Example sentences of "i can [adv] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an academic critic and university teacher specializing in modern literature and literary theory , I spend much or my time these days reading books and articles that I can barely understand and that cause my wife ( a graduate with a good honours degree in English language and literature ) to utter loud cries of pain and nausea if her eye happens to fall on them . |
| 2 | ‘ I can well understand the feelings of the minority , but I can not understand why they 're offended , ’ said Mr Sliudikas , another district secretary in the capital . |
| 3 | I said I get a lot of enquiries from frustrated knitters on this point and I can well understand their frustration . |
| 4 | I can well understand the plaintiffs ' sense of indignation at the defendants ' breaches of the injunction , and the court will have to consider very carefully all aspects of those breaches when the inevitable contempt proceedings are heard . |
| 5 | ‘ I can well understand that thinking of your daughter in a stranger 's house is not easy . |
| 6 | Having visited homes for abandoned children in Somalia a couple of years ago , I can well understand concern not only about young children in that country , but about all its people . |
| 7 | I can well understand that many older and less confident people feel comfortable and unthreatened in such places . |
| 8 | I can well understand that the political and governing classes are unhappy to see citizens associating freely in each other 's homes , in pubs and private clubs . |
| 9 | I can well understand M M Mr Jewitt 's concerns , erm I think the simple fact of the matter is that not a great deal of Greater York new housing demand is likely to be generated in Hambledon district , whereas in Selby district a significant amount of er demand is likely to be generated , so really by way of conclusion I I would like through you to ask Mr Mr Jewitt if his opposition to the new settlement is as a matter of principle , or whether he 's really stating the case for Hambledon district , in other words , would he object to a new settlement in Selby district ? |
| 10 | But I can also understand why people give up trying to identify them . |
| 11 | I can not understand my conception of the world in terms of , or reduce it to , some account of my dispositions , as it seems plausible one might for the rat 's ( or any third person 's ) conception of the world and its dispositions . |
| 12 | I can not understand this as I can not see any detrimental effect on the carp . |
| 13 | I can not understand how that misconception arose . |
| 14 | ‘ I can not understand how any financial institution can rob two small children of their rights , when all we did was follow the Abbey National 's advice all along . |
| 15 | I can not understand how you , who appreciate so much Russian writers of the Nineteenth Century , can combine this appreciation with a complete ignorance of the obshchestvennoe dvizhenie ( liberal movement ) that started in the time of Alexander I , was conspicuously present throughout the century ( despite absolutism ) , and was deliberately played down by the Leninists and Trotskyists for propaganda reasons . |
| 16 | ‘ I can well understand the feelings of the minority , but I can not understand why they 're offended , ’ said Mr Sliudikas , another district secretary in the capital . |
| 17 | ‘ I can not understand why we were not informed . ’ |
| 18 | It is something else , I can not understand . |
| 19 | He introduced the Deer Act and spoke seventy-seven times during the Wildlife and Countryside Bill ( ‘ I can not understand why anyone should want to shoot a curlew . |
| 20 | I can not understand why he should complain : he had the BBC on his side . |
| 21 | I can not understand how the Government sends a man out to fight us , as it did General Miles , and then breaks his word . |
| 22 | I can not understand why so many chiefs are allowed to talk so many different way , and promise so many different things . |
| 23 | It seems all so mysterious — I can not understand why you have heard nothing … |
| 24 | One problem that occupied him was trying to dissuade Hanns from joining the army : ‘ Do n't do anything so foolish … it seems a hopelessly idiotic and pointless idea , and I can not understand why you want to do this ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I can not understand ’ , Wilson says , |
| 26 | This is something I can not understand : the wonder of sadness , the glory of pain . |
| 27 | I therefore have some sympathy with the New Ager , but I can not understand why he is in such a hurry to rebuild his world on foundational beliefs which have already crippled millions upon millions of fellow human beings . |
| 28 | I can not understand why , after arriving at Kinghorn , he refused to wait up for his royal master and did not go looking for the King . |
| 29 | I can not understand why our pigs were criticized for being too fat because the meat was so sweet and tender , almost like chicken . |
| 30 | I can not understand how individuals with this problem can gain authorisation to give a opinion . |