Example sentences of "it ignores the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ignores the real history of the press in Britain and so it paints a naïve picture of a conservative and debased medium which offers little real choice . |
| 2 | For if it relates to the BBC per se then it conveniently overlooks its seedier and more questionable aspects , whilst if it relates to some imaginary institution it ignores the real pressures on institutions which make them somehow less ideal than one would desire . |
| 3 | It ignores the major problems facing our planet . |
| 4 | However , our basic model may be criticized in advance of this discussion in so far as it ignores the monetary effects of fiscal decisions and so may overstate the case in favour of macroeconomic management through this route . |
| 5 | Again , while the idea that officials exercising delegated authority should be directly accountable to Parliament may seem logical , it ignores the political reality of government domination which has traditionally characterized executive/legislative relationships in Britain . |
| 6 | As McCrone put it : ‘ whatever government is in power in the United Kingdom , it ignores the regional problem at its own peril . ’ |
| 7 | I want to suggest that it is the centrality given to this concept of sexuality that constitutes a problem for historians , for it ignores the great variety of cultural patterns that history reveals , and the very different meanings given to what we blithely label as ‘ sexual activity ’ . |
| 8 | Jessop has argued , we think correctly , that this view is invalid because it ignores the central truth of the state in capitalist societies ; namely , that it is a field of political struggle . |
| 9 | The German romantic desire to escape from conflict and to arrive back at a state of harmony and unity is one of the most important psychological motives behind European federalism , and it ignores the basic fact that politics is always messy , divided and unharmonious . |
| 10 | The Labour party now shuts its eyes to the two , three or four-person household , and it ignores the single pensioner living alone . |
| 11 | Such a plea , although laudable , has little chance of becoming reality in the present organizational set-up , for it ignores the semantic difference in the uniformed ‘ polis 's ’ role and that of the 10–15 per cent of the institution who form the élite in the CID . |
| 12 | Anderson 's long turn , therefore , amounts to an extreme example of what Brown and Yule describe as 'speaking on a topic " , rather than 'speaking topically " ( Brown and Yule 1983 : 84 ) , in that it ignores the previous speaker 's utterance in order to develop a new topic . |
| 13 | Failure to do so would confirm the fear of those who say that the Government is so hell-bent on pursuing ideology that it ignores the pressing needs of our industrial community in the build-up to 1992 . |
| 14 | It ignores the different interests held by women within the categories of ‘ black women ’ , ‘ young women ’ , and ‘ lesbians ’ , which Morgan recognized when she compiled her book . |
| 15 | This is particularly the case as the IMF has been open to criticism that it ignores the social impact of its prescriptions , which create hardship and the potential for popular unrest as its free-market measures begin to bite . |
| 16 | For one thing , it ignores the social reality that teenage sexual experience is extremely common amongst young people ; pupils may well appreciate the benefits of stable family life and so on without perceiving any need to desist from their sexual activity . |
| 17 | It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom . |