Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] understand [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx and Engels argues that we must understand ideas as products of people engaged in this natural process and see the production of ideas as an aspect of the general enterprise of making a living from nature . |
| 2 | Does this mean that we will understand schizophrenia if we know that it often occurs in people when a certain ion channel or a certain enzyme is damaged ? |
| 3 | It is in this social-theoretical context that we can understand Bourdieu 's effectively poststructural challenge to Lévi-Strauss 's and Althusser 's eminently modernist conceptions of scientific objectivity and autonomous structures . |
| 4 | ‘ That would be the end of me , I 'd be nothing then , ’ he would mumble , and once Nathan tried to tap out code on his hand , so that he would understand messages in the event . |
| 5 | Paul Trowbridge , UK marketing manager with SynOptics Communications Inc , said that he can understand Proteon 's viewpoint , and believes that APPI development has been driven by the financing questions surrounding APPN . |
| 6 | It is a dramatic island viewed from the sea and I can understand Alexander Dumas choosing it as a setting for his novel The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 7 | I am good-humoured , adaptable and I can understand instructions . |
| 8 | Piper explained : ‘ I have already been written off by a lot of people and a lot of critics and I can understand Benn being favourite . |
| 9 | If I can understand people after twenty five thirty years in sales and marketing listening to people on the phone and knowing how important it is in this then I then that 's fine . |
| 10 | Now if you can understand rugby or football then you can understand |
| 11 | If you can understand Berlin then perhaps it is also possible to make some sense of what Europe may now become and of what it means to be a European . |
| 12 | ‘ But I can understand people wanting to know . |
| 13 | The m public consultation meetings and the exhibition were advertised in the local press and I believe on the radio as well , so word of mouth I think in , in the event did overcome that but I can understand people 's feeling that they were excluded and it was not deliberate , it was an oversight . |
| 14 | It is a relatively small sum that you 're talking about here because there are not that many employees with long service involved , and so the indemnity is , in our terms not a sizable amount , but I can understand Age Concern 's worries in terms of simply pick picking it up as part of transfer , and why we 'd certainly recommend it to you . |
| 15 | They spent thousands of years before they could understand fractions |
| 16 | As far as I can understand Samson 's Lane is from the school down to Samson 's Farm and probably part of the road down to . |