Example sentences of "not understand [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 2 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ You appear to be the only person left in the country who does not understand why the Chancellor resigned . |
| 3 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 4 | He was completely dumbfounded by the whole incident and could not understand why the rocks had fallen on his cottage . |
| 5 | I could not understand why the door had been locked . |
| 6 | Jorg Sambetn , a Givaudan engineer who investigated the accident after it happened , says it should only have taken 15 minutes , and can not understand why the workers omitted it . |
| 7 | Team manager John Louis said last night , ‘ Miroslaw has all the status of a world star and I can not understand why the request was refused . |
| 8 | Now I have explained all I can , you will realise that we really do not understand why the neocortex is , as Herrick called it , the organ of civilisation . |
| 9 | When I visited the School of Mathematics , I could not understand why the students looked so unhappy . |
| 10 | Tess could not see his face , and could not understand why the head-dairyman himself should call him sir . |
| 11 | Tess did not tell Marian everything , so Marian could not understand why the couple were apart . |
| 12 | Moreover , we can not understand why the 10% contribution estimated to have been made from this source to total aggregates provision in the past was added to , rather than subtracted from , projected future demand ( PIP 2.7 ) . |
| 13 | Moreover , we can not understand why the 10% contribution estimated to have been made from this source to total aggregates provision in the past was added to , rather than subtracted from , projected future demand ( PIP 2.7 ) . |
| 14 | I was about to say that , looking back at his record , I could not understand why the Home Secretary wanted to relive his time as Conservative party chairman , because that was hardly his finest hour . |
| 15 | I can not understand why the hon. and learned Gentleman says that it is not so . |
| 16 | Or perhaps he could not understand why the boy , though pinned like the serpent in Saint Patrick 's cleft stick with no chance of escape , grew more and more cheerful each day . |
| 17 | In a faint and rasping voice , at times straining to make himself heard , Mr McTear told reporters that he could not understand why the Government had permitted cigarettes to be sold . |
| 18 | Mungo could not understand how the price constantly rose while no one seemed to bid . |
| 19 | I can not understand how the Government sends a man out to fight us , as it did General Miles , and then breaks his word . |
| 20 | Immediately a great roar of applause broke out , and Gurney looked at the audience , and this time his self-satisfied smirk seemed to be so obvious , to George at any rate , that he could not understand how the audience too could fail to see it . |
| 21 | Despite all the contrary opinions expressed in the play , the underlying message was that it is the mother 's right to choose whether she wants to bring up a child who is mentally handicapped , and that other people simply do not understand how the mother feels . |
| 22 | In the ‘ He had green parakeets ’ opening she could not understand how the bird would get into the cage with his wings spread . |
| 23 | He could not understand how the hrududu could move so quickly and smoothly through the fields . |
| 24 | He could not understand how the West could have allowed it all to take place . |
| 25 | I do not understand how the Government can paint the picture that they have . |
| 26 | ‘ We simply can not understand how the GMC can find these two men guilty of serious professional misconduct , yet allow them off Scot-free . ’ |
| 27 | I still can not understand how the residents maintain that the proposed scheme will cause an increase in danger to people using the area . |
| 28 | ‘ But I still do n't understand where the boundary was . |
| 29 | Merely by shutting his door if it was open , North would add to the intrigue of meetings : ‘ and when the meeting was over , I still could n't understand why the door was shut and what the intrigue was ’ said a visiting official , puzzled ; ‘ it was in my mind 's eye a social call . ’ |
| 30 | When the price of such attractive styling on so usable a 5-string is this low , I ca n't understand why the whole country is n't playing them … |