Example sentences of "being representative of " in BNC.

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1 For example , predators are important causes of mortality of small mammals , and they may accumulate large assemblages of small mammal remains , but their prey reflects the particular needs and hunting behaviour of the predator rather than being representative of any one habitat .
2 The overview presented here suggests that many things happening in the period were seen as being representative of significant social changes .
3 Four townships ( A , B , C and D ) were then selected as being representative of the various combinations of these factors shown by the 48 townships as a whole ( see Table 5.1 ) .
4 The other is by being representative of the majority of actual bureaucrats , rather as the average reader of a newspaper like , say , The Times is simply a profile assembled out of the actual features of actual readers .
5 Stuart continued to maintain that their was best , being representative of the middle course .
6 A similar process of topic identification can contribute to the present project , by reinforcing the choice of words whose senses contain subject codes that have been identified as being representative of the overall text .
7 Aerospace and electronics have been chosen as case studies , these sectors being representative of the defence sector in general but sufficiently different to provide useful comparisons .
8 Hence ΔH becomes dependent on the availability of a suitable hole for a segment to move into , rather than being representative of the potential energy barrier to rotation .
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