Example sentences of "[adj] it represent [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although this is still far too many it represents a substantial improvement .
2 For most people , retirement does not offer such vistas ; for many it represents a grinding poverty , and the monotony of a life-style structured by the meagre levels of state pensions .
3 And , again , though this seems elementary it represents a deep truth , and the background knowledge of it will give the eventual manuscript extra power .
4 Although modest in scope and requiring Senate and presidential approval before becoming effective , the legislation — known as the " Brady bill " — was of the utmost symbolic importance in that it represented a historic defeat for the National Rifle Association ( NRA ) , one of the country 's most powerful interest groups .
5 And for thousands it represented a real land of opportunity where the sun shone and the good life was there for the taking .
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