Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [modal v] not understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For reasons that I can not understand , ’ he continued , ‘ we in Britain seem to have a negative response to winners . |
| 2 | Your letter makes so much sense that I can not understand the recommendations of so many manufacturers to regularly fully discharge NiCad batteries . |
| 3 | He apparently forgot that I could not understand German or else decided that what he wanted to say could not be left unsaid , for he began to talk fast and seriously . |
| 4 | The same must be true of a situation in which the defendant pleads honest belief in consent on the ground that the victim permitted penetration although the defendant was aware that she might not understand the nature of the act . |
| 5 | A further situation might arise , however , in which the defendant alleges belief in consent on the basis of the victim 's consent to penetration but where it did not occur to him that she might not understand the nature of the act , although the risk of this was quite obvious . |
| 6 | It was half way through , and she could not understand a word of the dialogue and was surprised and rather indignant that she could not understand , for she had genuinely looked forward , with half of herself , to seeing a picture : as it was , she found herself obliged to concentrate on the other aspects of the affair . |
| 7 | There is no point in having access to information that you can not understand , or having the opportunity to propose policies which you can not formulate . |
| 8 | It is humiliating to be living in debt and squalor in the midst of affluence and bewildering to feel helpless in the face of laws , regulations and procedures that one can not understand . |
| 9 | Teaching often involves looking in detail at particular passages , in the hope that the part will relate coherently to the whole , but the doctrine of the hermeneutic circle reminds us that we can not understand the parts until we understand the whole ( and vice versa ) . |
| 10 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 11 | Equally , anti-realism as a response to the sceptic relies on the view that we can not understand propositions whose meaning is such that they express ( or purport to express ) evidence-transcendent facts . |
| 12 | ‘ I … ’ and Creggan knew that they would not understand the truth if he tried to explain it . |
| 13 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 14 | I have just met some colleagues in the House — and I do not dare to name the Opposition Members — who asked me questions about the amendment because there were points that they could not understand or that they had not seen before . |
| 15 | In order to read the story they must find it interesting or useful , and it must not be so detailed and technical that they can not understand it . |
| 16 | People are rational , so rational in fact that they can not understand the random nature of the decisions such senior executives make . |
| 17 | The old have to accept changes in patterns of living and cultural standards that they can not understand , and cope with rejection by the younger generations , as well as a good deal of sentimentality and shallow stereotyping in private and public references to themselves . |
| 18 | I knew that he would not understand what I was going to say but it was as if there was an invisible person in the carriage before whom I had to justify myself . |
| 19 | Immediately a great roar of applause broke out , and Gurney looked at the audience , and this time his self-satisfied smirk seemed to be so obvious , to George at any rate , that he could not understand how the audience too could fail to see it . |
| 20 | One bemused attender started to shout that he could not understand the answers to such questions . |
| 21 | This explains the Persian king 's response to Spartan requests for financial help in the 420s , that he could not understand what they wanted . |
| 22 | Robert 's real worry was that he could not understand what it was that had caused offence . |
| 23 | In a faint and rasping voice , at times straining to make himself heard , Mr McTear told reporters that he could not understand why the Government had permitted cigarettes to be sold . |
| 24 | He said a suggestion that he was a criminal overlord in Glasgow was nonsense and that he could not understand why he had a reputation as the godfather . |