Example sentences of "understand what it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes me feel insecure — not understanding what it is they want so much . |
| 2 | He discovered , for example , that laboratory technicians at Fawley were carrying out chemical tests without really understanding what it was they were doing . |
| 3 | He does n't understand what it is to have real purpose , or peace . |
| 4 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 5 | Does the knowledge that an experiment is taking place , even if they do not fully understand what it is about , mean that people behave differently from usual ? |
| 6 | The argument also assumes ( b ) that I can understand what it is for others to have mental states . |
| 7 | I do n't understand what it is you want , or what you have to do with Spiderglass , or even how you got me away from them . |
| 8 | Decide where you want the storage directory to be , and name it so that you can understand what it is used for ; for instance , you may create it as follows : |
| 9 | I like what you print about me — and am amused and as usual do n't understand what it is all about even if you do say I am intellectual … |
| 10 | However , on a more serious note , I do understand what it is like to have unwanted admirers . |
| 11 | Well I do n't understand what it is do n't know why you really needed it ! |
| 12 | I wo n't , I ca n't understand what it is , but it says general knowledge . |
| 13 | ‘ But I also hope that people will understand what it 's like standing outside your own house , knowing that your son is a prisoner in there and not being able to get in . |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't understand what it 's like for a woman . |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't understand what it 's like , Aunt Louise . |
| 16 | you just ca n't understand what it 's on about so |
| 17 | I did n't really understand what it was all about except that there were always sugar lumps in my pocket for when I did n't feel very well . |
| 18 | ‘ Have you ever followed each step of a proof , and yet felt you did not understand what it was about ? ’ |
| 19 | For the most part , parents mistakenly thought their children were not legally entitled to vote , despite having voting cards , or they judged that their children would not understand what it was all about . |
| 20 | ‘ No one who was n't with us in the hills could possibly understand what it was all about and it 's over now . |
| 21 | I know it 's very stupid of me , but I could n't understand what it was supposed to be about at all . |
| 22 | Robert 's real worry was that he could not understand what it was that had caused offence . |
| 23 | There was just something about Luke Calder that seemed to affect her , although for the life of her she could n't understand what it was . |
| 24 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
| 25 | I decided that I liked Krems , and suddenly understood what it was had attracted W. H. Auden to live in rural Austria — its high camp ! |
| 26 | If only we could bring it into focus , he wrote , if only we could concentrate hard enough , we might be able to understand what it is . |
| 27 | They have taken a long hard look at the way Japanese firms operate and tried to understand what it is that makes them so much more productive and successful . |
| 28 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 29 | The answer is that even if everyone playing cards always had a certain sort of feeling when they trumped an opponent 's card and had another , different , feeling when they revoked , it would still be the case that to understand what it is to trump , and to revoke , we would have to look at the game itself , that is , at the use of trump-cards in the game . |
| 30 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |