Example sentences of "sum up [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the company is uniquely placed to sum up current interest in alternative fuels for diesel and petrol engines . |
| 2 | We can sum up this discussion of exam questions with the following pieces of guidance ( in Chapter 5 , we consider in more detail how you actually write the passages which perform the functions we suggest here ) : * Write an introductory paragraph , but do n't use it as a way to put off answering the question . |
| 3 | Professor Dworkin ( 1988 : 7–8 ) has summed up present attitudes to liberty in his trenchant piece in Index on Censorship : |
| 4 | Ogden Nash , the 20th century American poet , probably summed up popular attitudes about this bird when he wrote : |
| 5 | An old prayer to Mithra sums up this duality in his nature : |
| 6 | Bailey sums up this pair of purposes under the head of ‘ instrumentalism ’ . |
| 7 | Goodfellow sums up this area of law . |
| 8 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 9 | Auerbach prefers the more sweeping , synthesizing statement that sums up stylistic tendencies in evocative , metaphorical language rather than in technical terminology ; he draws much less on modern linguistics than on the older tradition of philological scholarship . |
| 10 | IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference . |
| 11 | However , the word can equally be translated ‘ to recapitulate ’ , meaning that Christ summed up all things in himself . |
| 12 | We had , we had to conservative speakers so far , erm , and Councillor Brock seem to me , in a sense to be summing up that phrase about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing , because there was the the the es essential arithmetical calculation about percentages , and savings . |
| 13 | ‘ Critics always prefer the things that are not pop , ’ says Susanna , summing up 25 years of the music press in nine words . |