Example sentences of "they represent a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surviving Japanese aircraft are few and far between , recent trends to collect and exhibit them are to be encouraged , they represent a fount of experience and knowledge that has only slightly been dipped into . |
| 2 | Though they were attributed to the Moors , the Moors themselves regarded the irrigation works themselves as an inheritance from a previous Christian civilization ; age-old , they represent a degree of social organization and co-operation that compels admiration . |
| 3 | They represent a man 's date of birth , a driving licence number and an identity number . |
| 4 | As does the whole concept of the Common Foreign and Security policy , they represent a way of thinking which sees military capability as relatively unimportant beside the dream of a powerful and independent European Union , speaking with one voice and free from American interference . |
| 5 | Where the local nobility provided leadership in the rising against the French it was accepted , as the composition of the Juntas shows ; the role of these local notables has yet to be studied , but they represent a type of ‘ patriot ’ in 1808 . |
| 6 | If other people have it they represent a threat to our independence , to our ability to make choices and to our sense of having control over people and situations in our own lives . |
| 7 | We are envious of others who have power because they represent a threat . |
| 8 | Local farmers and regional government often hold large emergency stocks which are not counted , but it is nevertheless accepted that they represent a trend . |
| 9 | If towns are planned or built with large market-places or whole quarters allotted to trafficking or to fairs , it stands to reason that they represent a throng of traders . |
| 10 | They represent a triangle of forces , in which the movement of any one point affects the other two . |
| 11 | ‘ Although these groups presently account for only 7 per cent of Aids cases in the UK they represent a reservoir from which the spread into the general heterosexual population can occur . |
| 12 | They represent a kind of hybrid architect , designer , engineer , set builder and scenario maker , all rolled into one . |
| 13 | It is true that the cost to the Exchequer is below average because no benefits are paid ( though there is still a loss of potential taxation ) , but the unemployed may suffer from lack of income , boredom and depression in just the same way as the counted unemployed ; furthermore , since they are capable and available for work , they represent a loss of potential output . |
| 14 | They represent a shift in the social division of labour related to changes in the organization of manufacturing production . |
| 15 | These feelings of community are better termed communion , since they represent a form of community at the level of an individual 's subjective experience or consciousness . |
| 16 | They represent a peasant society , not , as the cliché has it , impenetrable or unchanging , but one extremely sensitive to internal change and outside influences , one where economic survival determines life styles and attitudes . |
| 17 | Assemble a collection of long objects ( or any objects will do ) in a pile and say they represent a number , e.g. four . |
| 18 | Their main role is providing ideas and means by which the world can be investigated sociologically ; in Lakato 's words , they represent a discipline 's " research programmes " . |
| 19 | They represent a growth of public expenditure and activity which Conservatives wish to curtail . |
| 20 | They represent a continuity of worship and music stretching back to a period well before the Reformation . |
| 21 | Briefly , they represent a sort of propositional machine , such that if " arguments of the appropriate type are " inserted " into them — the term " argument now to be understood in the sense of any object-naming symbol — they yield significant , true or false , propositions . |
| 22 | They represent a status group but they also represent class interests . |
| 23 | They represent a time when either their objects were not the same as those of the official organization , or the CCO was not enterprising enough to suit them . |
| 24 | Classical periods of literature are judged severely since they represent a moment of complacent self-satisfaction in which the movement of history is artificially suspended , in which social formations and institutions appear to have a permanent position in a fixed , hierarchical structure . |