Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to be representative of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , trades council delegates can hardly be deemed to be representative of the broad interests of our movement . |
| 2 | Skill in letter-writing is by no means evenly distributed among the population and letter-writers can not be said to be representative of the general population . |
| 3 | Only Richard Elliott , Headmaster of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Margate , and the Reverend William Stainer , chairman of the London Schools Board Classes for the Deaf , could be said to be representative of the dominant system of education then prevailing in British schools . |
| 4 | The sample will not be random , but will be selected to be representative of children in special schools for EBD in terms of social , gender distribution and behaviour problems described by teachers at the time of referral . |
| 5 | The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios . |
| 6 | These exemplars were chosen to reflect a range of different traffic situations within each junction and were intended to be representative of the full set of 28 films of each junction available from the drives in Study 1 . |
| 7 | For the second survey a sample of 1.7 million volumes was taken from a number of areas of the Library which were considered to be representative of the book collections as a whole . |
| 8 | The pastry crust was embellished with a tiny figure and the whole thing was held to be representative of Christ in the crib . |