Example sentences of "as representing a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most recent Prime Ministers have usually presented themselves as representing a collective Cabinet viewpoint . |
| 2 | As the interest was a lesser figure per £100 block than the £3 0s. 0d. subscription , it encouraged Bondholders to accept membership as representing a better return and certainty . |
| 3 | The report presenting these figures stated that ‘ in many parts of the country facilities for residential care outside hospital are still nil or minimal ’ and described the provision as representing a ‘ gross shortage ’ . |
| 4 | Many American architectural critics have seen the Beaux-Arts style which developed from the turn of the century as representing a new invigoration in American station styles . |
| 5 | But if one issue is to be singled out as representing a point of potential conflict between partners at this time it will most likely concern the relationship between home and employment . |
| 6 | None of the parts of ploughs from the period have survived except for the soil stain from a wooden object in a recently excavated , and unusual , grave at Sutton Hoo which has been interpreted as representing a complete ard-type plough . |
| 7 | Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely . |
| 8 | So , for instance , they saw the Roman Catholic Church as representing a ‘ Petrine ’ approach , over against which Protestantism had emerged as a ‘ Pauline ’ antithesis ; and both should ultimately be reconcilable in a ‘ Johannine ’ synthesis . |
| 9 | Can a chimp perceive a movie as representing a second individual trying to solve a problem , like reaching bananas or switching on a heater ? |
| 10 | This document read as follows : That we , as representing a large number of the women compositors of Edinburgh , feel that a question affecting a considerable body of women should not be settled without these women having an opportunity of giving expression to their views . |
| 11 | Indeed , to see them as representing a kind of problem to which some solution might be found is to misunderstand their nature . |
| 12 | Looking back over this period most farm workers view the introduction of the tractor and the combine harvester as representing a decisive break in the hitherto orderly pace of agricultural change — and in many respects this is undoubtedly what has occurred . |
| 13 | They should be treated as place-holders for other propositions , rather than as representing a logically independent class of propositions of their own . |
| 14 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 15 | The modern western city remains the centre of many activities of society , but was seen as representing a large planning problem from the early 1960s . |
| 16 | The second language list , which included those languages other than the ‘ major ’ EC languages , should rather be seen as representing a major step forward in the recognition of the importance of , for example , Urdu . |
| 17 | Equation ( 4.27 ) can be seen as representing a simple monetary policy regime : a different value for g , or the inclusion of other influences on the quantity of money , would indicate a different policy regime . |
| 18 | The decision was seen as representing a setback not only to Hoechst but also to other large West German chemical concerns , such as Bayer and BASF . |
| 19 | Defence Minister Col. Rene Emilio Ponce described this as representing a " major escalation " in the war . |
| 20 | The statement , issued by Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh at the end of three days of talks in Washington , was interpreted in some quarters as representing a softening of the US demand for Iraq 's unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait . |
| 21 | Senators opposed to the treaty denounced it as US colonialism and as representing a violation of the Constitution , most notably in respect of the ban on the presence of nuclear weapons . |
| 22 | Critical of the discrimination suffered by Afro-Mauritanians and Haratin — the Moorish former slaves — Ould Daddah was seen as representing a more pluralist view of Mauritania 's identity than the Arabo-Islamism of Ould Taya . |
| 23 | The Fijian Nationalist United Front ( FNUF ) , described as representing a more conservative version of FPP policies , won five of the 37 Fijian seats , and independents the remaining two . |
| 24 | A surge by Tsomet from two to eight seats was seen as representing a new phenomenon in Israeli politics " right-wing anti-religious sentiment . |
| 25 | Since the development of the plate tectonics model , the Andes have sometimes been regarded as representing a classic example of the orogenic consequences of the subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath an overriding continental plate . |