Example sentences of "can understand the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | They can understand the companies . |
2 | What I have tried to show in this section is that before we can fully understand the particular historical genres which appear under the labels of programme categories , and , even more importantly , before we can understand the forms of subjectivity which they imply , we need to place them in their historical and institutional relationship to the theoretical genre of novelistic narrative . |
3 | I can understand the feelings of any community that when it 's suggested there should be a gipsy site . |
4 | I commend this statement to you , those of you who are responsible for the accounts of your organisations , I hope you will also seek to comply with the , the standard , so that the charities of all organisations , the accounts of all charities can be seen clearly , so that er , you can understand the activities of your organisations from the accounts , and so that one charity can better be compared with another charity . |
5 | Again , if we can understand the reasons for these choices , we may go some way towards explaining that strange feeling teachers have when reading a piece of written work in which every sentence is grammatically correct , and yet there is something not quite right . |
6 | It is true that personal ownership of some kinds of wealth is declining — but our focus is on assets under the control of individuals so that we can understand the effects of wealth on class position . |
7 | The record £700,000 buy said : ‘ I 've been missing chances and I can understand the fans ' frustrations but this goal should help . ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Emotionally , most of us can understand the sentiments of the Pyrenean village which decided to block its public water fountain , so that not even the thirsty cyclists touring the region should have any incentive to pass through it . |
10 | I can understand the publishers ’ point of view : they 're fed up with booksellers buying 20,000 and returning 18,000 . |
11 | HAVING lost four general elections I can understand the socialists being busy and trying to scare the electorate with a terror story every day . |
12 | The decision involved the total reduction of this large hilly area , and one can understand the arguments and counter arguments among Nero and his advisers ; was Britain worth yet further military effort in the face of growing hostility and bitterness ? |