Example sentences of "bring to the text " in BNC.

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1 No allowance is made for the separate contribution that the reader himself might bring to the text , and that might help to determine its meaning and effect .
2 But if one is not fundamentalist ( and not simply working as a literary critic ) then there are questions which need to be brought to the text .
3 It is clear from these brief analyses that the nature and scope of the context that is constructed for each individual poem does not simply depend on the choice of deictic expressions in the text , but rather results from the combined effect of a wide range of variables , including the content of the text as a whole , and the attitudes and experiences that readers bring to the text or develop during reading .
4 From the above it is evident that the quality of a reading experience does not relate entirely to the quality of the reading material , but that it partly relates to those things the reader brings to the text .
5 Firstly , the text is plural in itself with different sub-texts , and secondly , the reader brings to the text a plurality of texts .
6 Stubbs cites many other examples of how written language may involve structural ambiguity so that making grammatical sense of it depends on context and the knowledge the reader brings to the text ( e.g. ibid. p. 59 ) .
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