Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as they understand or we have communicated to them , why we want them to do that . |
| 2 | So long as they understand that there 's this also the erm you know er said to me , Oh it 's just English sort of said differently . |
| 3 | ‘ Fine — just so long as they understand that I mean what I say . ’ |
| 4 | Just so long as we understand each other . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Good , ’ he said coldly , ‘ just so long as we understand each other . |
| 6 | The pragmatist might suggest that precision is fine only so long as everyone understands the term : in fact , Pulex irritans is less obviously a flea , than ‘ flea ’ . |
| 7 | I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected . |
| 8 | ‘ Ask by all means , so long as you understand how limited my freedom may be to answer . ’ |
| 9 | In so far as I understand the logic here , heterosexual sodomy is surrogate homosexuality and homosexual sodomy is surrogate heterosexuality — or rather surrogate heterosexual incestuous genital intercourse . |
| 10 | But the ability to produce such phrases does not constitute communicative competence in so far as I understand the concept ( Widdowson 1978 , 1979 , 1983 , 1984a , 1989 ) , or as discussed in , for example , Canale and Swain 1980 , and Bachman 1990 . |
| 11 | In so far as I understand this view , and it is not yet a matter of close textual criticism of a published account , I find it difficult to connect the commonsense properties of consciousness ( vague as they may be ) , with the notions of repair and debugging ( fundamental as those are to any account of intelligent mechanisms ) . |
| 12 | So far as I understand it my options are one of the following : |
| 13 | I am open to contradiction , but so far as I understand , the Association as such , played no direct part either in the recent increases in apprentices ' salaries , which were reviewed automatically , nor in the revival of their indenture , which is the result of a tortuous and painfully slow consideration by the Law Society . |
| 14 | One last matter please erm , so far as I understand that you 've not yet drafted the separate staff requirement for reconnaissance , I beg you pardon , reconnaissance equipment for Eurofighter two thousand . |
| 15 | Liban turned in her direction with a levelled spear , and it was only then that she understood she must escape . |
| 16 | Not particularly but I understand that er it is , you now have the whole of China which small areas erm relatively small areas , you 've now got the whole thing , I mean if you start initiating very radical reforms , as you say you do n't have the personnel or the resources to erm to prevent a , you know , a big change disruption . |
| 17 | The realisation that we teach children more effectively if we understand them fully and set them against the social and cultural conditions in which they live and grow , places an expectation upon the teacher which can not be prescribed by contract . |
| 18 | Absurdly , she felt hurt ; the more so because she understood his feelings about his name . |
| 19 | The old chestnut of fire safety came up again and I understand that they do talk about treatment standards but I do n't know what they say about them . |
| 20 | It was obviously different from the religion of Jesus , as far as we understand it , and also from the Jewish vision of St Paul , who had been the first to bring the semitic faith to the hellenistic world of the Roman empire . |
| 21 | Our efforts to meet the company have so far been unsuccessful , but as far as we understand from the AEU ( which has a single union agreement with Montupet ) , there are no special mechanisms to target recruitment and training on the unemployed and it is worth bearing in mind that the code of practice of the new Fair Employment Act puts the idea of the merit principle above that of equality of outcome or the achievement of social justice . |
| 22 | Her curiosity had been whetted rather than slaked , because Zambia could only tell it as far as SHe understood , and hirs was not a scientific mind by any standard . |
| 23 | As far as I understood , I was n't taking part in a vendetta against the German race . ’ |
| 24 | I explained , falteringly , my motives — at least , as far as I understood them myself . |
| 25 | As far as I understand it , it was Angela who pursued the interest in Tony DeFries . |
| 26 | As far as I understand from the gossip there 's nothing 'll come out of it by goin' to the polis ; it 's got to come from Parliament . |
| 27 | As far as I understand there is not real move to do anything about the current trend for teams to kick the ball from 22 to 22 . |
| 28 | When the union representative Alex Ross was asked by a Royal Commission whether he would " ask a woman to lock up a form ( sic ) " , he replied spontaneously , " Oh yes , they can do that as far as I understand " . |
| 29 | ‘ As far as I understand it , the individual actors made their own arrangements . ’ |
| 30 | My hon. Friend is in the same party as I am , as far as I understand . |