Example sentences of "can understand the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can understand the companies . |
| 2 | Yet we can understand the bewilderment of a passing nurse as she caught the softly spoken words : |
| 3 | But I remember Puzznic very fondly as a game that I could actually get my head around ( it 's very flexible you know ) ; even a thicko like me can understand the concept of joining corresponding icons together . |
| 4 | I can understand the excitement and anticipation of the City Airport 's management but they should stop , draw breath and think this one over very carefully . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think anyone , who either has children or who does n't want them , can understand the state of mind of people who do want them . |
| 6 | With regard to the vote in the House of Commons on the proposed European committee of the regions , although I can have no sympathy for anyone who votes with the Tory Government I can understand the SNP 's attempts at embracing reality and moving towards the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 7 | What I have tried to show in this section is that before we can fully understand the particular historical genres which appear under the labels of programme categories , and , even more importantly , before we can understand the forms of subjectivity which they imply , we need to place them in their historical and institutional relationship to the theoretical genre of novelistic narrative . |
| 8 | But before we can understand the operation of macroeconomic management it is first necessary to examine a simple model within which some of the more fundamental macroeconomic relationships can be identified and explained . |
| 9 | I can understand the caution in the light of the Hillsborough disaster , but the charges per officer are outrageous . ’ |
| 10 | I can understand the feelings of any community that when it 's suggested there should be a gipsy site . |
| 11 | There is a captive audience , most of whom can understand the relevance of the message , and many are prepared to participate as they await their flight . |
| 12 | We have found that they can understand the idea of written-down cost if they are directed towards examples with which they are familiar . |
| 13 | Newsam who wrote the piece before the National Curriculum and its assessment procedures were planned ended the piece by remarking with irony ‘ As with any good joke , a child can understand the fable . |
| 14 | I commend this statement to you , those of you who are responsible for the accounts of your organisations , I hope you will also seek to comply with the , the standard , so that the charities of all organisations , the accounts of all charities can be seen clearly , so that er , you can understand the activities of your organisations from the accounts , and so that one charity can better be compared with another charity . |
| 15 | ( In exactly the same way , congenitally blind people can understand the physics of vision , but are unable to conceive what it would be like to experience seeing , for example , different colours . |
| 16 | It is strange and I can understand the criticism , but if I sold it , I 'd have no home and no money . |
| 17 | Seriously , one can understand the Archbishop 's concern to retain the best of the tradition : a liturgy involving elements of worship ; confession ; intercession ; Bible reading ; biblical preaching and blessing . |
| 18 | People can understand the relationship between these two sentences , and hence the coherence of this discourse , through the activation of relevant knowledge sources and elaborative inferences . |
| 19 | You can understand the attitude from the way he still says ‘ punk rock ’ instead of ‘ punk ’ . |
| 20 | It may seem somewhat curious logic to decide whether empirically determined facts can only be accepted provided that they can be explained , but one can understand the attitude when the facts seem less than certain . |
| 21 | We can understand the heartbeat of Augustine , Bernard of Clairvaux , Julian of Norwich , Teresa of Avila , Martin Luther or John Calvin , just as we know our own fears and our longings . |
| 22 | Since we represent at least 1 in 250,000 per head of population , maybe you can understand the size of the task in front of us . |
| 23 | The Spirit of Romance is undertaken on the principle that Pound never ceased to hammer home , notably in How To Read and The ABC of Reading : the principle that no one can understand the history of poetry in English unless he or she takes note of poetry in , or responsibly translated out of , other languages than English . |
| 24 | It is necessary for contemporary women artists so that they can understand the history and the specificity of their positioning as artists who are women , with specific social and cultural locations in terms of class , race and sexuality , as opposed to the stereotypical displacement as ‘ women artists ’ . |
| 25 | Both these words were used in medieval times ; and we can understand the word knacker as an equivalent for harness-maker when we learn that it comes from an Icelandic root , knakkr , meaning a saddle . |
| 26 | This date of April I can understand the Minister er the Minister of Transport is concerned , but unless something is done pretty quickly there 'll be a lot of people in Leeds who will be worrying about what 's going to happen on er around the station because there is this small group of people no not always from the town concerned or the city concerned , who behave in this abysmal way and British Transport Police have a very good record at the stations and on the trains as they can move from one part of the country to another . |
| 27 | Instead , I will discuss my approach to how one can understand the universe : what is the status and meaning of a grand unified theory , a ‘ theory of everything . ’ |
| 28 | So you can understand the trepidation with which your kitten greets , some would say , our less civilised climate . |
| 29 | Again , if we can understand the reasons for these choices , we may go some way towards explaining that strange feeling teachers have when reading a piece of written work in which every sentence is grammatically correct , and yet there is something not quite right . |
| 30 | It is true that personal ownership of some kinds of wealth is declining — but our focus is on assets under the control of individuals so that we can understand the effects of wealth on class position . |