Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] understand [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It is so simple that everyone should understand it .
2 ‘ When I spoke of your circumstances , it was only in the belief that I might understand your plight .
3 The argument also assumes ( b ) that I can understand what it is for others to have mental states .
4 She was talking very softly and I yelled at her ‘ Do please talk so that I can understand you ’ in a very irritated voice .
5 that I can understand it in his own language ;
6 So nice and slowly , do n't rush it , read it so that I can understand it nice and clearly , sshh , listen
7 She says : ‘ Many must be going through hell and are frightened to ask for help , believing that nobody will understand their turmoil .
8 ‘ Craark ! ’ it said , and to Mildred 's delight , she found that she could understand what the creature meant .
9 STEP 10 CAPTION — Having entered the macro save it as BLOCKCNT.SMM , filling in the description box so that you can understand what it does .
10 Decide where you want the storage directory to be , and name it so that you can understand what it is used for ; for instance , you may create it as follows :
11 In order that you can understand what I am talking about , I will tell you a little about the story line .
12 Perhaps you would like to verify that you can understand something of the organisation using this form of documentation .
13 Yeah and all you know things that it 's almost expected that you will understand what they mean .
14 ‘ One of the fundamental tenets of the quality process , ’ said Anthony Goddard , ‘ is that you should understand your customer 's requirements .
15 It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself .
16 The first is to provide simple descriptions of complex data so that we can understand what is going on in our experiments .
17 B : Well , the milkman has come It is only on the basis of assuming the relevance of B's response that we can understand it as providing a partial answer to A's question .
18 I felt revolted by them and began to sleep in the hall , dragging a pillow and a wool blanket off the bed and leaving the room to them , in the hope that they would understand my anger , that they would no longer stay till the early hours of the morning , stepping over me as I lay asleep , leaving overflowing ashtrays and empty glasses and cans and bottles strewn about the floor .
19 However , before the visit ended the husband and wife both admitted to being charmed with Annabel 's friend , and that they could understand their daughter 's feelings towards her , for the girl was not only as beautiful as Annabel had described her , but also she had the most pleasing and cultured voice .
20 I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway .
21 Now some doctors could conceivably still be frightened off , but we must presume , I think , that doctors are literate people , that they can understand what the law is if it is told to them , and the medical societies and other groups are making available to them the workings of this particular Act .
22 Is there a way of talking in your natural dialect that they can understand you and yet without losing it ?
23 ‘ John went behind the counter at Selfridges for a couple of days so that he would understand what assistants have to cope with .
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