Example sentences of "sum up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 2 | Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag . |
| 3 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 4 | If we attempt to sum up the character of these innovations , we must say that they are practical but unprincipled . |
| 5 | The nonchalant dismissal of the worth of Birmingham by Jane Austen 's Mrs Elton seems to sum up the attitudes of many people towards the city . |
| 6 | It 's a work that must have seemed to sum up the traumas of the war years and their aftermath for you ? |
| 7 | I call the subject ‘ Jesus — our pioneer ’ because that seems to sum up the thrust of the idea . |
| 8 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 9 | Zuwaya nearly always used ‘ Arab government ’ to compare their present unfavourably with the past , to sum up the virtues of a golden age : heroism and independence , autonomy , fraternal solidarities , an absence of hierarchy . |
| 10 | It is difficult to sum up the succession of kings and sub kings who schemed and killed their way to brief spells of power — eight of them in one century — or to keep in steady perspective the shifting boundaries and aspirations of petty earldoms and self-proclaimed kingdoms . |
| 11 | We can sum up the thread of the argument here by saying that binary oppositions , such as masculine/feminine , are not themselves the first principles of semantics and human cognition , they are a system grafted on in the attempt to analyse those things . |
| 12 | Those chilling words — official indifference and lack of care — may well sum up the experience of refugees in many countries , not just our own . |
| 13 | Does this sum up the kind of house you want , or have I missed something ? |
| 14 | Its General Secretary , Max Nicholson , has summed up the thrust of much of its work as being : to supersede piecemeal treatment of public policy by co-ordinated policies founded on ‘ fact-based ’ and ‘ research-based ’ programmes ; reliable decision-making based upon accurate and comprehensive forecasting ; and the implementation of policy through democratic principles . |
| 15 | Many people have summed up the effect of a minimum wage . |
| 16 | David Downes ( 1983 ) aptly summed up the irony of ‘ law and order ’ being seen as a Conservative concern , when he called it ‘ theft of an issue ’ . |
| 17 | For a large number of charges we sum up the contribution of each dipole moment . |
| 18 | Alcohol-soaked cherries sum up the bouquet of this unusual Dornfelder . |
| 19 | Each of these sections end with a couple of sentences which sum up the consequences of Pip 's attitudes to life in that particular section . |
| 20 | And it must be appropriate and sum up the style of the development and its location . ’ |
| 21 | Phrases such as ‘ TINA ’ ( ‘ there is no alternative ’ ) in answer to critics of her economic policy , and ‘ We want our money ’ ( ‘ I can not play Sister Bountiful to the Community ’ ) to her EEC partners over the perennial problem of Britain 's budget payments , sum up the spirit of what she feels and argues . |
| 22 | Here instead are two famous paragraphs from Quine 's ‘ Two Dogmas of Empiricism ’ , which sum up the spirit of this fashionable alternative to Positive science : |
| 23 | Rather , the Prime Minister sums up the sense of the meeting . |
| 24 | For example , Chafe sums up the expression of givenness as follows : |
| 25 | This neatly sums up the sources of wealth , external and internal , which paid for the great Acropolis building programme . |
| 26 | Its title sums up the attitude of many people to what is an essential feature of working life — namely , meetings . |
| 27 | With this paragraph in the preface to Newsletter Writing and Production Handbook for the Spirited Journalist , editor Alfonso B Deza sums up the philosophy of the handbook . |
| 28 | His dying request sums up the faith of a lifetime . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's different from England but they 'll soon get used to it ’ often sums up the attitudes of those who play a part in posting staff overseas but who have not lived abroad themselves . |
| 30 | Regions of the old DDR have been subsumed into the new federal states of Germany , and many of the sources are housed in what must now be called the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin , Preussischer Kulturbesitz — a name that in itself sums up the problems of uniting the two Germanies . |