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The author has adopted a thematic rather than a chronological approach to the French Revolution.
Such sentences with an active sentence construction but a reversal of thematic roles were absent from the data.
In contrast, the verbal passive has two thematic roles to assign.
Although many of the questions asked were open-ended and were analysed using thematic coding techniques, in other cases it was possible to quantify the results.
This thematic grouping helpfully structures an otherwise disparate set of texts, and should guide the reader towards the section of most interest to them.
However, the two different types of section are differentiated not only by the intended temporal effect but also by thematic construction.
This is enabled largely by taking a thematic approach.
A three-note motif is the 'spark igniting the thematic material' of the elemental first movement.
The programme is given a dual structure - both thematic and spatial.
