Example sentences of "summed up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Exhibitors Film Exchange found the theme , which has the heiress played by Charlotte Walker learning ‘ what life is and what are the actual conditions under which many of her fellow human beings live ’ , plausible and summed up the photoplay as a ‘ strong arraignment of existing working conditions in certain localities ’ . |
| 2 | It never crosses Hoving 's mind that Ingres is an artist by whom it is impossible to own too many works — nor , for that matter , that the ‘ uninspired portrait of the Marechal Count Gerard , which to me summed up the pomposity of Bonaparte 's court ’ ( one of the Ingres mentioned in Hoving 's list ) is in fact a fine , signed and dated , late work by Jacques-Louis David ! |
| 3 | Sir Mark summed up the mood of SERC when he commented that ‘ despite a difficult climate , SERC had been able to respond imaginatively to the financial situation . ’ |
| 4 | At a recent Royal Institute of British Architects ' conference , author Simon Inglis summed up the mood of many anti-relocation fans , unswayed by the clubs ' need for cash . |
| 5 | One back-bench MP summed up the mood of the Scottish parliamentary party , saying : ‘ If he does n't make the grade by the end of the year then there 's no way I 'd vote for him again . |
| 6 | The Midlands leader of the pit deputies union NACODS was first to emerge from the review meeting at Edwinstowe Ray Hilton summed up the mood of the mining unions . |
| 7 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 8 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 9 | He summed up the system of increasing productivity plus high-pressure advertising and salesmanship , plus mass communications , in the word Admass — ‘ the creation of the mass mind , the mass man . ’ |
| 10 | Ian Rush , who enjoyed Rosenthal 's attacking company after his frustrating lone furrow against Spartak Moscow , summed up the case for the Israeli 's defence when he said : ‘ Sometimes I do n't think Ronny knows what he 's doing so defenders certainly are n't going to know . ’ |
| 11 | Smith , who summed up the philosophy as one of ‘ Discipline and Religion ’ , hoped that by emphasizing masculinity and the becoming of ‘ Christian men ’ , the boys would come to see the ‘ manliness of Christianity ’ and that this would counter their tendency to regard it as ‘ effeminate and weak ’ , an idea which seemed to be too popular . |
| 12 | The Evening News summed up the affair by calling for greater public vigilance to root out the canker of immorality : ‘ England has tolerated the man Wilde for too long … he was a social pest , a centre of intellectual corruption … who attacked all wholesome , manly , simple ideals of English life . ’ |
| 13 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 14 | In 1977 a Council planner summed up the development of the argument from his point of view : — |
| 15 | That , he admitted on his return , summed up the gloom in the Irish camp as the national team failed to secure the top six finish they needed to win a place in next year 's World Cup finals in Sydney . |
| 16 | That , he admitted on his return , summed up the gloom in the Irish camp as the national team failed to secure the top six finish they needed to win a place in next year 's World Cup finals in Sydney . |
| 17 | The BRU summed up the principles in eight points . |
| 18 | He summed up the benefits of open systems to Harris as including a reduction in operating costs of between 60% and 75% , functional staff reductions of between 20-50% , software maintenance savings of between 50% and 60% and cost avoidance in the region of $250m to $300m , this being based on the cost per MIPS of a mainframe , $44,300 , compared with a workstation server of $761 per MIPS . |
| 19 | The Old Stager summed up the problem for the benefit of the nine team members within earshot . |
| 20 | Jennie summed up the problem in an instant and walked along the row pouring a bottle of disinfectant on their injuries , doubling their pain . |
| 21 | Although some speakers urged everyone who agreed with some proposition to show their hand , at no time was a vote taken : the chairman summed up the sense of the meeting after each item , announcing what he thought Kufra 's delegates were mandated to say at the National Assembly . |
| 22 | An Estonian delegate to an August conference summed up the sense of frustration : |
| 23 | In a speech at a national conference on industrial production made on Aug. 2 and released on Oct. 8 , Li Peng warned against " blind " over-rapid growth , and summed up the policies to be continued into the first two years of the forthcoming eighth five-year plan as " rectification and the deepening of reform " , with the emphasis on central control . |
| 24 | In writing with this frankly propagandist aim — to focus on Jesus Christ — the disciple was bring faithful to the remarkable way in which his Master summed up the purpose of all Scripture . |
| 25 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 26 | The young Hugh Gaitskell , who had become aware of the dangers of fascism on his visit to Austria in the summer of 1933 and was greatly influenced by Dalton , summed up the attitude of this group by arguing that a general strike against all wars was ‘ an invitation to the fascist aggressors . ’ |
| 27 | NOTHING summed up the supremacy of the Canon Williams Renault team this season more completely on Sunday than Ayrton Senna 's early and silent exit from Interlagos as Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese lapped the field on their way to a third successive one-two triumph in the Brazilian Grand Prix . |
| 28 | Quickly Folly summed up the story of her meeting with Luke . |
| 29 | Record Mirror said the band ‘ summed up the feelings of the nation 's would be non-conformist youth by being irritatingly ordinary , by creating a neighbourly sound of overwhelming inconspicuousness . ’ |
| 30 | Joe summed up the feelings of them all when he said , ‘ It was a wonderful experience , but I 'm glad it 's all over and pleased to be home . ’ |