Object

• principle: It might be helpful to restate basic principles of wildlife management along rivers.

• argument: I understand how tedious it is to have to restate arguments with which all of us are familiar.

• importance: In them you are to watch over one another in love - is an attempt to restate the importance of this dynamic.

• theme: In his view, my response to Hayes does little more than restate the main themes of my original piece.

Modifying Another Word

• briefly: Restate briefly why you think you can make an exceptionally strong contribution on the job.

• clearly: Let me clearly restate that remains our desired objective.

Used with why or when

• what: Just to restate what we've seen: your mass looks like your density times your volume.

Modifying Another Word

• merely: An investigator may fancy his problem solved when it is merely restated in a new form.

• simply: Often, the conclusion is simply restated in the premises in a slightly different form.

• recently: Bullying: The school has recently restated its anti-bullying policy, a copy of which is available on request.

Preposition: in

• term: This should be extracted and copied to every teacher as it restates in clear terms some basic thinking about learning.

Infinitive complement

• reflect: Comparative figures have been restated to reflect these revised accounting policies.

Preposition: in

• accordance: The comparative information has been restated in accordance with IFRS.

• form: Could 1, 2 and 3 be restated in that second form?

Preposition: under

• ifrs: The full year announcement for 2004/05 will be restated under IFRS on 16 June.