Example sentences of "can [be] summed [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two types of explanation on offer , which can be summed up as ‘ allergic explanations ’ and ‘ deficiency explanations ’ . |
| 2 | Botswana has no foreign debt and a stable currency — the pula ( about three to the Pounds ) — and its tourism policy can be summed up as high cost , low volume . |
| 3 | The project of Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge can be summed up as the attempt to study the relation between knowledge and social structure . |
| 4 | What do the changes which can be summed up as ‘ modernization plus deindustrialization ’ amount to in terms of consequences for people ? |
| 5 | Its purpose is to help believers to improve the quality of their faith , particularly by increasing understanding , and its ultimate aim can be summed up as ‘ the free adherence to God in faith ’ ( 3 ) . |
| 6 | What it can offer will be illustrated in case studies below , but can be summed up as a general information carrier , providing instant access to a variety of information which is more up to date than printed sources an educational service , providing information on new technology , higher education , careers , educational developments and new educational products a gateway service , providing access to remote databases such as ECCTIS ( see below ) a service providing access to other viewdata systems via Bulletin ( W.M. ) , Monitel a mailbox facility , allowing electronic communication between schools and other users and providing contact points for school librarians and teachers a software service providing telesoftware and enabling users to obtain access to software via Prestel Education and Micronet a microviewdata service , allowing users to create their own databases through Prestel |
| 7 | Perhaps the two main sets of determinants can be summed up under ‘ economies of scale ’ and ‘ economies of scope ’ . |
| 8 | The Cockroft Report ( 1984 ) gave a most encouraging survey of good practice and advocated an approach which can be summed up through the mnemonic SPIDER : . |
| 9 | Its constant , playful , inventive forging of a self-contained language can be summed up by the novel 's own phrase , ‘ say mangraphique , may say nay por daguerre ! ’ . |
| 10 | With regard to the foundation on which his advocacy of the primacy was based , it can be summed up by saying that he thought it was an integral part of the rights of the church committed to his care , testified to by the living members of the community and the tradition which they inherited . |
| 11 | They can be summed up by remarking yet once more that if you consider sexuality and sexual topics legitimate and natural , your manner will adjust itself . |
| 12 | Only later did Sukarno reveal the full venom of his animosity ( ‘ While I was taking hammer blows on the head his entire underground effort can be summed up by saying he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio ’ ) . |
| 13 | ‘ My view of the Common market can be summed up in four words and three of them are … the Common Market . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Our success , ’ says Denis Galway , Director and General Manager , ‘ can be summed up in the ability to offer customers , old and new , the right facilities and service at the right price . ’ |
| 15 | Denis Galway , Director and General Manager of Larne Harbour Limited , explains : ‘ Our success can be summed up in the ability to offer customers , old and new , the right facilities and service at the right price . |
| 16 | These words can be summed up in an acronym DOSES . |
| 17 | Storage is concerned with space and , conveniently as so often happens , requirements can be summed up in an acronym this time SPACES which stands for — |
| 18 | Since distribution concerns access the requirements of a distribution system , by happy chance and some contrivance , can be summed up in yet another acronym , ACCESS , standing for : |
| 19 | Most of what is unusual about man can be summed up in one word : ‘ culture ’ . |
| 20 | Niki 's phlegm about the whole incident can be summed up in what must be the driver 's quote of the decade : ‘ There is no point in having a complex about losing half an ear . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps their attitude can be summed up in a nice little phrase from one of Dally 's patients : ‘ The pleasures of eating are fleeting , but the pleasures of fasting are lasting . ’ |
| 22 | Wittgenstein 's treatment of intentionality can be summed up in one sentence from the Philosophical Grammar : ‘ It is in language that it 's all done ’ . |
| 23 | From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people . |
| 24 | The reason for this can be summed up in one word — dragons . |
| 25 | The consequences of structural change in international finance can be summed up in two words : Innovation and Mobility . |
| 26 | The reason for that failure can be summed up in one word : ‘ Next ’ . |
| 27 | If the idea of higher education being argued for in this book can be summed up in one word , that is it . |
| 28 | The most attractive reason in the current economic climate can be summed up in just one word , margin . |
| 29 | These can be summed up in the words of the Royal Society 's working party on Girls and Mathematics : |
| 30 | One important global issue can be summed up in the now widely used expression ‘ limits to growth ’ . |