Example sentences of "[noun sg] represent the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already argued in this chapter ( p. 79 ) that the rat 's level of arousal can help determine the vigour of the OR ; and , theoretically more important , in this and in previous chapters I have argued that the decline of this investigatory response represents the operation of a process of habituation . |
| 2 | This response represents the isomorphic struggle to resolve meaning , at the level of metaphor . |
| 3 | The user 's acceptor represents the users and approves the specifications from the users ’ point of view before construction starts , and the user will use the operational system . |
| 4 | There is no sense that the audience at either play represents the cutting edge of unorthodoxy , buzzing with the enjoyment of dissent . |
| 5 | My personal view is that the latter direction represents the more promising future . |
| 6 | It is estimated that some 30 per cent of the overhead and marketing budget represents the cost of production and distribution of brochures . |
| 7 | Such provision represents the Group 's share of the estimated liability for costs which may be incurred in removing production platforms and facilities at the end of the producing life of each field . |
| 8 | By their social destruction , the message is conveyed that the impairment represents the greatest fall for a person this side of death . |
| 9 | Simmel concludes this section of his Philosophy with an argument that money represents the end point of that cultural process which may be described as the reduction of quality to quantity , a line of argument which was to prove particularly influential in later traditions of Western Marxism . |
| 10 | The British case represents the kind of compromise commentators on our national characteristics have come to expect . |
| 11 | It is likely that our case represents the sporadic type of the disorder , in the absence of any family history . |
| 12 | I suspect the misinterpretation represents the deep longing that most humans have to get inside the heads of other animals . |
| 13 | The right-angled Swastika represents the electron , or Siva in his aspect as transforming , evolutionary agent . |
| 14 | But Spender makes a leap in the argument , saying : ‘ One of our fundamental rules for making sense of the … world is … that the male represents the positive while the female , necessarily then , represents the negative ’ . |
| 15 | Parliament represents the interests of the old , pre-reform Russia . |
| 16 | For purposes of litigation , it is true , an infant can and must be represented by an adult , who will be called ‘ the next friend ’ of an infant plaintiff , the ‘ guardian ad litem ’ of an infant defendant ; but such a next friend or guardian represents the infant only for the purposes of the particular lawsuit , and is not necessarily , though he is commonly , the infant 's parent or general guardian . |
| 17 | Banks will lend to all but their smaller customers in this wholesale market adding an additional margin over Libor , which of course represents the bulk of their marginal funding cost . |
| 18 | A stock index represents the market 's estimate of the present value of the subsequent cash flows expected from the constituent companies , while the current price of a futures contract on an index for delivery at time T represents the market 's estimate of the present value at time T of the subsequent cash flows . |
| 19 | This net income represents the profits , fees and commissions that UK-based banks , finance houses , insurance companies and related activities receive from their international business . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most interesting theory states that the physical door-hanging represents the spiritual doorway to the Islamic heaven , which has four gardens at its innermost core . |
| 21 | Given that ( i ) no other sources support this view ; ( ii ) the view is none the less generally reasonable ; ( iii ) evidence from Pomponius ( and perhaps also Julian ) seems to speak against it for the second century ; and ( iv ) a Justinianic interpolation seems unlikely , it seems most probable that the text represents the genuine view of Papinian . |
| 22 | The left foot represents the left side of the body and the right … well I 'll leave you to work that one out ! |
| 23 | Extending the curriculum to include a range of applications which more adequately than at present represents the kinds of human endeavour where mathematics is used would be another such change , with fewer examples involving ballistics and war , for instance , and more involving such activities as working with fabrics , designing appliances for the disabled or looking at the school canteen 's queuing problems . |
| 24 | One can compare the passage just quoted , which insists on the unknowability of the real world , with some of her subsequent remarks ; as , for instance , when she refers to her argument ‘ that literature represents the myths and imaginary versions of real social relationships ’ , and claims that ‘ a form of criticism which refuses to reproduce the pseudo-knowledge offered by the text provides a real knowledge of the work of literature ’ , or says that ‘ the task of criticism , then , is … to produce a real knowledge of history . ’ |
| 25 | For the ryokan represents the essence of things Japanese — atmosphere , customs , traditional arts , and , fundamentally , the conventional Japanese way of life as engendered from past centuries . |
| 26 | For my money , and at the time of writing ( things can change rapidly ) this deck represents the cutting edge in compact disc reproduction at the price — an important caveat . |
| 27 | The tax base represents the number of workers and taxpayers in the country , and all welfare payments are made from the taxes taken from the employed . |
| 28 | Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence . |
| 29 | FORMER All Black captain DAVID KIRK , who narrowly missed a seat in the New Zealand Parliament representing the constituency of the former Prime Minister , Sir Robert Muldoon , has been offered a job in the office of the New Prime Minister in Wellington . |
| 30 | Carlos Manuel Castillo , 61 , an economist representing the social democratic National Liberation Party ( PLN ) which had held power for the past eight years , came second with 47.3 per cent . |