Example sentences of "represent a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many brewers , of course , built fine half-timbered Tudor pubs , a style which neatly conveyed the message of ‘ Merrie England ’ and which for customers in the suburbs could represent a kind of home from home . |
| 2 | DSP based products will represent a rich blend of several engineering disciplines , signal processing , digital and analogue hardware design , systems engineering and software engineering . |
| 3 | But , for Derrida , whose fusion — or ( con ) fusion — of obscurity and playfulness is an essential element in his textuality , Norris 's exposition may represent a process of intellectual tidying up which leaves out something important . |
| 4 | It would represent a realignment within the humanities , not a diminution of them . |
| 5 | Beyond this , what might appear just to be a way of illustrating how motets were put together — singing the two or three different , often highly contrasted melodies individually before putting them together as a polyphonic , multi-texted whole — may equally well represent a valid reflection of the manner in which they were originally performed . |
| 6 | Unfortunately those clause do not represent a commitment by the Government to make that system work . |
| 7 | Boucher , who has lost only three of his 23 fights and carries a powerful right-hand punch , will represent a fair test . |
| 8 | If legal recognition is granted , the reserve and its neighbouring area will together represent a stretch of rainforest half the size of Wales , home to 10,000 families of seringueiros and Indians , set aside for preservation . |
| 9 | Mr De Haan said a £3 a share offer would represent a 25 per cent compound annual growth for investors who had bought shares when the company first came to the stock market . |
| 10 | The notion of quotas has angered the Central Council for Jews in Germany , whose chairman , Heinz Galinski , has said that this would represent a sinister form of selection . |
| 11 | The secretary-general does not represent a continent . |
| 12 | Did they represent a time when women gathered apart from men , experiencing their own primal potency , and sharing their own secrets with one another and with the pubescent girls ? |
| 13 | These do not necessarily represent a kind of tyranny imposed by men on women . |
| 14 | It would represent a very small minority in a government , one with no influence over policy . ’ |
| 15 | A minority government would represent a change in the political landscape . |
| 16 | The price of 600p , or a fraction under , will represent a successful conclusion to the plan by Chicago-based parent Waste Management Inc to launch its overseas arm Waste Management International as a separate entity with a listing in London . |
| 17 | Indeed , it would represent a complete breakdown , not just of law and order , but of all civilised values . |
| 18 | Our agency has found great value in a process which , to many agencies , may represent a new departure in adoption and the preservation of the child 's relationships with certain selected members of his natural family . |
| 19 | Parliaments must connect government with the governed , and a significant transfer of power away from national parliaments would represent a weakening of institutions with which people are familiar , and which they can understand , and a strengthening of one which is remote and weak . |
| 20 | The constant species of small islands in lochs of Lewis , Harris and the Uists are Sorbus aucuparia , Salix aurita or S. cinerea , Rubus fruticosus and ryopteris dilatata and these might also represent a degraded form of the same sub-community . |
| 21 | At such times as it was expedient to run water from the Grand Union Canal into the Grand Junction Canal the passing of that water down from the top to the bottom pond , that is a fall of 56 feet and at the rate of say 2 locks per hour , would represent a gross force of 32 h.p. and this force could be utilized by means of a turbine or otherwise for providing power to work the lift . |
| 22 | All our discussions of faith as trust , venture or wager have accepted that to subscribe to theism must represent a reasonable commitment on the part of the believer . |
| 23 | A tablespoon is considered a 20ml measure , a teaspoon 5ml , and a coffee-spoonful 2.5ml , so a granule dissolved in : — 40 tablespoons = 800ml = granule/ml so a 5ml dose contains a of a granule. ( 160 days supply ) 30 tablespoons = 600ml = of a granule per 5ml dose ( 120 days supply ) 20 tablespoons = 400ml = of a granule per 5ml dose ( 80 days supply ) 15 tablespoons = 300ml = of a granule per 5ml dose ( 60 days supply ) 8 tablespoons = 160ml = of a granule per 5ml dose ( 32 days supply ) A coffee spoonful will represent a dosage twice as small as the above i.e. 40 tablespoons = of a granule per 2.5ml dose . |
| 24 | Although the development of social skills may be somewhat impaired by the degree of mental handicap , this does not generally represent a major problem . |
| 25 | The Royal Commission of 1954–7 advocated that hospitals did not represent a satisfactory environment for mentally handicapped people , especially children , and that their use for such purposes should be phased out . |
| 26 | This is not to suggest that life in a large mental handicap hospital is a fulfilling experience ; on the contrary , it has already been established that such places should not ideally exist and do not represent a suitable home for mentally handicapped people . |
| 27 | Although often known as ‘ fringe benefits ’ , non-monetary additions to earnings can often represent a considerable part of the financial rewards of employment . |
| 28 | Although the new mayors tended to be younger men , they did not represent a new class of people . |
| 29 | They will represent a permanent structural change in the form of organisation of Palestinian society … |
| 30 | I suppose they might represent a considerable academic scoop . |