Example sentences of "[conj] the reader [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although tension may be built up , fictitious treatment usually involves the releasing of that tension ( by the ‘ happy ending ’ , for example ) or the reader can terminate the situation by lifting his or her eyes from the page . |
| 2 | Consider in this light the following example : It is unlikely that Shakespeare or the majority of writers in construction of their work imagined the twentieth-century reader or considered the possibility that the reader would be of another race or colour than his own ( the exception to this assumption can be found in later twentieth-century writers ) . |
| 3 | In his London Shadows , Godwin removes the facade from a house ( Fig. 32a–d ) , so that the reader may see for himself how many people are crammed in behind it . |
| 4 | So that the reader may appreciate the real motivation behind this exercise , it is necessary to give background information on HSDU , which serves as a valuable source of most of my experience . |
| 5 | It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation . |
| 6 | The examples in this section are Janus-like , in that the reader may interpret them metaphorically but , in the light of the examples in the previous section , it seems to me that we should interpret them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 7 | The bulk of this chapter is , therefore , written with the possibility in mind that the reader might use such a system to help identify gaps in any present personal library , or to lay the structure for a proposed collection of books . |
| 8 | The decision that Shakespeare faced hundreds of times — whether to put his words , as Dryden expressed it , into verse or into ‘ the other harmony of prose ’ — is one that the reader ought always to be alert to , for each decision signals an element of dramatic meaning that we can yet recover . |
| 9 | It is hoped that the reader will use these perspectives to reassess practice in his/her school to meet the challenge of the 1990s . |
| 10 | We will now examine the commonest and most important kinds of fossils , the kinds that the reader will be able to find when he starts a collection . |
| 11 | One advantage of doing this at this stage is that the reader will probably feel able to devote a little extra effort to learning this terminology as the statements of the theorems themselves will take little remembering — many of them should be fairly familiar to him already . |
| 12 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 13 | In essence , this is the strategy we shall adopt ( except that the reader will be invited to act as his own informant : we shall not be concerned with problems and methods of field investigation ) . |
| 14 | It is likely that the reader will ask at this stage : ‘ Is all this magical and mystical stuff worth recording ! ’ or , as I have often been asked myself : ‘ Do you really believe in it ? ’ |
| 15 | I hope that the reader will feel that I have satisfactorily dealt with the first . |
| 16 | The aspects of accounting introduced here are discussed briefly so that the reader will gain an elementary understanding of them . |
| 17 | It is hoped that the reader will participate to some extent in this activity by sharing the perspective of the workshop team who worked on this text . |
| 18 | Of course , there is no way that the reader can answer any of these questions with certainty , but they should be borne in mind . |
| 19 | Also its high resolution colour display means that the reader can use computer graphics to enhance articles or illustrations within the publication . |
| 20 | In the remainder of the book we intend to examine macroeconomic theory and policy in order that the reader can appreciate how government decisions in the area of fiscal and monetary policy affect the economy in general and the banking and financial system in particular . |
| 21 | The minutiae of naval , political and social life are introduced with the utmost literary tact so that the reader can enjoy the piquancy of surprise and can sense the author 's secret enjoyment of allusions which give the books their total authenticity . |
| 22 | It is usual to write a short title to each memo in order that the reader can see what it is about at a glance |
| 23 | She stresses that the reader should not focus on the behaviour of the mother in the novel to the exclusion of all else ; ‘ It 's very important not to see a novel as summing up the entire state of women — yes there are weak women but there are also very strong women . |
| 24 | A small number of faint grid lines ( or lines of white space on solid bar charts ) may sometimes be added if it is important that the reader should be able to gauge precisely the level of particular points . |
| 25 | However , the label ’ semantic ’ will continue to be used , although it is intended that the reader should not restrict its denotation to the strict linguistic sense . |
| 26 | It suggests that the reader should know what inspired Rimbaud , etc . |
| 27 | Every periodic wave is equivalent to some unique harmonic spectrum and it is suggested that the reader should draw the spectrum corresponding to a square wave as an exercise . |
| 28 | Burgess 's Class 1 prose is transparent in the sense that the reader need not become consciously aware of the medium through which sense is conveyed to him . |
| 29 | Although the reader may be entertained by debating the correctness of this analogy , its inclusion is intended to underline the principle that the design of a study and the analysis of the resulting information are intimately related . |
| 30 | So vivid a response by a great poet must inspire respect and possibly a curiosity to see if the reader can match the experience . |