Example sentences of "[pron] can understand the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can understand the caution in the light of the Hillsborough disaster , but the charges per officer are outrageous . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Barton , whose last job , ironically , was caretaker manager of Portsmouth , added : ‘ I can understand the pressure Graeme is under after the season he has had . |
| 3 | I can understand the designers ' reasoning , in that the knobs for the front pickup are to the front , and so on , but consciously or subconsciously , guitarists work from the selector switch , and my feeling is that that should point towards the pickup controls currently in use . |
| 4 | The record £700,000 buy said : ‘ I 've been missing chances and I can understand the fans ' frustrations but this goal should help . ’ |
| 5 | I CAN understand the grumpiness of Prince Charles . |
| 6 | I can understand the annoyance at the high cost of premium rate calls from telephone boxes . |
| 7 | I mean I can understand the point of will , will , will |
| 8 | I can understand the reason for other people having them , but I ca n't really see myself having it . |
| 9 | Mr. Walker : I can understand the Hon. Gentleman expressing his concern about the opting out of hospitals in rural Wales , having looked at some of the press comments on the proposals . |
| 10 | I can understand the publishers ’ point of view : they 're fed up with booksellers buying 20,000 and returning 18,000 . |
| 11 | I can understand the haggard eyes |
| 12 | ‘ I can understand the connection , ’ she said . |
| 13 | I can understand the apparent stupefaction of all parties . |
| 14 | I said , ‘ I can understand the hundred-year hold . |
| 15 | Well , I can understand the Labour Group wishing to bypass National Government if that Government were headed by Mister Kinnock , but without that particular incentive I do n't think that international negotiations should be taken by any organisation outside National Government , otherwise we 'd cease to be a nation . |
| 16 | This date of April I can understand the Minister er the Minister of Transport is concerned , but unless something is done pretty quickly there 'll be a lot of people in Leeds who will be worrying about what 's going to happen on er around the station because there is this small group of people no not always from the town concerned or the city concerned , who behave in this abysmal way and British Transport Police have a very good record at the stations and on the trains as they can move from one part of the country to another . |
| 17 | It is strange and I can understand the criticism , but if I sold it , I 'd have no home and no money . |
| 18 | I can understand the excitement and anticipation of the City Airport 's management but they should stop , draw breath and think this one over very carefully . |
| 19 | HAVING lost four general elections I can understand the socialists being busy and trying to scare the electorate with a terror story every day . |
| 20 | With regard to the vote in the House of Commons on the proposed European committee of the regions , although I can have no sympathy for anyone who votes with the Tory Government I can understand the SNP 's attempts at embracing reality and moving towards the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 21 | Erm I was n't , I did n't know what you were trying to get at when you were bringing up the miles per annum that he was doing , I can understand the flying side of it but driving in the car , yes you need to know that he 's doing a lot of miles and that there 's , you know , the there 's the potential danger and everything there but I did n't understand why you need his specific miles per annum . |
| 22 | I can understand the feelings of any community that when it 's suggested there should be a gipsy site . |
| 23 | As it is I can hold conversations of about the standard that a three-year-old Parisian can manage ( well , a slightly retarded three-year-old ) so I can understand the problem a young horse has . |
| 24 | ‘ Those who can understand the Bible are allowed to read it , but there are passages that could be misinterpreted by the unintelligent or those of simple understanding . ’ |
| 25 | This can , of course , create very undesirable consequences : social stability may be endangered by concentration of too much power and/ or wealth in too few hands ; the privacy of citizens may be abused under the excuse of maintaining law and order , or for commercial gains ; the state may take a " big brother " role ; the business community may acquire too much political power ; or , although very unlikely , IT experts may decide that they should take over the running of the country , since it is only they who can understand the unnecessary complexity of IT systems . |
| 26 | Since we represent at least 1 in 250,000 per head of population , maybe you can understand the size of the task in front of us . |
| 27 | So you can understand the trepidation with which your kitten greets , some would say , our less civilised climate . |
| 28 | You can understand the attitude from the way he still says ‘ punk rock ’ instead of ‘ punk ’ . |
| 29 | You can understand the need for a programme , constructed in advance and regarded by you as legally binding on your attention . |
| 30 | But if you can , if you can understand the difference between simple time and the compound time and er try not to muddle the fact that six eight does not mean that there are six quaver beats in a bar , but it means that there are two dotted beats , and two dotted crotchet beats in a bar and try and get that into your head as soon as you can you 're gon na find it a lot easier . |