Example sentences of "[Wh det] represented a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my best buys was a dovetailer jig costing a little over £100. which represented a saving of £200.00 over the price here . |
| 2 | By 1929 , the National WEA reported that ten of its sixteen Districts had lower branch membership totals than in 1924 , averaging 59% of all enrolled students , which represented a decline of at least 20% on the 1924 figure . |
| 3 | It is as if humanity has once more been motivated by its instinctive awareness that its ‘ god ’ was not entirely satisfactory , and as a reaction against the exclusiveness of the male Christ , the female Mary has been taken in an effort to correct an imbalance which represented a completely unacceptable division of the human race . |
| 4 | The analytical investigation of materials has also helped evaluate the development of industrial organisation and technological capabilities — from unalloyed copper to copper alloyed with arsenic or tin ( bronze ) for example , which represented a major technological breakthrough . |
| 5 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 6 | Prices rose by one-and-a-half times during the course of the war , which represented a significant achievement by the authorities . |
| 7 | In 1991 , IBM realised $1.5bn in worldwide revenue from sales of the RS/6000 , which represented a 50% improvement over 1990 . |
| 8 | In his television address to the Soviet people on the results of the summit Gorbachev described the INF treaty as a ‘ major event in world politics ’ and a ‘ victory for the new political thinking ’ , which represented a ‘ first step towards the actual liquidation of the nuclear arsenal ’ . |
| 9 | At Whittlesea Station in 1898 a staff of twelve dispatched 108,000 tons of bricks during the year , a total which represented a spectacular increase over 1891 , which had seen the dispatch of 7,130 tons . |
| 10 | Last year 's sales came to £2.4 million which represented a growth of 11.6 per cent on the previous year 's figure . |
| 11 | He described Gaul — or at least southern Gaul — in a way which represented a novelty for the Greek public ( 3.59.7 ) . |
| 12 | Over 520 members replied to the survey questionnaire which represented a response from 200 out of the 250 boards . |
| 13 | The government announced on Jan. 22 , 1990 , that the average inflation rate for 1989 was 14.7 per cent , which represented a small increase over the 1988 figure of 12.9 per cent , but a decline on the previous two years of 16.1 per cent in 1987 and 18.6 per cent in 1986 . |
| 14 | Although the Soviet Union ended fuel subsidies to Cuba from Jan. 1 , 1991 , it agreed to supply 10,500,000 tonnes of oil which represented a shortfall on promised supplies and was believed to be the bare minimum sufficient to meet Cuba 's needs [ for previous shortfalls in Soviet oil supplies see p. 37813 ] . |
| 15 | The measures , which represented a significant acceleration in the government 's three-year " economic salvation programme " , followed the virtual closure of the world 's financial markets to the country . |
| 16 | The sun also carried a message of hope ‘ whispering of fields unsown ’ this could be seen as analogous to the light from the candle in ‘ The sentry ’ which represented a symbol of hope to the blind soldier . |
| 17 | ‘ Work which represented a literalist abstraction , seemed to threaten the potent and ideological and economic component of modernism — the idea of art as expressive subjectivity , the emblem of individualism . ’ |
| 18 | His view of a robust plebeian culture embraces more than recreation , although the forms this took played an important and integrated role in a popular culture which represented a whole way of life . |