

Freddie is an alcoholic, his face gaunt and haunted, agonised and twisted with his own swallowed misery; he is addicted to the poisonous moonshine he brews himself, a transient who stumbles from job to job, and then finally, through the mysterious workings of fate and zen – as he is given to understand – the hobo Freddie meets his redeemer.

As in Philippe de Broca's "King of Hearts" (1966), which "House of Fools" resembles to a highly painful degree, the viewer is given to understand that the gentle, childlike inmates are far saner than the generals and politicians who run the big, brutal outside world.

Most of the action takes place in the 1920s, when, after the early success of "The Mysteries of Barcelona" and the "City of the Damned" series (of which he produces 27 volumes), the young novelist is struck by a deadly illness and is given to understand that doing a job for that elegant Parisian, Andreas Corelli, might save him.

Specific attention is given to understand the effect of the oxide support.

I was given to understand that this will never happen.

Some were given to understand that they were writing for the Observer.

Good story, of course, but I am given to understand, not true.

Nothing, we were given to understand by some speakers, would ever be the same again.

We are given to understand that certain ex-CIA types are not happy with developments.