Example sentences of "sums [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last proverb sums up a traditional view of debt as a last-resort means of affording necessities , when the alternative would be immediate hardship , perhaps disaster . |
| 2 | That sums up a fundamental assumption of this work . |
| 3 | Dick Lindsell sums up a notable achievement in this way : ‘ C&P having been conveived and put into motion by ICI in a move which some saw as defensive , I believe that we are now increasingly demonstrating that we are as attractive as other ICI businesses . |
| 4 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 5 | Hills sums up the combined effect of the tax and benefit changes since 1979 : |
| 6 | That sums up the Labour party 's attitude , which is against a roads policy . |
| 7 | IT IS an old joke , but it sums up the present mood in Australia . |
| 8 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 9 | Chanel sums up the new colour and shape of accessories . |
| 10 | They 're saying that after all IBM Corp has been through , hiring a guy from RJR Nabisco Corp really takes the biscuit , and Reuter sums up the new round of IBM woes succinctly : the headline on Tuesday night read 24MAR93 USA : IBM TUMBLES ON MAINFRAME CONCERN , GERSTNER . |
| 11 | That , perhaps , sums up the entire package : a slightly addled Lord Chancellor 's egg . |
| 12 | ‘ The enclosed photo sums up the general verdict of our recent holiday to Zakopane . |
| 13 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 14 | That sums up the cynical hypocrisy and political opportunism of Labour . |
| 15 | Somehow that incident sums up the Corinthian surroundings of British rowing — the sport that won Great Britain two Olympic gold medals last summer . |
| 16 | In mediaeval times , Stephen Harding 's phrase Laborare est orare ( ‘ to work is to pray ’ ) sums up the central role which labour played in people 's lives . |
| 17 | It is from Hear The Children Calling and sums up the real reason for both Carrie and the other children 's doings , however murderous they may have seemed … |
| 18 | The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life . |
| 19 | Its position sums up the massive ego of a man who plundered millions from his empire 's pensioners . |
| 20 | But Chris Smith sums up the make-or-break situation of the market in turmoil : ‘ The low end of the market is thinner than it used to be , and the other buyers do n't want to mess around with scrapyards . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 22 | This clearly sums up the Conservative attitude to taxation and , most importantly , it views the alleviation of poverty as part of an overall policy to improve prosperity for everyone . |
| 23 | Perhaps the chorus of the English people , which its wide-arching melody and plangent harmonising , sums up the whole work . |
| 24 | Farber sums up the whole process : |
| 25 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |
| 26 | The stark juxtaposition of these two statements sums up the whole dilemma facing arts teachers , and consequently illustrates the central issue I want to discuss in this chapter . |