Example sentences of "understand [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the man responsible for operations throughout the UK , he had had difficulty in understanding exactly what the CIOR meant , he said . |
| 2 | For Marie , this was a constant source of worry , because she had continually to choose between understanding fully what she was doing , by asking demonstrators for help , and risking losing marks , or by not asking and floundering further and further in the experiment . |
| 3 | Whether or not they are given delegated powers , sub-committees must have specific terms of reference and clearly defined tasks , so that everyone understands just what the sub-committees are to do and when it is to be done . |
| 4 | Once you or anyone else understands exactly what 's required it is very easy . |
| 5 | Errors of logic are where BBCBASIC(Z80) understands exactly what you said , but what you said is not what you meant . |
| 6 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 7 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 8 | Not to risk Gazza until the World Cup-tie against San Marino in February , shows Taylor does not yet understand just what the £5.5million star can do for English football . |
| 9 | It was n't the egotism she feared that told her none of the others would understand just what the program was , or its significance . |
| 10 | Most of us have heard of them even if we do n't understand exactly what they are . |
| 11 | She had been interrupted , she had n't been able to make him understand exactly what had happened to Christina . |
| 12 | Indeed , I recalled the Government 's commitment to ‘ work towards ’ the quality that we were studying , and could not understand exactly what I had envisaged by the notion of working towards the condition of being alive rather than dead . |
| 13 | When Tom Wilmot at Harvard told dealers around the time of Big Bang : " You should all understand thoroughly what 's going on . |
| 14 | ‘ Before any redwoods had been cloned or genetically improved , one could understand clearly what the fight against such tinkering was about . |
| 15 | ( Or were some people very quiet ? ) 4 Did people listen to what other people were saying ? 5 Did everyone understand clearly what they had to do ? 6 How did the group agree on its answer ? 7 How did everyone feel about the answer that was agreed ? 8 Was it an equal group , or did someone act as a boss ? |
| 16 | I did not understand perfectly what the connection was but I felt guilt was involved — and a sense of obligation . |
| 17 | I need interpreters in my surgery who can speak Punjabi , Urdu and Gujarati , otherwise I can not understand fully what my constituents are saying when they have complicated immigration problems . |
| 18 | Does anybody understand vaguely what Clare 's talking about heard of this example . |
| 19 | ‘ Constanza says that she felt so much for her mother , even if she did not understand then what it meant to her to be cut off from Italy , from Rome . |
| 20 | No , representative Amnesty , all for , only known he had , I think it was Ann 's and he , Ann was out he did n't get her , I thought , no it was n't you , it was Ann , and he , and he could n't get her , I do n't understand quite what 's he talking about , but anyway , I phoned the Justice and Peace Group and found they 'd already , |
| 21 | Delectable though you are , even you ca n't change the fact that Peter has never understood exactly what the word ‘ fidelity ’ means . ’ |
| 22 | I should however indicate that to understand properly what is the appropriate position for an inset boundary , I have to look at the reasons for there being an inset at all for the village , as , as you correctly indicate , it lies plainly otherwise within the general extent of the greenbelt . |
| 23 | In this respect it is very important to understand just what he meant by exchange . |
| 24 | So it 's vital to understand just what the right weight is , and how to feed a bird to keep it fit but well fed . |
| 25 | Because troubadour music and poetry were vital elements in the atmosphere which Richard breathed throughout his life it is important to understand just what courtly love was . |
| 26 | She helped us try to understand just what life is like for her . |
| 27 | Anthropologists of all kinds are greatly concerned to understand just what , if anything , is universally true of human society . |
| 28 | By calculating the cost of doing something wrong or ‘ the price of non-conformance , ’ it is possible to understand just what it means to a business in monetary terms . |
| 29 | ‘ Chapman Taylor on the other hand , ’ says Newman , ‘ understand exactly what the retailer wants . ’ |
| 30 | Few people understand exactly what they are and what they can do and quite a few people have mistaken impressions from the media . |