17. Глагольные предикаты, передача причины следствием

1. The summit in Washington threw light on changes in public opinion.

3. Are the state leaders capable of tuning in to these moods and translat­ing them into practical measures.

4. We have not yet been able to improve or stabilize the national eco­nomic situation. Moreover, many negative processes are gaining momentum.

5. Currents of rhetoric drowned what each of us should do right away to insure for ourselves a better future.

6. The economy and politics go hand in hand.

1. The best illustration − and the best refutation − of this explanation, dear to the hearts of many liberals, is in a joke which way told after the first World War.

8. Statistics, it is true, do not necessarily point to real historical processes.

9. The new policy came to light when the Rothschilds were no longer content to serve one particular government.

10. They tried, of course, to shift the balance to the advantage of their re­spective countries.

11. The war makes big business for the corporations.

12. The purpose of all this, public and private, was to bring the state and its citizens the general blessings of railroad induced economic growth.

13. Much more documentary material had become available in libraries and archives when the second addition appeared in 1958.

14. It achieved a classical institutional form in Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.

18. Глагольные предикаты, передача следствия причиной

1. The politicians find it especially difficult to leave behind the stereo­types and experience of the past.

2. To deny a nation the freedom of choice is to upset the unstable balance that has been achieved.

3. This does not mean that in a year or two we won't be able to signifi­cantly speed up economic development, remove social tensions and con­vince the people that we are heading in the right direction.

4. The new literature also draws strength from the ability to adapt to the conditions of free self-expression.

5. Socialist realism preferred future to the present.

6. The wave of reaction that is now trying to clear up the way for a rightward shift will ebb away.

7. The question of how far a Brezhnev-era writer such as Georgy Markov believed in what he wrote was never asked, it seemed indecent.

8. The breakdown of feudal order had given rise to the new revolution­ary concept of equality, according to which "a nation within the nation" could no longer be tolerated.

9. Nazi "nationalism" had more than one aspect in common with nation­alist propaganda in other places, which is also used only to feed the preju­dices of the masses.

10. Such discrepancies between cause and effect outrage our common sense.

11. If you think that on graduating a college one becomes specialist over­night, you are greatly mistaken. Don 7 imagine such a vain thing.

12. The great writers of the 19th century tell good stories.

13. Up to now, the signals have been mixed.

19. Глагольные предикаты, передача начальной фазы действия конечной или наоборот

1. Passengers used to hang off the straps right up until the 1960s, when the last trams of this design finally disappeared from the city streets.

2. We set out to curb the powers of the economic bureaucracy, but look what has happened.

3. Nowadays it is recognized that the two countries have turned their backs on confrontation and are prepared to leave it behind them.

4. Notwithstanding the passage of time, the novels retain their fascination.

5. Women man ships on Caspian See.

6. Yury Bondarev likens the new forces in Russian literature to the Nazi troops who overran the Soviet Union in 1941.

7. Video cassettes of seminars could be send out to local colleges.

8. The mass reader, starving for information, devoured these works with genuine enthusiasm.

9. Village prose arose in the post-Stalinist years.

10. Their decline has resulted in tangible changes in the literary and so­cial hierarchy of values.

11. Only the experts could tell the difference between this and the real Bresh trams brought from England in 1907.