Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] be representative " 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 problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid . |
| 6 | The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios . |
| 7 | The parameters used to measure growth must therefore be chosen to be representative , characteristic , reliable , and objective . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Although an attempt was made to be representative in the choice of these films it is clear that if the effects observed are of any practical significance it should be possible to observe them on a more varied stimulus set . |
| 11 | The pastry crust was embellished with a tiny figure and the whole thing was held to be representative of Christ in the crib . |