Example sentences of "be [verb] [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 . |