Example sentences of "not understand the [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't argue , but many died from exhaustion every year through not understanding the strengths of weakness . |
| 2 | This is not to suggest that the average speaker of English does not understand the differences of meaning . |
| 3 | More than 9000 children were seriously injured last year and research shows that young children do not understand the dangers of traffic , or how to avoid them . |
| 4 | I can not understand the Secretary of State is looking perplexed . |
| 5 | But we do not understand the nuances of bird , animal , insect or other creatures , communication , because we do not possess their inward experience of mental meaning . |
| 6 | Anyone who does otherwise does not understand the force of reason . ’ |
| 7 | They did not understand the nature of honour or how to win glory in battle . |
| 8 | He does not understand the meaning of discretion . |
| 9 | Barnett had been a founder of COS in 1869 but , largely due to his experience in a desperately poor Whitechapel parish , he had become convinced that the COS did not understand the meaning of poverty and the helplessness which it bred . |
| 10 | He did not understand the shout of laughter the Frenchman gave . |
| 11 | Now everybody talks like this : if you can not understand the language of sport , you probably can not follow American politics . |
| 12 | Sheikh Hamed al-Bitawi , a prayer leader at Jerusalem 's al-Aqsa mosque , called on Arabs to quit the Middle East talks because Israel ‘ does not understand the language of peace . ’ |
| 13 | This is one of the paradoxes of the educational drama situation — that we have trained a generation of teachers who have not understood the nature of drama itself . |