Example sentences of "[prep] be representative " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this contribution is to be representative of the burial environment within a 30 cm radius , it is best measured in situ , either using small metal capsules containing a highly TL-sensitive material buried for about one year , or using a calibrated gamma ray spectrometer . |
| 2 | Though they serve as parent representatives they are unlikely to be representative parents typical of the average parent at the school so they need to be encouraged to become involved in as many of the schools activities as possible , not only to gauge parental feelings and attitudes but energetically to engage in identifying ways of improving the school 's performance . |
| 3 | Our other main sample , however , the 444 life stories recorded for an earlier project , had been deliberately chosen on the basis of a quota sample to be representative of the British population as a whole in the early twentieth century . |
| 4 | The fieldwork is conducted monthly on a quota sample of two thousand individuals selected to be representative of the adult population of Great Britain ; more details about opinion polling companies and their methods are given in the appendix to this chapter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I missed his semi-erect dick , because I was furiously scribbling down detailed descriptions of his buttocks , but only a severely learning-impaired person would consider the character he is playing to be representative of normality . |
| 8 | The pastry crust was embellished with a tiny figure and the whole thing was held to be representative of Christ in the crib . |
| 9 | This is much less systematic than the others described above , and has little claim to be representative at all . |
| 10 | The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid . |
| 11 | It also allowed the commissions to be representative of the whole Church . |
| 12 | FIG. 3 a , VGP paths for nine numbered sites ( chosen to be representative of real palaeomagnetic sites ) for a normal-to-reverse transition . |
| 13 | These findings appear to be representative of other studies concerned with carers of dependent elderly ( parker 1985 ; Qureshi and Walker 1989 ) . |
| 14 | Such resources must be compiled systematically , i.e. the corpus should be large enough to cover the requisite variety of language structures , and to be representative of the type of text to be recognised . |
| 15 | These Partnerships need to be representative of the most influential stakeholders , if the Compact is to be a success . |
| 16 | These Partnerships need to be representative of the most influential stakeholders , if the Compact is to be a success . |
| 17 | But since " the people " are likely to be divided among themselves , the government is likely to be representative , not of all the people , but at best of a majority of them . |
| 18 | Members are appointed by the President from those considered to ‘ have knowledge or experience of conditions in the area and to be representative of persons living or working in the area ’ ( Social Security Act 1975 , Sched. 10 , para. ( 2 ) ) . |
| 19 | In addition , a medical mailing agency was commissioned to send invitations to participate to 2000 general practitioners stratified to be representative of all regions in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | The metabolic concentrations can not be taken to be representative of analgesic ratios . |
| 21 | Assuming this 27% to be representative of the adult population , he suggested a life expectancy for a dog-whelk in its third year to be a little over three more years- giving a total life span of 6 + years . |
| 22 | It 's not going , going to be representative . |
| 23 | A full scale sample , to be representative , may mean carrying out many interviews over a geographically dispersed area . |
| 24 | This idea of type section for a particular stratigraphical division will be discussed in a later chapter ; all I must say here is that no type section known to me can possibly pretend to be representative of a whole unit of the stratigraphical column , however small . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In order for a corpus to be representative it is necessary to define the whole of the text that the corpus is to be a sample of . |
| 27 | — ( 1 ) Where , at the beginning of the transitional period , there is no students ' association established for the students of the college , the college council shall , as soon as is practicable after that date ( after consultation with such persons as appear to them to be representative of students of the college ) , make a scheme for the establishment of a students ' association for students of the college . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |