Example sentences of "we do [adv] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is a complex thing that we do not yet understand , we can come to understand it in terms of simpler parts that we do already understand . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't understand why they are so bashful , ’ he added . |
| 3 | They 're all in the mind ; experiences like abductions are psychological states that we do n't understand . |
| 4 | But we are not going to condemn merely because we do n't understand . |
| 5 | The truth is that it is a much more difficult task than that , not least because we do n't understand as yet how people comprehend language . |
| 6 | Most of us have heard of them even if we do n't understand exactly what they are . |
| 7 | If we do n't understand the psychological processes that form the bases of performance on the tasks that we use in our behavioural studies our chances of understanding how the brain controls behaviour are limited . |
| 8 | " We do n't understand flowers , we can never remember their names . |
| 9 | " We do n't understand you , " he said . |
| 10 | It might seem that an argument to the effect that we do n't understand the propositions we claim to know must be local rather than global . |
| 11 | And even if we do n't understand the argument , we surely understand the conclusion ; and so the conclusion must be false . |
| 12 | If you look around there a lot more physicists who are Christian than people taking the arts subjects and I reckon it could be that the arts bombard you with a lot of different views and maybe you find it hard to crystallize to say what you want ; whereas in physics we get told precisely the answer and we realize that we do n't understand it totally . |
| 13 | And it is n't that we do n't understand ; |
| 14 | I think we can all get the flavour of what the message is about even if we do n't understand all the language . |
| 15 | We do n't understand it . |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't understand life , do we ? ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean , it 's here and its so sweet and we do n't understand it . ’ |
| 18 | But act on what , do you see , this is what we do n't understand ? |
| 19 | We 're , we 're , I 'll tell you what , we we 're stuck here , every time you say something , we do n't understand , Rosemary , we 'll we 'll get a check out . |
| 20 | We do n't understand . |
| 21 | He says asthma has been becoming increasingly common for the last 20 years for reasons we do n't understand . |
| 22 | ‘ She says : ‘ We abuse our bodies and , when things go wrong , we do n't understand why . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We do not understand that we have become the slaves of our desire and have created a net around ourselves , by our thoughts and actions . |
| 28 | The whole question of ancient alignment practices remains an important enigma : we do not understand the British cursus-type features ( earthen avenues ) or stone-rows , much less the Andean lines . |
| 29 | It may be modern unwillingness to accept that there were activities in ancient societies which we do not understand that accounts for the embarrassing silence of archaeology on the Andean lines and its stubborn resistance to a proper treatment of the ley theory in Britain . |
| 30 | 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 . |