Example sentences of "could [not/n't] understand a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in five adults could not understand a simple job advert or subtract £17.89 from £20 to calculate the change from a shopping bill . |
| 2 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 3 | A study in 1987 showed that 44 per cent of adults could not understand a basic fire safety notice . |
| 4 | And I said , or he said , I spent half an hour on the phone , trying to study , he said , she was from Ireland , he said , I could n't understand a bloody word she was saying . |
| 5 | We could n't understand a blind thing when she tried to explain to us . |