Example sentences of "the reader is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without comparative material , the reader is in serious difficulty about knowing whether to agree with this three-way discriminative judgement . |
| 2 | A characteristic two pages of the text are given to Corot 's landscapes , five pictures being cited , though the reader is less fortunate than the lecture audience , as only two are illustrated . |
| 3 | The reader is thus relying on Friedlander 's eye . |
| 4 | Perhaps the reader is now in a position to understand what Piaget intended when he said that infants ‘ construct ’ reality through action . |
| 5 | The reader is both astonished and utterly convinced , as he is later on in the interview when Porfiry plays the dangerous game of saying he has got no real proof , he 's going on hunch and ‘ psychology ’ — so Raskolnikov had better confess . |
| 6 | Derrida or one of his disciples is to feel that the mystification and intimidation of the reader is the ultimate aim of the enterprise . ’ |
| 7 | The reader is told that founder John Fowler ‘ took the romantic spirit of late eighteenth-century decoration , the simplicity of rural life with its celebration of nature , and fashioned it into a style of its own . ’ |
| 8 | The reader is never bored — but could be disappointed that the book does not go beyond its 120 pages . |
| 9 | The reader is faced with a renunciation both of the sexuality bound up with primitive rites and , for the moment at least , of modern sexuality . |
| 10 | The reader is led gently through the history of art and the details of optical science to appreciate their interrelationship . |
| 11 | All the time the reader is reminded that he is reading , confronted with his own reactions , reminded to keep his distance , forced into sceptical attitudes by an author determined that nothing shall appear easy or comfortable . |
| 12 | Scanning the names of judges , senior policemen , politicians , journalists and hoodlums , together with the abrupt manner of their disposal — shot , strangled , dissolved in acid , fed to pigs — the reader is left in little doubt that , although today 's Mafia may have grown into a global enterprise , it is still a long way from joining the ranks of the world 's leading multinationals . |
| 13 | The reader is always aware that although he knows and mostly likes the people he is writing about , he is not necessarily taken in by their ideas . |
| 14 | I suspect that the reader is by now getting confused or even angry . |
| 15 | While the pace of research in this subject has meant that the most recent work is not included , the reader is directed towards the most active research groups and the most commonly used journals . |
| 16 | The reader is also informed that it is not normally possible to obtain high resolution on NMR spectra from solid samples . |
| 17 | Whether the reader is willing or able , or even desires , to adopt to some degree the approaches put forward will be decided in large part by his or her wider set of beliefs and understanding concerning the nature of schools , schooling and education . |
| 18 | Each group is illustrated in the plates by a typical species , but of course all the groups contain many species , and any specimen the reader is likely to find will probably differ from the one chosen for illustration in several details . |
| 19 | Although Mill may have been thinking of the romantic poet speaking gloomily to himself , here Leapor holds out the prospect of good gossip , and the reader is set to overhear the conversation : |
| 20 | It is evident from a perusal of the ‘ legitimizing ’ commentary provided by the novelists themselves that the reader is being encouraged to ‘ naturalize ’ the texts along the lines suggested . |
| 21 | Each of the 30 stories in the book bears a relation , sometimes strong sometimes tenuous , to a place on the schematized map with which the reader is presented when he/she opens the volume . |
| 22 | There has been in the 1980s in Italy , as elsewhere , a revival of historical narrative in which , however , the reader is not allowed to take the authenticity and authority of the historical material for granted . |
| 23 | The novel proves that knowledge is possible , but also that it is in a sense artificial : it does not come from the past , historical knowledge in particular can not simply be uncovered , laid bare and put out to view ( or rather , the novelist can no longer create the illusion that the past is speaking for itself ) ; it is a construction of the past , and the reader is conscious of , and in compliance with , the careful disposition and organization of the disparate elements that go to make up the whole edifice . |
| 24 | The new role assigned to the reader is defined in Julio Cortázar 's Hopscotch by the writer Morelli : |
| 25 | Otherwise the reader is left wondering ‘ Who on earth is she or he ? ’ |
| 26 | A reading of McClellan 's own works on stock control is essential if the reader is to gain a balanced view of the system . |
| 27 | In what follows the reader is made to identify with Bill as murderer , and as haunted and hunted man , dying finally by accidental hanging in sight of a vengeful crowd on Jacob 's Island . |
| 28 | The reader is seeing a benign gardener , a cartoon Adam with his trousers tied up with string , who gets his lettuces in on time and knows a Delphinium from a Campanula . |
| 29 | The book assumes that by now the reader is accustomed to disappointment and knows more about the tragedy of defeat than the drunken elixir of triumph . |
| 30 | There are a number of fairly minor conventions and devices used , especially in the legal profession — the ‘ limit of legal memory ‘ , for example , being 3 September 1189 , the start of the reign of King Richard I — and the reader is referred to the list of printed works in the next section . |