Example sentences of "[verb] the reader " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nizan 's ironic , chiding tone must ultimately be understood as a facet of a global strategy to compel the reader to greater self-awareness . |
| 2 | I do not pretend that the following list is comprehensive and I shall give it without much comment , allowing the reader to form his own judgement as to its significance . |
| 3 | Remember that it is better to kill the reader with kindness by selecting information for him than to batter him to death in a flurry of factual blows ! |
| 4 | An examination of Volume II will quickly reveal the unfinished nature of parts of the material , but there is sufficient there to enable the reader to arrive at an understanding of Marx 's ideas . |
| 5 | And that something should either be accurately stated in the article , or at least referred to with sufficient clarity to enable the reader to identify it . |
| 6 | To enable the reader to gain a good understanding of these methods of implementing monetary policy , we also outline the main functions of the more important financial institutions in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | The square brackets around Your Majesty in the English translation are presumably meant to alert the reader to the fact that the expression does not occur in the original , or that the translator is ‘ guessing ’ what might fill the subject slot in this case . |
| 8 | One procedure , favoured by Mario Vargas Llosa in particular , is to abandon a linear plot in favour of a disconnected narrative which confronts the reader with a world that is confusing , shifting and elusive . |
| 9 | It is also worth reminding the reader that searching for fraud is not the audit 's primary purpose . |
| 10 | It is interesting to see a professional historian reminding the reader explicitly of the relevance of his facts , analysis and discussion . |
| 11 | " The conclusion … marks the end , the rounding off , of an argument and its value lies both in reminding the reader succinctly of what has been written and in endeavouring to create , with the reader , a favourable impression and a disposition to treat favourably . " |
| 12 | Whereas the good introduction impresses , the poor one depresses , conditioning the reader to anticipate inaccuracy , poor understanding , irrelevancy , muddled thinking-all the qualities , in fact , which the experienced examiner has come to associate with the weak or poor response . " |
| 13 | Remarks The reader 's first comments on the above definition might well include : ( 1 ) What is the point of making 1.3.5(i) when the only two integers satisfying the property are 1 and -1 ? |
| 14 | The brilliant clarity of his prose , the steady forward pace , bring the reader close to the actions and moods of the travellers . |
| 15 | I do hope that I have encouraged any nervous knitters to have a try at using the reader . |
| 16 | As the author of the article , I would like to correct one or two impressions which your abridgement from the original , much longer , article may have given the reader . |
| 17 | However it is hoped that this has given the reader an appreciation of some of the issues involved . |
| 18 | Basically , the illustrations that are going to succeed with a particular readership by helping the reader to obtain meaning , will use those conventions mentioned earlier in the chapter to indicate , for example , depth ( perspective and three-dimensions ) and movement , which are within the understanding of that intended audience . |
| 19 | Before concluding this section it is worth drawing the reader 's attention to the so-called suicide , by hara-kiri , of the Japanese writer , Yukio Mishima . |
| 20 | Miller explained that lack of space prevented directions on specific culture of plants , but where necessary , he had referred the reader to the Dictionary . |
| 21 | The rheme is all there is in the clause and so it receives the reader 's undivided attention . |
| 22 | Of certain transvestites there Fanon is anxious to assure the reader of their masculinity , and that they lead ‘ normal sex lives ’ . |
| 23 | The varied articles presented introduce the reader to some of the most recent strands of linguistics and literary studies but they can not be thought to constitute a unified discipline . |
| 24 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
| 25 | This is a classic case of dramatic irony which alerts the reader to the fact that novels too are capable of mixing fantastic and realistic elements , that indeed the capacity to do so is one of their defining characteristics . |
| 26 | Ben-Porat clearly shows how literary tradition can prevail on the objective conceptualisation of reality and how it influences the reader 's weltanschauung . |
| 27 | Certainly the author of ‘ The Man Who Was King ’ for whom savages were interesting , if rather silly , became the reader of the romantically tinged Frazer , but essentially Eliot 's view of ‘ civilization ’ went deeper than gramophones . |
| 28 | When searching for the right adjective , bear in mind that your effect on the reader will be stronger if you can create physical sensation , if you can make the reader conjure up a colour , a texture , a smell or a sound , rather than using a word like ‘ soothing ’ , or ‘ lovely ’ or ( worst of all ) ‘ evocative ’ . |
| 29 | You know , that it helping to sort of make the reader er , the thing about . |
| 30 | Sometimes an intentionally condensed presentation ( e.g. Section 17.5 ) may ‘ make the reader think ’ , but such a tactic can be dangerously optimistic . |