Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] reflect " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pre-eminent virtue attached to jade contributed in a variety of ways to the smooth working of the kind of hierarchical society reflected in the works of Confucius ( 551–479 B.C. ) . |
| 2 | This belief in the efficacy of economic sanctions reflected the continuing hold of ‘ imperialist pacifism ’ in the popular imagination . |
| 3 | These low rates of economic activity reflect the requirement to have formally retired from paid work in order to receive the state retirement pension in Britain . |
| 4 | The state has no role in the appointment of bishops and the juridical processes of church and state are kept entirely separate , though it will be seen that a number of administrative procedures reflect a direct link . |
| 5 | Few rural areas are beyond the ambit of a town or city and much of the increase of population in many parts of rural Britain reflects the underbounding of urban administrations . |
| 6 | Title V rules out for ever a return to the alternative : a degree of foreign-policy alignment reflecting the reality of diverging national interests and a European Community whose members express their friendship and community of interests by cooperating through the most effective available means . |
| 7 | The British Trias is almost completely lacking in marine fossils below the Rhaetian , but I maintained that one could nevertheless see the effects of alpine transgressions reflected in our continental sediments . |
| 8 | They must instead stick to a range of sensible prices reflecting the value of the target business to them . |
| 9 | The scramble for aristocratic advancement in this mixed constituency of prosperous urban merchants , ambitious Jat farmers and the inevitable hordes of illiterate villagers reflects a striking fact of political life in the royal Indian state of Rajasthan . |
| 10 | The implications of this would seem to be that 1975–85 did not see a process of structural change , but simply the latest in a series of chaotic attempts by central actors to use local government as a means of achieving their ends , without any appreciation of the range of different interests reflected in its various policy networks , and which are also linked by various routes to the still disaggregated parts of the centre . |
| 11 | Indeed the contingency approach to organisations would argue that , depending upon the dominant activity , an organisation should consist of different sub-cultures reflecting different activities . |
| 12 | What Wagener 's Law suggested was that the expansion of public services reflected the ‘ exigencies of industrialisation ’ — as a nation industrialises it develops needs for collectively provided goods such as roads , sewers transport , and so on . |
| 13 | Different patterns of public expenditure reflect the state 's role in the restructuring of private capital at a time of economic recession , and in the political crises which the recession and new directions of state intervention bring about . |
| 14 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 15 | Although the form of English pronouns reflects their number and gender , it almost always depends on the semantic number and gender of what they refer to , rather than to any linguistic property of the names of their referents . |
| 16 | The revolution of thought which took place in France in the 1960s , with the work of Barthes , Foucault , Kristeva , Derrida and Lacan , has transformed our perception of the subject , the teaching of both language and literature , and we realise that the varieties of English teaching reflect a variety of ideological assumptions . |
| 17 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 18 | A series of foreign contacts reflected increased diplomatic and economic interest in the prospect of a reunited Yemen . |
| 19 | The lack of theoretical discussion reflects the present state of our understanding : we have , on the one hand , only the rather simple philosophical approaches to indexicals ( covering just some aspects of person , time and place deixis ) , and , on the other hand , amass of complicated linguistic facts , to which some preliminary order has been brought by the work of Fillmore and Lyons in particular . |
| 20 | This use of hair as a symbol of social disorder reflects Benthall 's contention ( 1976 ) that an obsessive interest in the body was a result of people turning to its use as a medium of expression , because of their individual inability to shape modern technological and bureaucratic society . |
| 21 | However , some of the disinterest of social workers reflects the inherent ageism in our society . |
| 22 | The very anachronisms of British institutions reflect some of the compromises that have shaped the British upper class . |
| 23 | A case study is a close study of real events reflecting their changing complexity and vividness , recording actual events , not what should happen . |
| 24 | The adult reader 's use of a repertoire of cognitive processes reflects the different occasions on which words are encountered , and the different kinds of words which exist in English orthography . |
| 25 | None of this new generation of models make any pretence about the inanities and absurdities of their job , and their brand of individual beauty reflects that approach . |
| 26 | Although infra-red light is invisible to the human eye , it can be detected by special photographic film ; in general , the amount of infra-red light reflected from a plant depends on its ripeness , so that infra-red photographs can produce good-contrast images of crop marks that may be hardly visible on ordinary photographic film or to the eye . |
| 27 | Today we use polarised sunglasses to cut out the dazzle of polarised light reflected from water and other bright surfaces . |
| 28 | The traditional approach has been to model procedural rights by analogy to ordinary court procedure ; the principles of natural justice reflect an adversarial-adjudicative conception of process rights . |
| 29 | The Court has already held , in its judgment of 23 November 1989 in the Torfaen case , that national rules governing the opening hours of retail premises reflect certain political and economic choices in so far as their purpose is to ensure that working and non-working hours are so arranged as to accord with national or regional socio-cultural characteristics , and that , in the present state of Community law , is a matter for the member states . |
| 30 | The not always well-focussed objections of the liberationists to talk of indirect duties reflects an intense dislike of what they see as the arrogance of thinkers like Kant and Ritchie . |