Example sentences of "n't understand the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyone who does n't believe the White House was was deeply involved … does n't understand the magnitude of the President 's obsession with Noriega or the way Washington works in these areas , ’ said Larry Birns , director of the respected liberal think-tank , the Council on Hemispheric Affairs . |
| 2 | The market for British films was not sufficiently large to justify mass production of films at budgets high enough to ensure they reached real quality , and executives at Stoll did n't understand the difference between good stories and good cinema . |
| 3 | They ca n't understand the timetables . ’ |
| 4 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 5 | I did n't understand the paranoia it induced . |
| 6 | As most of the older women wear saris , they consider fashionable clothes to be unnecessary and irrelevant , and ca n't understand the desires of someone like me , who wants to dress in a fashionable manner in the Western world . |
| 7 | Ian Ramsden , development director of direct marketing agency Eurocom DMA , believes the D & AD awards are decided by ‘ classical ’ admen who do n't understand the blood ‘ n ’ guts approach of direct selling . |
| 8 | But he did say : ‘ I do n't understand the backlash . |
| 9 | Their dangerous truths are left in the hands of politicians , some of them people who are driven by little things , like the desire for personal power , and who do n't understand the explosive possibilities of what they have been given ; or if they understand , do n't care . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel like I 'm in prison and I do n't understand the crime , ’ she told him once the preliminaries were over . |
| 11 | Leavis did n't understand the second law of thermodynamics but felt this was quite irrelevant to ‘ culture ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ But I do n't understand the abnormally low temperature . ’ |
| 13 | They wo n't understand the role they have played and the rift will only become wider . |
| 14 | They could n't understand the practice of mainly worshipping in silence and without a minister , or without the trappings of church rituals . |
| 15 | A lot of fund managers do n't invest in the insurance sector because they do n't understand the accounts — our P/E ratio , for instance , is meaningless . |
| 16 | A lot of fund managers do n't invest in the insurance sector because they do n't understand the accounts |
| 17 | But even though I 'm having a laugh , that 's no good if you do n't understand the depth and seriousness of things . |
| 18 | I do n't understand the entitlement . |
| 19 | I do n't understand the music so I wo n't say it 's no good but if Rolf Harris can sell a million and so can ‘ Sugar Sugar ’ then there 's obviously a market for that type of thing too . |
| 20 | I do n't understand the question |
| 21 | She would n't understand the archaic Italian of the song , and he slipped a pencil from his pocket to scribble a translation on the programme for her . |
| 22 | If we do n't understand the psychological processes that form the bases of performance on the tasks that we use in our behavioural studies our chances of understanding how the brain controls behaviour are limited . |
| 23 | As a result , those customers that do n't understand the system get smaller discounts and pay proportionately more . |
| 24 | He did n't understand the profundity of Estabrook 's pain ; he was too chilly , too remote . |
| 25 | We want more co-operation but do n't understand the things they [ SunSoft ] are doing , ’ says Unix System Labs . |
| 26 | It is because of the lack of community care resources and professionals who do n't understand the scope of their powers under the existing law . |
| 27 | Graham could n't understand the writing across the side of the nearest one . |
| 28 | Well people do n't understand the system and they do n't think that things will affect them . |
| 29 | You wo n't understand the question without a |
| 30 | It might seem that an argument to the effect that we do n't understand the propositions we claim to know must be local rather than global . |