Example sentences of "sums up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , the Prime Minister sums up the sense of the meeting . |
| 2 | For example , Chafe sums up the expression of givenness as follows : |
| 3 | This neatly sums up the sources of wealth , external and internal , which paid for the great Acropolis building programme . |
| 4 | Its title sums up the attitude of many people to what is an essential feature of working life — namely , meetings . |
| 5 | The quotation at the beginning of the book : ‘ Vengeance is mine ; I will repay ’ continues ‘ Saith the Lord ’ ( from the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 12,19 ) sums up the way in which Anna was treated . |
| 6 | With this paragraph in the preface to Newsletter Writing and Production Handbook for the Spirited Journalist , editor Alfonso B Deza sums up the philosophy of the handbook . |
| 7 | His dying request sums up the faith of a lifetime . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's different from England but they 'll soon get used to it ’ often sums up the attitudes of those who play a part in posting staff overseas but who have not lived abroad themselves . |
| 9 | But perhaps this best sums up the case for the prosecution . |
| 10 | Denis Healey , that brutally muscular intellect , sums up the problem in his memoirs , The Time of My Life . |
| 11 | Regions of the old DDR have been subsumed into the new federal states of Germany , and many of the sources are housed in what must now be called the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin , Preussischer Kulturbesitz — a name that in itself sums up the problems of uniting the two Germanies . |
| 12 | In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’ |
| 13 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |
| 14 | Another must is the booklet that sums up the findings of the World Fertility Survey , World Fertility Survey — Major Findings and Implications , and its companion volume of statistics , Fertility in the Developing World , both obtainable from the WFS at 35-37 Grosvenor Gardens , London SW1W 0BS , UK . |
| 15 | We all agreed on Giacometti , because the ‘ Naso ’ sums up the idea of potential space as a work of art , and that is the basic assumption of ‘ Documenta IX ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I dare say that sums up the extent of your humanitarian ambitions ! ’ she snapped shortly , then with an inward groan she belatedly remembered her worthy intentions regarding Sarah Chester 's . |
| 17 | Max Caulfield , in his biography of Mrs Whitehouse , sums up the argument in one sentence , saying ‘ as to the purpose of all this frenzy it was easy to explain that the forces of revolution , unable to achieve their objectives at the ballot box or , because of the existence of the nuclear bomb , by full-scale war , were endeavouring to encourage moral decay ’ . |
| 18 | Hamelink sums up the impact of informatics in the developed countries in a manner that suggests a gloomy future for Third World countries caught in the TNC-woven web of private and public communications . |
| 19 | In this passage , which is very near the end of the book , he ironically sums up the manner in which the hypocritical bureaucrats of Whitehall and Washington dealt with their own inadequacies when their major spying operation went wrong . |
| 20 | It is a remark that effectively sums up the difference between himself and the rest of the band . |
| 21 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 22 | The exception is the competent and confident young reader like Sharon in Donald Fry 's study ( 1985 , p. 115 ) , who sums up The children of the New Forest with the words ‘ a lot to read for a little bit to happen ’ . |
| 23 | Speaking through Hosea , God himself sums up the lesson of Israel 's failure : ‘ They were filled , and , being filled , grew proud ; and so they forgot me . ’ |
| 24 | She sums up the situation by saying that the reconstituted family is never the same as the biological family . |
| 25 | Hrdlicka sums up the value of the longbones in sexing by saying that in the male they are longer , heavier and have larger attachment areas for muscles , ( including the linea aspera , crests , tuberosities and impressions ) ( Stewart , 1947 ) . |
| 26 | Weeell , to our knowledge , no-one else quite sums up the paper over the past ten or so years — rarely has a pop personage and his relationship with a music paper produced so many sparks , so much debate , so much excellent copy , and ( ahem ) so many yards of Angst . |
| 27 | This quotation sums up the reason for the publication by WACC of Few Voices , Many Worlds . |
| 28 | Barraga ( 1976 ) sums up the implications of its usage by stating that : ‘ A visually handicapped child is one whose impairment interferes with his optimum learning and achievement , unless adaptations are made in the methods of presenting learning experiences , the nature of the materials used , and/or in the learning environment . ’ |
| 29 | He 's not just someone who can communicate a point well ; he sums up the point in himself . |
| 30 | Joseph Rothschild sums up the effect of these events : ‘ Facts became taboo and suspicion pervasive . |