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1. It was pretty depressing out in the street, with a gusty wind throwing handfuls of light drizzle in your face.
2. Since they were aliens it was possible to make scapegoats of them when public indignation had to be allayed.
3. This, indeed, had been the line first laid down by Drummont and later endorsed by Maurras.
4. This makes it so easy to mistake the mob for the people, which also comprises all strata of society.
5. Consequently we have come to call a state “democratic” if its
government is accountable to the people through competitive
elections to public office.
6. We now know how precarious the position of the government was.
7. When you listen to the War Requiem it becomes clear why most
West European artists are turning to medieval art for inspiration.
8. It is the time of the "White Nights" musical festival.
9. It would be a help if we had a system of advanced booking.
10. They all need an "enemy", and when the situation becomes dan-
gerous their anxiety to find such an enemy increases.
11. They called it "mummy" and identified it as a substance which
from ancient times had been known for its miraculous power to
cure all diseases.
12. As soon as things became a little more difficult for the shadow
economics, there appeared all sorts of social provocations.
13. If we imagine an ideal society, the best way to run it is to use dif
ferent systems and methods of governing in different sectors. It
would need both democracy and administrative control.
14. Today we are witnessing the emergence of another, alternative li-
terature.
15. The situation will change in the direction of common sense. We
shall acquire the habits of greater tolerance and the readiness to
carry out a respectful debate.
16. During the recent anniversary celebrations I’ve missed our chance
to reach a compromise. Not that we lack good examples in our
own history: victorious Peter the Great set up a monument to
Swedes fallen in the battle of Poltava.
17. All these facts prompt a simple answer: the country needs someone
to run it with a rule of iron.
18. A column of thick smoke rose over the palace in the Quay d’Orsey
clerks were busy burning diplomatic archives.
19. Small wonder so many people write in their letters about “loss of
faith” and “loss of ideals”.
20. Complex systems cannot be controlled with rigid formulas and
rules. Every system needs a self-regulating mechanism.
Задание 10. Переведите данные предложения и найдите, как субъект в диреме сдвигается в конец высказывания с помощью обратного порядка слов, конструкции THERE IS, придаточного предложения подлежащего.
1. In front of the map stood a little man wearing a fur-lined coat.
2. At the other end of the table stood two white-gloved waiters.
3. A few steps away are sun-scorched deserts.
4. Similar too was the outlook of the three hundred lesser clerics who immortalized themselves in "Henry Memorial".
5. Far more disastrous was another process which likewise began at this time.
6. Seemingly removed from all such factors, seemingly immune from all corruption, stood the army, a heritage from the Second Empire.
7. Besides the delegates to the Congress there were guests from abroad.
8. There could be no other approach to music that so powerfully deals with a theme vital to every human being.
9. There are at least some indications that France might be willing for the EEC to enter into special relations with Britain.
10. There emerged again a triumvirate called "collective leadership".
11. What was most surprising was that all those who worked in such
an intimate relationship with the state machinery were newcomers.
12. What was new in this was not the monarchist trend but the fact that
for the first time an important financial power set itself in opposi-
tion to the current regime.
13. What made France fall was the fact that she had no more true
Dreyfusards.
14. Out of the military defeat and economic collapse what had in fact
emerged was a regime whose capacity for government had been
doubtful from its inception.
Задание 11. Переведите данные предложения и определите номинализацию глагольного сказуемого, выраженного непереходным глаголом.
1. Our union is constantly working towards overcoming the split
in the national movement of coal miners' unions.
2. Democracy in the former Soviet Union is expanding through the growing authority of elected government bodies.
3. Officially Eden went to Moscow to exchange views.
4. Democracy aims to treat all people equally.
5. The Rothschilds started as court financial counselors in the first half of the eighteen century.
6. They entered upon their spectacular career as financial counselors of the Kurfurst of Hessen.
7. Under the genial influence of American and British loans Germany was reviving rapidly.
8. Russia was in ruin and convulsion, transformed beyond all semblance of the past.
9. At the same time there is a growing number of highly skilled spe-
cialists. Without them today's economy would simply be incapable
of developing.
10. The dispute between Slavophiles and pro-Westerners emerged be-
cause of the very position of Russia.
