Example sentences of "represents a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word cuboid has six letters and represents a solid figure with six plane faces . |
| 2 | At the outset we need to make a distinction between economic support which passes between one individual and another , and situations where members of a family share resources from a commonly-owned pool , which represents a distinctive type of economic sharing between kin . |
| 3 | Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , " The four wishes of St Martin " , a fabliau found in four manuscripts , one copy being an Anglo-Norman version in an English manuscript , represents a distinctive subset of fabliaux with a supernatural and religious setting . |
| 4 | It represents a halfway position between jobbing production and mass production , and is mostly to be found in the light engineering industry . |
| 5 | The boost from the province represents a complete about-face by the New Democratic Party , whose Culture and Communications Minister Karen Haslam had chided the gallery for its ‘ elitism ’ and imposed devastating cutbacks that forced the museum to lay off 244 employees and close for seven months last year ( see The Art Newspaper No.22 , November 1992 , p.7 and No.24 , January 1993 , p.8 ) . |
| 6 | This image represents a tiny fraction of the activities and aspirations of International Women 's Day . |
| 7 | Barrett 's oesophagus represents a metaplastic transformation of the normal squamous cell epithelium of the lower tubular oesophagus into columnar epithelium . |
| 8 | Equally contentious is its inspirational source , and experts have suggested that it represents a stylized version of such diverse objects as a pine cone , a cypress tree , a leaf , a foetus , a male sperm and the Zoroastrian flame . |
| 9 | The Corporate Report represents a good example of the entity view . |
| 10 | The fact that they seem more willing to take a chance on change suggests that a new era may be dawning which represents a new problem for beleagured British Prime Minister John Major . |
| 11 | It represents a new way of life in which the behaviour and requirements of the collective body are present at every moment . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It represents a new way of thinking about the media world we live in and a new way of learning the skills of active engagement and critical reflection with all forms of modern media — television , video , film , radio , print , and the glue that binds them all together — advertising , ’ says Sister Elizabeth Thoman , Executive Director of the Center for Media and Values . |
| 13 | This represents a new departure in both the study of public transport operators and the derivation and application of concepts relevant to organisation studies . |
| 14 | However , if the Revenue 's approach represents a new hardening of attitudes that will affect all small family companies , then this matter ought to be explored at a high level by the appropriate professional body or be taken through the courts by a consortium of practitioners . |
| 15 | The transformation of SunSoft 's operating system development effort into a modern design and production process is not typical of the software industry , but it represents a new model for the software business that will come to predominate , he believes . |
| 16 | This represents a new area for Johnson Matthey . |
| 17 | Falling Down represents a New Brutalism in the cinema . |
| 18 | Thus , whilst he has rebutted the charge that permissiveness represents a simple diminution in control , he nevertheless asserts that within the new control structure there are greater possibilities for the expression of emotion . |
| 19 | The diagram in figure 12.1 represents a simple system of multiple causal paths . |
| 20 | The arrival of a new and major market in the Lancaster area represents a major opportunity for local firms . |
| 21 | ICI believes that the Environmental Protection Act represents a major opportunity for good environmental performance in the future . |
| 22 | It represents a major setback for the Tories and raises the prospect of a hung Parliament with Labour the biggest party . |
| 23 | If undetected and untreated , shock represents a major threat to survival . |
| 24 | This follows because in the competitive world of the coral reef , a fish of the same species represents a major threat to the food supply and refuge of the sitting tenant , simply because the interloper requires the same type of food and habitat . |
| 25 | The sum of the projects with which Morris was involved represents a major contribution to more than one strand of eighteenth-century architecture . |
| 26 | The true economics of Keynes , they argue , is a dynamic analysis of the macroeconomy in disequilibrium and as such represents a major contribution to economic theory as well as to economic policy-making . |
| 27 | To be the captain of industry one day , and following your wife around the supermarket the next represents a major change in role , and can cause a man to feel confused about his self-image . |
| 28 | I recognize that it represents a major change in policy to even consider the idea of recruiting the unemployed , but I understand the C E C for looking for referral and we will be happy with that this year . |
| 29 | We accept this represents a major change from earlier views that the equivalent doses were triazolam 0.5 mg to 30 mg flurazepam or 20 mg temazepam ’ . |
| 30 | It represents a major synthesis in what has become an increasingly complex field and , because the approach is founded so solidly on comparative nutrition , should be of interest to biologists who work on wild and domesticated herbivores . |