Example sentences of "that it represent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most significant aspect of the New Historicism , political questions apart , is that it represents a move away from the contextless , intensive concentration on particular texts equally characteristic of the New Criticism , classical structuralism , and deconstruction . |
| 2 | Having lived with the passage for years , I am persuaded that it represents — based , as it plainly is , on Aeneid 1 , 341ff. , and 4 — a response to veteris vestigia flammae drastically at odds with Hardy 's response ( which , as we have seen , Pound had apparently not noticed in any case ) . |
| 3 | But when we realize that the eye is most probably Bleistein 's , we realize that it represents a degeneration from the expected human eye . |
| 4 | The point about sacrifice is that it represents slog , sweat and tears . |
| 5 | Even scholars who think that Kantorowicz read too much meaning into this picture would agree that it represents the emperor as if he were Christ seated in majesty . |
| 6 | This pattern of land distribution reflects such great disparities and brings about so much poverty that it represents one of the major problems that agrarian reform has addressed . |
| 7 | As the legal regime for the National Curriculum comes into effect , it becomes increasingly apparent that it represents not so much a ‘ straitjacket ’ but a ‘ corset ’ — holding things in place , while restricting , but not totally , freedom of movement ! |
| 8 | Terence Davies has apparently emerged from the representation of his social origins smelling of Art , and it is this very concept which mainstream criticism just can not get enough of , for at its best ( its most effective ) it denies the social world at the very moment that it represents it . |
| 9 | This dynamic function of money stems from the fact that it represents purchasing power , which , when exercised , stimulates production of goods and services . |
| 10 | A nice gimmick ; but read this trilogy immediately after an in depth study of quantum theory and you find that it represents possibly the most scientific of all science fiction novels . |
| 11 | Thus it would seem that the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ , so often quoted in a context suggesting that it represents a fairly finite occurrence taking a relatively short space of time , did , in all probability cover a very long time indeed , perhaps many thousands of years . |
| 12 | Those who subscribe to this view would disagree with the proposal of the FRED that where a warrant lapses unexercised the amount previously recognised should be reported in the statement of total recognised gains and losses , since they do not consider that it represents a gain to the company . |
| 13 | Most people recognize the negatives ; that it represents the end of work , the end of paid employment , the end of having to rise early from bed . |
| 14 | Might it not be possible that ours is indeed the only Universe , and that it represents the ‘ best line ’ through all the trillions of probabilities ? |
| 15 | Die Entführung is unlike any previous Singspiel , in that it represents a fusion of the technical resources of Italian opera seria with the homely tunefulness of the Singspiel . |
| 16 | One unit was composed of many more buildings than the others and it is suggested that it represents a social difference with specialist activities taking place there . |
| 17 | Does the variation have a function similar to the interpretation placed upon the cremation pottery , that it represents the wearer 's social group ? |
| 18 | In defending this choice of subject matter Le Roy Ladurie has recently protested that it represents just whatever can be most readily understood in quantitative terms . |
| 19 | OpenVision , a new Pleasanton , California company headed by Michael Fields , former president of Oracle USA , launched its first product , claiming that it represents the industry 's most advanced approach moving vital corporate-wide applications from mainframe to client-server networks by providing mainframe-like systems management capabilities for large geographically dispersed networks of different computers . |
| 20 | Moving beyond the confines of the literary , perry Anderson has similarly dismissed all poststructuralism on the grounds that it represents ‘ the randomisation of history ’ . |
| 21 | It is exactly this assumption , however , that shows the extent to which Western society is indistinguishable from all other cultures , for each , according to Lévi-Strauss , has always assumed that it represents the full meaning and significance of human society : |
| 22 | Indeed a similar equivocal attitude exists towards the issue of council-house sales , some women ( like some socialists ) even appearing to endorse the ‘ right to buy ’ clause in the new Act , presumably on the basis that it represents an avenue for women to enter into the private market ( Brion and Tinker , 1980 , p. 43 ) . |
| 23 | Equally contentious is its inspirational source , and experts have suggested that it represents a stylized version of such diverse objects as a pine cone , a cypress tree , a leaf , a foetus , a male sperm and the Zoroastrian flame . |
| 24 | When we five and a half years of life of the coral from Isabella Island in the Galapagos the remarkable thing about this coral record is that it represents nearly three hundred and eighty years of continuous coral growth . |
| 25 | Text indicating the tolerance conditions imposed on the circle may clearly indicate , together with other geometric features , that it represents a bearing surface on a shaft . |
| 26 | The first is that however the decision is presented , one suspects that it represents a reversal of the previous commitment of the government to strengthening competition . |
| 27 | It is not possible to understand this interesting document until it is remembered that it represents a SHARE of sheep taken over and not a public SALE and then fractions of an animal become acceptable . |
| 28 | What gives a name as a name its special status is that it represents the transcendence " of the object relative to any particular description that might be given of that object . |
| 29 | The herbicide Agent Orange and all that it represents , from carpet bombing of rainforests to bulldozing them down and removing their topsoil , managed to demolish a fifth of Vietnam 's tree cover and to replace it , in great stretches , with a moonscape of bomb craters . |
| 30 | We should also reject ( Hegel 's ) idea that it represents the populace as against the aristocratic heroes of the drama proper : in origin and essence , tragedy is purely metaphysical and not sociopolitical . |