Example sentences of "do [not/n't] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , I do not understand how anyone can possibly think that a menu which features one fat-laden course after another — foie gras , creamy soup , fat-wrapped lamb , pan-fried potatoes , cheese and more cream in the mousse — is a well-planned menu . |
| 2 | Problems arise because many pilots do not understand much about spinning . |
| 3 | I do not understand ! |
| 4 | I am convinced that many students often do not understand what is being said in teaching situations , though they become adept at pretending to , as they do not wish to lose face . |
| 5 | There is , I have found , some gentle entertainment to be had in discussion with publishers ' representatives , observing the wide-eyed eagerness with which they greet potentially saleable ideas , and their clenched , wary , glazed-eyes response to proposals they feel negative about , or perhaps do not understand . |
| 6 | Media : Return of the six-gun saga : Modern actors can not ride and young viewers do not understand the cowboy code , but a revival of the western looms on the horizon , John Lichfield says |
| 7 | I do not understand the motives , beliefs and values of terrorists . |
| 8 | It was like Frazer 's looking into the ‘ abysm of time ’ , but it was a vision only imperfectly appreciated by Charlie Mears , as the narrator of ‘ The Finest Story in the World ’ emphasizes : ‘ Above all , he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds ; and he would retain that ignorance , for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek . ’ |
| 9 | But , CIPP said , ‘ a number of officers we interviewed do not understand these needs . ’ |
| 10 | They say they do not understand why their headmaster is so intent on persecuting them when 20 Jewish students do not attend school on Saturdays , a normal part of the school week in France . |
| 11 | We know that nutrients added to the water by humans make the algae grow , this combined with the sunlight causes blooms , but beyond that we do not understand much about the toxins . ’ |
| 12 | According to students , company recruitment presentations were often ‘ downright boring ’ , made either by people who do not understand engineering , or engineers who are ‘ past it ’ . |
| 13 | According to students , company recruitment presentations were often ‘ downright boring ’ , made either by people who do not understand engineering , or engineers who are ‘ past it ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Those who blur over that distinction do not understand its crucial importance for the successful handling of a whole series of intractable problems of which this is just , at the moment , the worst . ’ |
| 15 | The plan is not a blueprint for the future , it stresses , merely the starting signal for a process in which dialogue and choices made by individuals , private industry and government will shape the environmental programmes : ‘ What we want to do , in the realization that we do not understand all the relationships , is to indicate the conditions under which an environmental quality can be attained that will provide future generations with as many options as possible . ’ |
| 16 | It occurred to Hobbes that since knowledge , whether systematically developed or not , begins with sense-perception , we should not pride ourselves on knowing much if we do not understand what sense-perception actually is . |
| 17 | Interaction between the corpuscles of an almond and those of our taste-buds results in the production , in our minds , of a certain idea , that of sweetness ; though quite how such causation between the physical and the mental takes place is , Locke says , a mystery which we do not understand . |
| 18 | They even get angry and suggest these are lies put about by foreigners who do not understand how deeply attuned they are to Mother Africa . |
| 19 | I simply do not understand why Britain should provide a free international health service or why the health service should not benefit from outside contributions . |
| 20 | ( At a meeting I attended recently about Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses someone said , ‘ You do not understand how we have been insulted ; it is as though someone had raped my daughter . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I do not understand you . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I am sorry , I simply do not understand , I can not follow what you are saying at all , ’ Alida Thorne said . |
| 23 | I do not understand what they are talking about , and I do not have the knowledge to take up their suggestions . |
| 24 | It is seldom simple and even the more experienced operators make mistakes , often because they do not understand the difference between source — what the original sound is like — and acoustics — what happens to it when it leaves the loudspeakers . |
| 25 | Channell remembered a curious phone call from him — not an everyday occurrence , and Channell was on respectful tenterhooks — — in which the president began : ‘ I just do not understand Tip O'Neill . |
| 26 | Also I do not understand . |
| 27 | I do not understand the memory . |
| 28 | In answering such questions , computer simulation is helpful , because you can not simulate something you do not understand . |
| 29 | Bartram s query regarding Kalm s American observations was dealt with : Miller had not seen whether Linnaeus had included them in his Species of plants , but mentioned that Kalm had published them himself ; ‘ in the Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it , so I have not been curious enough to send for the book , nor do I hear any good character of it . ’ |
| 30 | They do not understand each other . |