Example sentences of "represent [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , they represent only a fraction of the long distance paths Britain has to offer . |
| 2 | For them aircraft represent only a small part of their huge engineering and shipbuilding businesses . |
| 3 | Opinion polls represent only a small fraction of all the social research which is conducted in Britain , but they have become the public face of social research because they are so heavily reported : on average there is at least one poll story in each copy of every national or local newspaper in Britain . |
| 4 | The cases reported to WHO represent only a very small proportion of actual people infected . |
| 5 | The designs are not static ; they represent only a beginning . |
| 6 | The theories in this section represent only a selection from the range of sociological theories . |
| 7 | Though this section looks only at government regional policies and labour mobility policies , it is worth mentioning that these represent only a small proportion of government expenditure on aid to industry . |
| 8 | We treated orthopaedic screening as a distinct category because some neonatal deformations ( such as congenital dislocation of the hip ) represent only a predisposition to congenital abnormality , and surgery is avoided by conservative treatment . |
| 9 | Then the landscapes at La Rue-des Bois which are influenced by Cézanne are still related in many ways to Picasso 's more ‘ primitive ’ or ‘ Negroid ’ work ; indeed , this series of paintings begun in La Rue-des-Bois is contemporary with other canvases which represent only a continuation of his earlier work ; some of the simplest of the La Rue-des-Bois landscapes , with their almost naive interpretation of houses and trees , remind one strongly of the art of the Douanier Rousseau . |
| 10 | These paintings do not differ fundamentally from his work of the previous autumn and represent only a very gentle movement towards a softer , more lyrical kind of painting . |
| 11 | Though volatiles represent only a tiny fraction of the masses of the terrestrial planets , they endow Venus , the Earth , and Mars with interesting phenomena such as atmospheres , oceans , polar caps and , at least in the case of the Earth , a biosphere . |
| 12 | The techniques of display , enhancement , filtering and transformation of remotely-sensed images that have been described in this chapter represent only a selection of those available . |
| 13 | Most transactions involving operational information produce paper as their by-product ( e.g. till receipts , credit card vouchers , tickets , prescription forms , invoices , and statements ) , but paper records represent only a fragment of the material in electronic form . |
| 14 | Thus the descriptions of a language which are the output of a first-order application of linguistic theory represent only an inventory from which a selection must be made in order to draw up the syllabus for any particular teaching operation . |
| 15 | Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain . |
| 16 | Although for long established homeowners , falling property prices represent merely a paper loss ( likely to be relatively small compared to paper gains made in preceding years ) , those who bought at , or close to , the peak of the boom , will suffer an absolute drop in the price of their homes . |
| 17 | expressing your hope that these convictions signal the determination of the Guatemalan government not to tolerate any further human rights abuses , no matter who the perpetrators , and that they represent merely a first step in a concentrated programme of government action intended to return Guatemala to the rule of law ; |
| 18 | Such charges might seem unpalatable to influential lairds , but the report suggests that they represent merely a shift of emphasis , recognising the responsibility for good stewardship long adopted by many Highland estates . |
| 19 | Their interviews represent just a tiny part of the Hall Carpenter Archives , an outstanding collection of British gay and lesbian material — films , tapes , photographs , journals , correspondence , memoirs , periodicals , and ephemera — brought together with the help of funding from the Greater London Council . |
| 20 | Metal detectors designed especially for the professional and hobbyist markets represent just a tiny fraction of the Garrett electronics empire , but it is in this latter sphere that the Garrett name comes to life . |
| 21 | Modern technology and the discourses of knowledge associated with it represent both a threat to society and a possible means of expanding human consciousness . |
| 22 | With a high proportion of the divers observed in Sussex not specifically identified , the figures quoted under the specific headings only represent about a third of the divers seen . |
| 23 | Although ales represent around a fifth of the nablab sector as a whole , The Brewers ' Society says it is ‘ so small a market that we do n't even bother to quantify it . ’ |
| 24 | Five years later , the new albums represent neither an expansion nor a retreat but a hesitant reluctance to set out anew . |
| 25 | But because exploration costs represent barely a fifth the total North Sea spending of about £10 billion , this may not be considered too heavy a price to pay for an attempt to switch activity towards developing some of the finds already made or maximising the returns from fields already in production . |