Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] to be representative " in BNC.

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1 Skill in letter-writing is by no means evenly distributed among the population and letter-writers can not be said to be representative of the general population .
2 The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid .
3 The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios .
4 He said , trades council delegates can hardly be deemed to be representative of the broad interests of our movement .
5 The parameters used to measure growth must therefore be chosen to be representative , characteristic , reliable , and objective .
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