Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [pron] [modal v] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Les said I ca n't believe this he said , I he said if you 'd have been in business ten years that I could understand but he said to do it your first |
| 2 | What I will write here will be in a language most will understand and , wherever possible , I have thrown out complex biochemical concepts , trying to translate them into simple concepts that everyone will understand . |
| 3 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |
| 4 | I think they can be interested when somebody speaks out in terms that they can understand . |
| 5 | Sir Patrick Mayhew and Mr Dick Spring must give him his answer tomorrow , in terms that everyone can understand . |
| 6 | It is by studying the pattern of naming times across such different situations that we can understand where changes in size and orientation affect recognition . |
| 7 | Mr when he gave evidence , assessed the parent 's contribution as quote absolutely amazing really , not just what they did to help the nurses but also in insisting that she was n't stupid , she just could n't talk they made it clear to the nurses and doctors that she could understand and we were n't to treat her like a vegetable . |
| 8 | This would certainly have been within the power of an omnipotent being , but if he had started it off in such an incomprehensible way , why did he choose to let it evolve according to laws that we could understand ? |