Example sentences of "summed up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1977 a Council planner summed up the development of the argument from his point of view : — |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | An Estonian delegate to an August conference summed up the sense of frustration : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Quickly Folly summed up the story of her meeting with Luke . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | One supporter summed up the feelings of them all about the authorities who took them away . |
| 19 | Eritrean media expert Hanna Simon summed up the feelings of the group : ‘ We believe the media still can and should be a means of national mobilisation for the tasks of reconstruction , but it also has to be a forum for national debate and the free airing of different views , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Eritrean media expert Hanna Simon summed up the feelings of the group : ‘ We believe the media still can and should be a means of national mobilisation for the tasks of reconstruction , but it also has to be a forum for national debate and the free airing of different views , ’ she said . |
| 21 | And the father of the youngest victim , Ian Lilley , summed up the feelings of an entire community . |
| 22 | Writing in 1928 the American critic Gilbert Seldes summed up the process of how the movies had accumulated their audience as one which |
| 23 | The results of their labours appeared in the party press in 1989 ; they summed up the perspectives of the most strongly reformist section of the social science community . |
| 24 | If ever a sentence summed up the gale of change that is blasting through Yorkshire cricket this season it is that one . |
| 25 | This summed up the view of many : in previous decades intellectuals were frequently punished for being politically ‘ reactionary ’ , i.e. rightists . |
| 26 | ‘ NO OTHER PLACE in the UK can lay claim to so much aeronautical history , ’ was how Sir Peter Masefield , Chairman of the Brooklands Museum Trust summed up the status of the famous site at the ‘ launch ’ of their 1992 season plans . |
| 27 | Dr Hallauer summed up the importance of vaccinating healthcare workers against hepatitis B , not only to protect their own health but also for the good of others . |
| 28 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 29 | Thus Dr David Evans summed up the reaction of Catalytic Systems Division to the double award in 1993 of the Queens Award for Environmental Achievement and the Queen 's Award for Export Achievement to CSD in the UK . |
| 30 | De Valois summed up the ideas of these two great choreographers by saying : ‘ Only synchronisation of arms and legs will give symmetry to step and pose , strength to the jump , speed to the pirouettes , calm to the adage and spaciousness to the dance . ’ |