Example sentences of "[noun] sum up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In speeches summing up for Yeltsin it was claimed that about 40,000,000 people had been " eliminated " by the CPSU , and that 19,840,000 " enemies of the people " had been repressed . |
| 2 | A principle source of the new enthusiasm was a problem raised directly by the EDC concept itself , a dilemma summed up by Konrad Adenauer on his first visit to the United States in April 1953 , when he said in New York that a European army without a correspondingly unified European foreign policy would be rather illogical . |
| 3 | ( Indeed it could be that the fullness of humanity summed up in Christ would be well represented by a woman and a man concelebrating . ) |
| 4 | The affair was in some ways summed up by photographs that appeared in the media in June 1978 of gardai forcing their way past a picket of women and children to allow the American multinational to dump its deadly waste . |
| 5 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 6 | The intergrading interactions between plants and animals , herbivory , dispersal and pollination , present several conflicts summed up as defence versus attraction . |
| 7 | These two encounters sum up for Major , cast by history as EC president , the difficulties he faces in advance of a special summit next month . |