Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] the reader " in BNC.

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1 The limitation of these simple answers is that they suggest that the reader has a relatively , if not completely , passive role .
2 It is recommended that the reader refers to Satir ( 1988 , Chapter 10 ) for a user-friendly account of systems theory .
3 The writer of this sentence does n't know whether the reader is male or female , but has chosen to use " his " as a GENERIC to mean " male or female " , overriding the normal use of " his " as a gender-specific pronoun meaning " male " .
4 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 .
5 I hope that the reader will feel that I have satisfactorily dealt with the first .
6 I hope that the reader is as awestruck as I am , and as William Paley would have been , by these bat stories .
7 It is not , however , assumed that the reader is familiar with ( either implementation of ) Guide .
8 Do n't assume that the reader already understands your argument or automatically shares your viewpoint .
9 Reference , in the textual rather than the semantic sense , occurs when the reader has to retrieve the identity of what is being talked about by referring to another expression in the immediate context .
10 So vivid a response by a great poet must inspire respect and possibly a curiosity to see if the reader can match the experience .
11 Because the novel relies on prior literary knowledge , each individual reading will necessarily be the idiosyncratic result of an interaction between the proper names given and the reader 's capacity to ‘ round out ’ these names by furnishing them with personalities and circumstantial details ( which may vary considerably even between readers who have read the same texts ) .
12 A standard fault is to assume that the reader is familiar with the jargon which the designer habitually uses .
13 I suspect that the reader is by now getting confused or even angry .
14 And let us hope that the reader , on summing-up this look into the past at the Gorbals of yester-year , may say : ‘ These were real people , ordinary men and women , whose passage through the Gorbals not only added colour to a drab area of this Scottish city , but whose presence may remain a lasting influence for good . ’
15 The graffitist who scrawls : Mr Kipling writes exceedingly good books will hope that the reader knows of Rudyard Kipling the writer ; but the joke is lost unless the reader also knows the syntactic frame of the advertising slogan Mr Kipling bakes exceedingly good cakes .
16 Bateson follows Richards , Bickersteth , and others in arguing that such experience is psychologically valuable provided that the reader approaches it as " patient " rather than active interrogator .
17 The description of feelings and emotions are so well portrayed that the reader is able to feel with the character at every twist and turn of their lives .
18 Carpenter and Just [ 1983 ] showed that syntactically ambiguous words take longer to process than syntactically unambiguous words , indicating that the reader is trying to determine the syntactic role of the ambiguous word while fixating it .
19 Comprehension level is attained when the reader not only decodes the words but also understands what the words are saying .
20 Whereas word recognition can occur without the skilled reader thinking about it , sentence reconstruction can not , and it is to this component subskill that the reader 's attention should be directed .
21 It is hoped that the reader , after assessing these areas , will have a basis for evaluating the information system in his/her own institution .
22 It is hoped that the reader will use these perspectives to reassess practice in his/her school to meet the challenge of the 1990s .
23 It is to be hoped that the reader has now some idea of the problems confronting LDCs .
24 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 .
25 In writing this book we have assumed that the reader either owns or has access to copies of both Warhammer and Warhammer Battle Magic .
26 An extensive treatment of this issue is not the concern of this book , and it is assumed that the reader has already made a study of it elsewhere , usually in some introductory study of economics .
27 It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the elements of thermodynamics , statistical mechanics and elasticity to the level of an honours degree in physics or chemistry but since continuum mechanics and viscoelasticity are not commonly found in such courses a detailed account of them is give in Chaps 2 and 3 , Chap .
28 It is intended for all levels of user , however it is assumed that the reader is familiar with LIFESPAN and its operation .
29 It is intended for all levels of user , however it is assumed that the reader is familiar with LIFESPAN and its operation .
30 The User Guide is intended for all levels of user , however it is assumed that the reader is familiar with LIFESPAN and its operation .
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