English Verb Phrase I Flashcards
Mobilize resources
Gave government the fiscal capacity to mobilize resources for Big Push industrialization.
Impose restrictions
Government imposed restrictions on mobility.
Provide sb with leeway in -ing
…providing local governments with substantial leeway in making economic development decisions.
Correspond to sth
Investment cycles corresponded to policy cycle and recurrent policy conflict.
Ups and downs in sb’s view of sth/sb
These remarkable ups and downs in the Chinese view of the value of Soviet experience reflected the relevance of the Soviet Union to China’s own course.
Score achievements
Heavy industry had by then scored great achievements.
Throw sb into greater reliance on
This had the effect of throwing the Tang house into greater reliance on the more loyal southern provinces.
Sth is/are Compensated for by sth
The scarcity of the archaeological documents in largely compensated for by the almost inexhaustible riches of the literary sources.
,As conventional wisdom has it,
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,to one degree or another,
In various degrees
It is/was not so much A as it is/was B
This was not so much a rejection of academic study as it was a sign that intellectual culture itself was increasingly concerned with analyzing American society.
To bear on the the problems of
To have an impact upon the problems of
A new generation of reformers sought to bring empirical data,efficiency, and professional training to bear on the problems of industrial America.
Overdose on
Overdose on sleep pills
The gap between A and B is/was jarring
A and B was out of harmony and the gap was irritating
Receive wide publicity
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