Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [not/n't] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Opposition do not understand that we have to provide for the full life of the Trident system — for 30 years . |
| 2 | ‘ The occupational Therapy department do n't understand what art is about at all . |
| 3 | We ought to start speaking in Spanish so the people who read this dictionary do n't understand it |
| 4 | ‘ The occupational Therapy department does n't understand what art is about at all . |
| 5 | The Literary Critic does n't understand English ; still less does it have any feel for the aesthetics of the language . |
| 6 | Clearly the hon. Lady does not understand LMS . |
| 7 | Now if the child does n't understand the symbol , their behaviour can react in one of two directions . |
| 8 | A vague command where the child does not understand the meaning behind the statement , e.g. ‘ Be careful ’ instead of ‘ Please come down off that wall ’ . |
| 9 | What the child does not understand is that unfortunately the GIANTS have to do this . |
| 10 | For Schopenhauer , valuable as all the arts were , music was the art which uniquely penetrated the depths of metaphysical reality and expressed the essence of that reality , the will , directly : " the composer reveals the innermost nature of the world and expresses the deepest wisdom in a language which his rational faculty does not understand " , Words , on the other hand , like the instruments of reason that they are , could only intrude from the secondary world of physical phenomena , with which true music was not concerned . |
| 11 | When it comes to the second aspect — marketing the services offered by departments — it is possible to content that ‘ top management does not understand what marketing is or its importance to an organisation 's success . |
| 12 | The author did not understand these and thought them perhaps to be due to changes in reflectance . |
| 13 | ‘ Those who blur over that distinction do not understand its crucial importance for the successful handling of a whole series of intractable problems of which this is just , at the moment , the worst . ’ |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Epping Forest does not understand that . |
| 15 | But they are — ’ Suragai used a word Burun did not understand , then corrected himself , ‘ — imaginary . |
| 16 | The receiver will not refuse because one cent is better than nothing ( and self-interest does not understand spite ) . |
| 17 | I suppose your wife does n't understand you . ’ |
| 18 | His marriage was in a mess but , to give him credit , he never once uttered the words , ‘ My wife does n't understand me . ’ |
| 19 | She is usually just trying to be friendly and helpful and supportive when the love crazed imbecile is trying to explain that his wife does n't understand him … ( yawn ) . |
| 20 | But if the choreographer does not understand all the details which go to make the total presentation of a ballet , it can all too easily fail in some way or other . |
| 21 | In the following extract , for example , one speaker uses a multiply ambiguous term ‘ child bar ’ which the other does not understand , causing a temporary breakdown in communication . |
| 22 | So , the hon. Gentleman does not understand the purpose for which the fund was devised . |
| 23 | The reality , I fear , is that the right hon. Gentleman does not understand the economy or how it works . |
| 24 | Fabia protested — and saw that the word appointment was a word the woman did n't understand . |
| 25 | But our dog does not understand the word ‘ sit ’ in the way we do any more than we understand the nuances of his barking in the way that he does . |
| 26 | Renaissance drawings of machines , and even some of those from the eighteenth century , sometimes display an ignorance of how the device must really have worked ; and at other times they are fudged , so that important features can not be seen because the artist did not understand them . |
| 27 | At first Raoul did not understand . |
| 28 | The itemization makes it plain that it is precisely four things that the speaker does not understand . |
| 29 | Mrs Clinton tells Vanity Fair , apparently without weighing the truth of the charges against Mr Bush : ‘ What Bill does n't understand is you 've got ta do the same thing in response as you do in negative advertising . ’ |
| 30 | For the subject does not understand history according to its scientific formulation , but undergoes the process of inter-pellation at the level of ideology , and thus experiences it through the formulas of historicism . |