Example sentences of "sums up the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Denis Healey , that brutally muscular intellect , sums up the problem in his memoirs , The Time of My Life . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 's not just someone who can communicate a point well ; he sums up the point in himself . |