Example sentences of "[pron] can understand the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can understand the caution in the light of the Hillsborough disaster , but the charges per officer are outrageous . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I can understand the feelings of any community that when it 's suggested there should be a gipsy site . |
| 6 | As it is I can hold conversations of about the standard that a three-year-old Parisian can manage ( well , a slightly retarded three-year-old ) so I can understand the problem a young horse has . |
| 7 | I CAN understand the grumpiness of Prince Charles . |
| 8 | It is strange and I can understand the criticism , but if I sold it , I 'd have no home and no money . |
| 9 | I can understand the reason for other people having them , but I ca n't really see myself having it . |
| 10 | I can understand the annoyance at the high cost of premium rate calls from telephone boxes . |
| 11 | I can understand the designers ' reasoning , in that the knobs for the front pickup are to the front , and so on , but consciously or subconsciously , guitarists work from the selector switch , and my feeling is that that should point towards the pickup controls currently in use . |
| 12 | Mr Barton , whose last job , ironically , was caretaker manager of Portsmouth , added : ‘ I can understand the pressure Graeme is under after the season he has had . |
| 13 | I mean I can understand the point of will , will , will |
| 14 | ‘ I can understand the connection , ’ she said . |
| 15 | The record £700,000 buy said : ‘ I 've been missing chances and I can understand the fans ' frustrations but this goal should help . ’ |
| 16 | I can understand the publishers ’ point of view : they 're fed up with booksellers buying 20,000 and returning 18,000 . |
| 17 | HAVING lost four general elections I can understand the socialists being busy and trying to scare the electorate with a terror story every day . |
| 18 | ‘ Those who can understand the Bible are allowed to read it , but there are passages that could be misinterpreted by the unintelligent or those of simple understanding . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You can understand the attitude from the way he still says ‘ punk rock ’ instead of ‘ punk ’ . |
| 21 | So you can understand the trepidation with which your kitten greets , some would say , our less civilised climate . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You can understand the need for a programme , constructed in advance and regarded by you as legally binding on your attention . |
| 24 | As her eyes widened he added , ‘ Perhaps now you can understand the reason why I bought it and why it is so important to me that it should succeed ? ’ |
| 25 | yes , but er , you can understand the confusion really . |
| 26 | But if you can , if you can understand the difference between simple time and the compound time and er try not to muddle the fact that six eight does not mean that there are six quaver beats in a bar , but it means that there are two dotted beats , and two dotted crotchet beats in a bar and try and get that into your head as soon as you can you 're gon na find it a lot easier . |
| 27 | Yet we can understand the bewilderment of a passing nurse as she caught the softly spoken words : |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |