Example sentences of "summed [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each of these contexts — HMI reports , APU exercises or national reading surveys — to move from national assessment to a local authority assessment and then to a school 's performance ( summed up in the achievement of its individual pupils ) provided a method of finding out whether , in some of the measurable parts of schools ' work , matters were standing still or edging forward . |
| 2 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 3 | The horrors of Belsen concentration camp , meanwhile , were eloquently summed up in the painting of Doris Zinkeisen . |
| 4 | The horrors of Belsen concentration camp , meanwhile , were eloquently summed up in the painting of Doris Zinkeisen . |
| 5 | The British contribution to the philosophy of free speech might be summed up in the Duke of Wellington 's phrase , " publish and be damned " . |
| 6 | The programme of black capitalism resurgent was summed up in the wall slogan , apropos attacking the Koreans ' stores : ‘ Day One , burn them out . |
| 7 | These purposes are those most readily associated with the objectives of the positive state which emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century and which are summed up in the idea of government as institution which promotes progressive evolutionary change . |
| 8 | The use of Western skills to strengthen Japan , often summed up in the slogan ‘ Western technology , Japanese values ’ , was a course of action supported by many . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He emphasized what is summed up in the title of Simone Weil 's book which Eliot would later preface , The Need for Roots . |
| 12 | Mr Eyre 's thesis is summed up in the title of a chapter called ‘ Acting Properly ’ . |
| 13 | At the root of this divide , as Pugin and Dickens both perceive , lie mechanical production and the profit motive , both of which are reflected in many details of the drawing , and are summed up in the subject of the lecture , advertised by the ‘ Mechanicks Institute ’ , ‘ on a new designing machine capable of making 1000 changes with the same set of ornaments ’ . |
| 14 | The gist of it was summed up in the formula cuius regio , eius religio which meant that each king or prince had the right to choose the religion of his subjects . |
| 15 | This definition was summed up in the formula libertas ecclesiae , by which was understood the independence of the Church from all lay interference in ecclesiastical appointments , in the exercise of the Church 's spiritual functions , in the administration of its temporal rights and properties , and in the immunity of clerical persons from secular jurisdiction . |
| 16 | Their findings were summed up in the feasibility study published in February 1986 , which predicted a minimum weekly sale of 800,000 and a maximum of 1.5 million . |
| 17 | Pancks 's habit of puffing and snorting , and his bustling ways around his employer are summed up in the steam-tug and barge image that CD repeatedly uses to describe them . |
| 18 | This idea of historical study as the rigorous combination of knowledge and method is central to any defence of a key position for history in the curriculum of the 1990s , and may best be summed up in the term " historical literacy " . |
| 19 | Guild members are not content with the position in the cooperative world which may be summed up in the saying of the man ‘ My wife and I are one , and I am that one ’ . |
| 20 | It is not possible to establish , even in the broadest terms , educational needs for the present , or the immediate future , without taking into account the fundamental economic and social changes which are summed up in the phrase , ‘ a post-industrial society ’ . |
| 21 | But the COS had refused to acknowledge the role of economic forces with respect to character , justifying J. A. Hobson 's jibe that their philosophy could be summed up in the phrase ‘ character is the condition of conditions ’ . |
| 22 | But the purpose of all this is summed up in the phrase : ‘ that we … might be for the praise of is glory ’ ( v 12 ) . |
| 23 | His feelings about the latter are summed up in the phrase ‘ God does not play dice . ’ |
| 24 | The rate of change and the lack of sincere consultation have led to an air of defeatism and concern which is frequently summed up in the analogy that they ( the government ) keep moving the goalposts . |
| 25 | Sutcliffe adds ( p. 149 ) : The girls ' collective perception of usage at home was summed up in the comment " plien [ plain ] English — and sometimes Jamaican' … |
| 26 | These typical senses of the infinitive are summed up in the table below : The bare infinitive is therefore no less versatile than the to infinitive in being able to express a happening as real or only potential , which is not surprising given the fact that the to infinitive is composed of the preposition to + the bare infinitive . |
| 27 | Philip Miller 's appreciation was summed up in the Abridgement of 1754 , where he considered roses to have |
| 28 | He is the son of the phallic mother who has overcome her and fused with her to become a living equivalent of the perfect primal mother , not through self-castration ( the depressive alternative ) , but through manic self-assertion : a sentiment nicely summed up in the ritual of Cybele and her son Attis : ‘ a feeding on milk , as though we were born again ; after which rejoicing and garlands and as it were a return to the gods . |