Example sentences of "[adv] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not rightly understand how the medical men could not save him after the accident since you say the cut seemed small and did not appear to trouble him but I have heard that for the blood to be poisoned it takes only a pin-prick and that a cut where there is manure about can have this effect if not noticed . |
| 2 | Even when I could n't rightly understand him , I always knew that at the heart of his talk there was summat good — sum mat true . |
| 3 | The reason for a lot of these premature deaths was that their owners did not sufficiently understand the importance of cash flow . |
| 4 | Russell J. then said that ‘ Mrs. Jones did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document ’ but repeated that ‘ the absence of independent advice is fatal to the claim . ’ |
| 5 | In the latter case this was notwithstanding a finding that the wife ‘ did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document . ’ |
| 6 | They will perhaps understand even better if they pay particular attention to the fine details of every movement . |
| 7 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 8 | I studied all over again those marvellous descriptions and illustrations , and you can perhaps understand my growing excitement at the notion that I might now actually undertake a motoring trip myself around that same part of the country . |
| 9 | But you will perhaps understand that there was a natural tendency on my part , in asking what was after all a generous favour from my employer , to hint that there was a good professional motive behind my request . |
| 10 | One can perhaps understand why John Keats , ’ writing his first mature work of poetry , managed to confuse Balboa with Cortez ; a young and sensitive man , Keats may well have balked at including a figure capable of such wanton cruelty in a sonnet devoted to such tender sentiments . |
| 11 | ‘ So you see , dear Therese , when I learned you were to come here , and then I saw you , exactly the same as you were twenty years ago , you can perhaps understand how I felt … ’ |
| 12 | Now you 're obviously I mean most people are but you can obviously understand better think better if they 're more practical |
| 13 | Her family did not much understand gardening either , and took little pleasure in the fruit of their unskilled , social labours ; as far back as she could remember , Clara could recollect her mother 's perpetual nagging at her father to cut the lawn , her father 's occasional outburst of resentment against the boys who trampled on the borders . |
| 14 | ‘ Also , if you allow the dog to sit on your settee , then replace that settee with a new one you do n't want the dog to sit on , you must not expect it to suddenly understand why it can not sit there . ’ |
| 15 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 16 | My excuse is that one can only understand the unknown in terms of the known . |
| 17 | But as a manager you must not only understand the appraisal scheme but also adapt it to your own needs . |
| 18 | The counsellor must not only understand that this is the way the counsellee 's life is predicted and determined , but has eventually to help the individual develop a more positive set of expectations . |
| 19 | While Richard was fuming away , his mother calmly informed him that he would probably only understand when he had children of his own . |
| 20 | This makes the special position of the maternal uncle seem even more anomalous , and led Junod to suppose that we could only understand this peculiar relationship if we assumed that it represented an anachronistic throwback or ‘ survival ’ of an earlier matriarchal stage . |
| 21 | This information is complex and therefore it must be imparted in a language and form that the client can not only understand but also is able to remember . |
| 22 | In other words , we can only understand the difference between the public and the private by understanding the reasons for drawing the distinction . |
| 23 | Consequently , we can only understand behaviour in organizations , and , hence , how to manage them , by understanding human cognitive processes and how they influence human behaviour . |
| 24 | In an eminently Benjaminian vein , Kienholz has said that one can only understand a ‘ society by going through its junk stores and flea markets ’ . |
| 25 | Patrick could only understand one word of the shouted order and that word was ‘ hostage ’ . |
| 26 | She nodded her head vigorously and chattered gaily though I could only understand half of what she said . |
| 27 | Because we can only understand it at a level of artificial instrumentation , and mathematical calculations on paper , we find it hard to imagine a little animal doing it in its head . |
| 28 | I would better understand this type of ‘ high-tech ’ approach if you demolished the whole of Trafalgar Square and started again with a single architect responsible for the entire layout . |
| 29 | The-CAB door may have been officially ‘ open ’ but minorities were not accepting the invitation , It was felt that the way to remedy the situation was by recruiting more black advice workers so that black clients would feel more comfortable and so that black workers could help white workers to better understand black clients . |
| 30 | It provides a valid purpose for visiting schools on a regular basis which , coincidentally , allows business and higher education to better understand the workings of schools . |