Example sentences of "represents an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Existing US Administration policy represents an inadequate response to the threat of global warming , according to a report presented to the US Congress by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington . |
| 2 | Mishan ( 1972 ) notes that a unique result obtains in the unlikely situation of a case like where 3 represents an optimal distribution of income . |
| 3 | It may be that the increased protein synthesis by these tumours represents an increased production of secretory mucoprotein , the synthesis of which has been measured , in addition to the structural proteins , by the ‘ flooding dose ’ method . |
| 4 | That 's up a third on last year and represents an amazing reward for just 15 miles of special stage driving . |
| 5 | By any reckoning , this represents an impressive decade of military adventure and achievement for a country recovering from war and famine and for a government which ‘ needed peace ’ . |
| 6 | It represents an idealized view of the information needs of an area of particular human interest or activity . |
| 7 | In spite of a budget deficit which the government seems unable to control , Italy spends 9.6 billion ecu a year on industrial aid , which represents an average subsidy per employee of 3,136 ecu . |
| 8 | I believe that the spending levels that we are now seeing , through the new scheme that I announced in the summer , vindicate the judgment I made because the £17 million that was spent in the two years of the initial scheme represents an average spend of £8.5 million . |
| 9 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |
| 10 | A Court Scheme accordingly represents an alternative method to a compulsory sale under CA 1985 , s429 of compelling dissenting minority shareholders to sell their shares . |
| 11 | As determined by sequencing , the larger PCR product corresponds to the AD1 sequence plus the 5' and 3' flanking type III sequence while the 185 bp product represents an alternative form in which AD1 is spliced and only the flanking sequence of type III repeat 10 and 11 are present . |
| 12 | Since any glass can only take a certain amount of fluid it represents an easy way of thinking of our body 's limitations to the amount of stress we can endure . |
| 13 | For a man who took out a 25-year mortgage endowment policy at the age of 29 with a £30-a-month premium , the payout on a policy maturing this year has been cut from £62,543 to £59,602 , which represents an annual rate of return of 13 per cent . |
| 14 | The tale thus appropriately represents an early station in the Canterbury pilgrim-community 's road towards a religious goal that they can approach in fourteenth-century England , Becket 's shrine . |
| 15 | Some were great and glorious , some were humble and small — but together their destruction represents an awful catalogue of misery . |
| 16 | Petrological analyses that have been carried out support the model to some extent , especially for the production of domestic pottery ; much of it is grass-tempered which Brown ( 1976 ) suggests represents an equal mixture of clay and horse manure . |
| 17 | The concept of ‘ satisfaction with housework ’ follows the concept of ‘ work ’ or ‘ job ’ satisfaction as used in the sociology of industry and paid work ; it represents an overall assessment of the degree to which housewives are positively or negatively oriented to their work . |
| 18 | In the ecclesiological context of Dei Verbum 10 , it represents an exemplary exercise of magisterium as the ministry of teaching in the Church . |
| 19 | In short , the EPL 4300 represents an excellent printer at a very competitive price . |
| 20 | His lordship is of the view , as indeed I am myself , that while Father is allowed to continue with his present round of duties , he represents an ever-present threat to the smooth running of this household , and in particular to next week 's important international gathering . ’ |
| 21 | This represents an inappropriate use of land which might otherwise grow needed crops and so save imports , particularly animal feedstuffs , forest products , chemical feedstuffs and fuels . |
| 22 | But this still represents an annualised yield of 12.9 per cent — 4.3 per cent above the average rise in the RPI over this period . |
| 23 | Each cell in this table represents an enormous variety of human work but this is hardly surprising since the total of eighteen cells covers all human work . |
| 24 | This represents an enormous cost to industry in terms of lost production , compensation payments and recruitment and training of new staff . |
| 25 | The potential use of RICO represents an undoubted victory for the regulatory authorities . |
| 26 | Any legal system has to have an ideological base which represents an ideological alliance between the ruling class and other classes and class fractions . |
| 27 | Provided that the 's are not identical to the 's , equation ( 3.23 ) represents an irrational way of forming expectations , since it implies that expectations are being formed in a way which is inconsistent with the true process ; that is , equation ( 3.14 ) . |
| 28 | Scotland represents an interesting arena for research on corporatism because of its distinctive history , separate legal system and institutions . |
| 29 | The rise of Class War , who have no distinctive ideology apart from rabid anti-authoritarianism , represents an obvious reaction to the marxist-leninist model of political organisation which prevailed on the left up to the early 1980s . |
| 30 | She represents an obnoxious type of High Church Christian , often typified by adherents to the Oxford Movement , self-consciously ‘ medieval ’ in her choice of early English saint 's names for her sons . |