Example sentences of "understand [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His target of attack here is positivism , which we can understand as the identification of natural science with knowledge itself . |
| 2 | But do n't you understand about that — that tout ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The basic thing one must understand about these decisions is that they are desperately disturbing and agonising for the parents . |
| 4 | One of the most frequent reactions to the observation that many people do not understand about mental handicap is to question why they should . |
| 5 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |
| 6 | what does the individual understand about communicating ? |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't understand about the unicorn . |
| 8 | If he did not understand about the unicorn or about the many and the one he understood Marian still less when she talked about simple things being difficult . |
| 9 | Macbeth is a classic case of a man who does not understand about the co-operation between free will and luck . |
| 10 | How can he ever understand about nomes ? |
| 11 | Masklin would be the first to admit that he did n't understand about jets and engines and machines , so maybe that was why he did n't worry about travelling in them . |
| 12 | Before you can understand about AIDS , you need to know something about how the human body works to keep us healthy . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's so much I do n't understand about all this , ’ she said . |
| 14 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 15 | He does n't understand about money or business or politics or machines ; he thinks black vinyl gives a better sound than CDs . |
| 16 | To help you understand about different kinds of reading . |
| 17 | Later that day he drew a note of credit on an obliging Mr Crump for fifty pounds , explaining that his brother , ‘ The Earl ’ , and himself were re-organising their banking arrangements , he would understand about these matters , certain they did these things better in Liverpool , great embarrassment . |
| 18 | There were so many things I did n't really understand about people , about life . |
| 19 | For one thing we do n't know what they 'd charge , and for another they might not understand about the Time Fire . |
| 20 | He added with a hint of apology : ‘ I do n't understand about this sort of thing . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You got ta understand about America ’ , an old black man had told him in Washington DC , ‘ it 's a fucking capitalist nightmare . ’ |
| 22 | They do n't understand about spies and I expect they eat merchants . ’ |
| 23 | Now , did everybody understand that ? do you understand about the weaning complex ? |
| 24 | There is one thing I can not understand about the Labour party policy . |
| 25 | Whichever approach is adopted ( that of the SDPP or of the School Management Task Force ) the head has to decide whether it is practicable in his or her school to assume that the more that teachers are asked to do in the way of auditing , laying plans , implementing them and reviewing them , the more they will understand about the effectiveness of pupils ' learning . |
| 26 | There was an awful lot he did n't understand about this strange world . |
| 27 | He was quite happy for Willi to sit through some of Therese 's practice sessions , for Willi 's overwhelming admiration for Therese 's voice — and Willi , in spite of his romantic overview , did understand about voice — was doing wonders for Therese 's confidence . |
| 28 | Uncle Willi , she was sure , would totally understand about being in love , even though he was Georg 's father , but he would n't understand that you had to be in love on the one night of his party , not when you 'd had all those other evenings with Gesner . |
| 29 | And what did you understand about the level of force to be used ? |
| 30 | ‘ What do you understand about anything — especially love ? ’ she found herself demanding . |