Example sentences of "can understand [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And you can understand her ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | No I can understand her not having , not wanting kids for a few years but , ca n't you ? |
| 3 | A see whether you can understand her . |
| 4 | Often a mother can understand her daughter 's needs , if not in detail at least in broad terms , and at the same time she knows that these needs are in conflict with traditional honour and respectability . |
| 5 | I can understand her bitterness — ’ |
| 6 | One can understand their zeal . |
| 7 | But you can understand It 's not excusable really but you can understand their impatience when people c consistently do n't tell them what they 're going to do . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The first might be said to be context- and task-independent : we can understand what a sequence of symbols is meant to represent , without understanding the context within which those symbols might be put to use . |
| 10 | If you can understand what your apathy is about you will realize that the only way to overcome it is to act . |
| 11 | They say my accent is 'orrible , but at least I can understand what they 're saying on the pitch and suss out their Machiavellian little games . ’ |
| 12 | In a curious way you can understand what is being said only by letting your mind slip into the same fuzzy state Shepherd 's must have been in when he spoke . |
| 13 | With a dentist one can understand what the chap is actually saying . |
| 14 | In the light of this passage we can interpret one of Wordsworth 's gnomic sayings — ‘ The Child is Father of the Man ’ — and can understand what the attractive childhood episodes are doing in Books i and ii ; they are now seen to be similar ‘ spots of time … enshrined … for future restoration ’ . |
| 15 | By picking off the documents that form the basis of the customer-supplier relationship one at a time , we can understand what we 're doing and become very effective very quickly . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So you can understand what a sacrifice it is your father is making in sending you to this school . |
| 18 | For nobody can understand what the Government is doing to clear up the economic mess it has created . |
| 19 | When they load or unload a ship they can understand what 's wanted . ’ |
| 20 | It is this ‘ something ’ that we need to investigate , because the more we can understand what turns stress on , the more we may be able to devise new and effective ways of turning it off . |
| 21 | The first is to provide simple descriptions of complex data so that we can understand what is going on in our experiments . |
| 22 | The two-stage compiler raises the intriguing possibility of gaining a direct C interface into Pick , but the company is adamant that the use of C rather than Flash Basic would be not only difficult , but also really naughty : ‘ that is not the intention ’ said one company official , adding ‘ we only mention the C interim step so that people can understand what is going on ’ — at least until , version 6.1 — of which , more later . |
| 23 | We can understand what Oakeshott meant when he stated that ‘ Hobbes is not an absolutist precisely because he is an authoritarian ’ . |
| 24 | The argument also assumes ( b ) that I can understand what it is for others to have mental states . |
| 25 | If you follow that , people can understand what you 're writing . |
| 26 | The reason we can understand what we are hearing is because our brain can fill in the gaps . |
| 27 | Only a woman can understand what 's wrong , and there 's nothing any of you could do . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ’ I can understand what they were doing , ’ he says ’ They were obviously thinking of me . |
| 30 | I 've always been fascinated by bag ladies who choose to live on the street- I 've come to the point in my life where I can understand what makes them drop out . |