Example sentences of "[noun sg] represents a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Piaget , the activity of play represents a major advance in the ability of the child to control its own environment and engage in a variety of strategies . |
| 2 | Because the scale is logarithmic , each whole number increment represents a tenfold change in acidity ; thus , solutions of pH 6 , 5 and 4 contain 1 , 10 and 100 microequivalents of acidity ( Hsup+ ; ) per litre respectively ( abbreviated u eq/l ) as illustrated in figure 4.2 . |
| 3 | The National Curriculum represents a middle course — the present government believing that law by itself can not raise standards . |
| 4 | The National Curriculum represents a major intellectual challenge for teachers in the coming years . |
| 5 | Restructuring grant represents a specific commitment by the Government to the work force . |
| 6 | Sums of money I am describing tonight are large , revenue and capital spending combined , of over three thousand million pounds is many times the amount spent by quangos in Wales outside the health service and the grant represents a large share of my total budget for Wales and I hope members opposite are not suggesting I should cut spending on health , that is a vital service which I thought they supported as well . |
| 7 | Unless the government can be persuaded to change its mind , this decision represents a disappointing failure to embark on a much needed set of reforms . |
| 8 | ( b ) The " due diligence " defence The " due diligence " defence represents a crucial difference between the idea of strict civil liability , under Pt I , and criminal liability , under Pt II of the CPA 1987 . |
| 9 | Consumer protection represents an important plank in the evolving structure of Community law and several Directives have been issued in this field , including Directives relating to consumer credit and doorstep transactions . |
| 10 | Again , this absolute reduction represents a relative fall of seven author articles of more than 50% when compared with the frequency of six author articles ( fig 4 ) . |
| 11 | the inhouse best practice technique represents a valid , low-cost approach for identifying what can be achieved and the key elements needed for better performance ; |
| 12 | For those tiring of today 's political grand prix scene , Gerald Donaldson 's Gilles Villeneuve — The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver represents a long-overdue memorial to the heroic Canadian driver who was killed seven years ago practising in his Ferrari for the Belgian Grand Prix . |
| 13 | The figures show that agriculture represents a major industry for Scotland . |
| 14 | On the basis of this feedback , intensive subject assessment represents a significant step forward for SCOTVEC and , as a result of the experience , SCOTVEC is continuing to supplement its sampling visits with a programme of intensive subject assessment in session 1990/91 . |
| 15 | This new settlement represents a net increase of $25 million over the previously-agreed total [ see ED nos. 45 and 46 ] , which was rejected by the Alaska House of Representatives as an inadequate reflection of Exxon 's criminal liability . |
| 16 | Reasons are that the PC has become the conventional engineering tool ; most DSP applications programs run under ms-dos ; hardware interfacing of target DSP boards to the PC has become a standard practice , and the PC represents a low cost entry point into the field of DSP development . |
| 17 | The GRIST funding represents a timely response to addressing these issues , although a cautionary note has to be sounded — if the curriculum is not considered satisfactory for four years olds in general , what of its relevance for four year olds with special needs ? |
| 18 | • masonry represents a protecting envelope and fixed places ; |
| 19 | The possibility of incorporation represents a difficult route because of the close involvement and commitment of the local authority to that service , which is beneficial to it . |
| 20 | The dredger represents a major technological advance for the miners . |
| 21 | The local government legislation of the Thatcher administration represents a marked change in Conservative policy . |
| 22 | If the continuing ritual represents a progressive pruning away of the trappings of mythology , then it would follow that no one has clipped the lion 's wings or fleaed his rump or pared his claws since all these things , like classical-cum-Shakespearian mythology , are the ritual entrappings of the culture from which our own is descended , preserved among us as ‘ survivals ’ . |
| 23 | For the dreamer this illusion represents a deep and pleasurable necessity — which accounts for the well-known state of mind in which a dreamer can say , " It is a dream : I want to go on dreaming it . " |
| 24 | This approach stems from a strongly held belief that voluntary action represents a major force for positive environmental change . |
| 25 | The methodology represents a significant change in the development of computing systems away from the technology , in particular , hardware and software ( including programming techniques and algorithms ) , and towards data and the way it is structured . |
| 26 | The boundary between the mantle and crust represents a significant change in rock density but there may also be differences in chemical composition . |
| 27 | The investment represents a personal victory for the city 's Principal Arts Officer , Elizabeth Goodall , who has led a long campaign to educate local politicians of the cultural and economic rewards to be reaped from properly investing in the visual arts infrastructure . |
| 28 | The nine-lined figure represents a normal twelve-ed-ged non-transparent box . |
| 29 | The current figure represents a dramatic retreat from the situation of the early 1970s when large government deficits were financed by the sale of public sector debt ( bills and bonds ) to the banking sector . |
| 30 | Radiographs of the various individual heads taken for the Museum of Modern Art show that originally the faces of the figures at the right were painted in the same idiom as that of the figure at the left.1 Since the head of the standing figure represents an intermediate stage between that of the figure at the left and the one directly below it , it follows that the squatting figure , the still life and the drapery at the right were the last parts of the picture to be painted . |