Example sentences of "[noun pl] reflect the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bags under their eyes reflect the wild mood swings that have afflicted the party since the first week . |
| 2 | But though the pictures reflect the splendour and danger of the great peaks , they may fail fully to convey the challenge of the environment in terms of wind , low temperature and rarefied air pressure . |
| 3 | Castlereagh mayor Tommy Jeffers praised the schemes , adding : ‘ Not only do these excellent murals reflect the latent ability contained within community groups across the city , they also relate a very important message — trees make a vital contribution to our way of life . ’ |
| 4 | This means that to calculate a more useful index , we should ‘ weight ’ the unit prices of each item in such a way that the weights reflect the relative importance of each item in the average family 's budget . |
| 5 | It could be argued that the weights reflect the decision-makers ' theory of investment desirability , but what theory could rate NPV 333 per cent more important than process yield and ten times as important as basic R&D ? |
| 6 | The thinking behind the MMC report is that cash buyers are subsidising credit card users because prices in shops and restaurants reflect the charge levied by the credit card companies on the retailers . |
| 7 | Words reflect the culture of the people . |
| 8 | In a similar fashion , changes in opportunities reflect the development of the social career . |
| 9 | Similarly , comparisons between northern and southern populations of land animals reflect the many more opportunities for polar recruitment , and the wide range of available niches , to be found in the Arctic . |
| 10 | Does the linear structure of schools reflect the reality of working relationships ? |
| 11 | These contradictions reflect the impossibility of condensing a series of traditional practices and guidelines based on a wealth of cultural history into a set of universally meaningful statements . |
| 12 | It assigned a doubleA-minus rating to the company 's $100m 5.75% senior unsecured notes due May 1 2000 and said that the ratings reflect the company 's improving cost structure and regulatory flexibility authorised in most of its jurisdictions . |
| 13 | These goals reflect the backgrounds ( values , beliefs and experiences ) of individuals and do not emerge fully formed at 20 years of age ; they are acquired over long periods , and particularly during childhood . |
| 14 | Growth goals reflect the endless striving that other writers have noted : |
| 15 | The theoretical models reflect the strengths and weaknesses of modern game theory : they provide a rigorous characterization of what ‘ credible punishment ’ might mean , and a formal analysis of the way in which discount rates and demand , capacity , and cost parameters interact to determine the sustainability of tacit collusion . |
| 16 | THE LATEST VACUUM CLEANERS reflect the needs of the 90s . |
| 17 | There is currently a great absence of well-researched journalism about Africa , and many articles reflect the ignorance of the average Soviet citizen , posing such questions as ‘ Do you have houses ? ’ |
| 18 | In her article ‘ Hidden Messages ’ , Jenny Maxwell demonstrates how problems set for children learning mathematics in different countries reflect the dominant political ideologies of those countries . |
| 19 | The published accounts of PLCs are becoming more and more complicated because of the increased number and complexity of footnotes ; yet those footnotes reflect the increased awareness of the need to provide more relevant information . |
| 20 | We discuss whether the regions containing these apparently developmentally programmed patterns of DNase I hypersensitive sites reflect the action of a locus control region ( LCR ) by conferring tissue-specific , position-independent , copy-dependent expression on a wild-type Ea gene . |
| 21 | Large-scale maps can incorporate data obtained by dense sampling of small areas , whereas small-scale maps of offshore areas reflect the much lower sampling density possible is such areas . |
| 22 | Ripley 's texts reflect the contradictions of her career . |
| 23 | These women 's experiences reflect the disenfranchisement and casualisation of many women 's work . |
| 24 | Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land . |
| 25 | As centres of commerce , finance and fashion their buildings reflect the sardonic elegance of a bygone era . |
| 26 | Honeysett 's cartoons reflect the mundane uses that an ill-educated public might put new technology to . |
| 27 | Specialities reflect the cuisine of the country in which the franchise is held . |
| 28 | In the National Museum of Natural History , Washington , the collections reflect the research interests of the hundred or more curators . |
| 29 | The four 1949 Geneva Conventions reflect the principle that parties to a conflict should spare the wounded , prisoners of war , and civilians as much as possible from the effect of armed conflict and occupation . |
| 30 | The poems reflect the life and times of the people who created them , their moral values , their understanding of their own history , their hopes and fears for themselves as individuals , and , above all , their consciousness of belonging to a community under threat from alien forces . |