Example sentences of "can understand the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spirit of Romance is undertaken on the principle that Pound never ceased to hammer home , notably in How To Read and The ABC of Reading : the principle that no one can understand the history of poetry in English unless he or she takes note of poetry in , or responsibly translated out of , other languages than English . |
| 2 | I can understand the caution in the light of the Hillsborough disaster , but the charges per officer are outrageous . ’ |
| 3 | They can understand the companies . |
| 4 | Located in shopping centres , supermarkets , offices and streets the kiosks , which use touch-sensitive screens and can understand the human voice , will provide instant access to information on almost anything from weather and travel data to goods available in shops . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is more open — staff can understand the basis on which allocations are made . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We can understand the heartbeat of Augustine , Bernard of Clairvaux , Julian of Norwich , Teresa of Avila , Martin Luther or John Calvin , just as we know our own fears and our longings . |
| 9 | If we can understand the cellular forces that bring about changes in the shape of the embryo then we can begin to ask further questions . |
| 10 | Newsam who wrote the piece before the National Curriculum and its assessment procedures were planned ended the piece by remarking with irony ‘ As with any good joke , a child can understand the fable . |
| 11 | Biological science can not tell us of the mind of a creature any more than it can understand the nature and functioning of our human minds . |
| 12 | Mr Martin Kemp , the musician turned schauspieler , can understand the ‘ high ’ of serial killers having experienced those ‘ adrenalines ’ ; and Ms Roseanne Barr , the person of size , would not ‘ mind the odd nude scene ’ of herself . |
| 13 | Seriously , one can understand the Archbishop 's concern to retain the best of the tradition : a liturgy involving elements of worship ; confession ; intercession ; Bible reading ; biblical preaching and blessing . |
| 14 | But if the doubt is compound , you will find that although a doubter can understand the answer , he may be reluctant to accept it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For , whereas everyone can see the sense of avoiding deep or rough seas , fewer people can understand the unhappy individual who is so terrified of water in any form that he or she can not even bear to wash their hands . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They condemn as absurd , lessons that teach children about homosexuality years before they can understand the meaning of the word . |
| 19 | The record £700,000 buy said : ‘ I 've been missing chances and I can understand the fans ' frustrations but this goal should help . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ( In exactly the same way , congenitally blind people can understand the physics of vision , but are unable to conceive what it would be like to experience seeing , for example , different colours . |
| 22 | So you can understand the trepidation with which your kitten greets , some would say , our less civilised climate . |
| 23 | Trees and directed graphs come naturally to them ; they can understand the use of simple grammars to describe document classes and readily appreciate issues of object-oriented design , inheritance , and dangling cross-references . |
| 24 | Children with a mental age of 3 years and above can understand the principle and benefit from its use . |
| 25 | Redhead Sonia , currently enjoying a Top 40 hit with Boogie Nights , says : ‘ One of the problems is no one can understand the foreign songs and the contest is suffering as a result . |
| 26 | I CAN understand the grumpiness of Prince Charles . |
| 27 | You can understand the attitude from the way he still says ‘ punk rock ’ instead of ‘ punk ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | It is also , simply because it is critical , a sort of potential morality — even an actual one — and no one can understand the Age of Criticism without gasping that , like the Crusades or the Reformation , its prime purpose was a far-reaching reform of the human spirit . |
| 30 | I can understand the annoyance at the high cost of premium rate calls from telephone boxes . |