Example sentences of "[noun] sum up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progressive rock was OVER-CONCEPTUAL made risible attempts to sum up all the riddles of existence on a single ( or triple ) LP , extended these pompous didactic ambitions on to the stage with all manner of theatrical set pieces . |
| 2 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 3 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 4 | These are the full stops to a paragraph that give the audience an opportunity to sum up — as it were — how the Bride 's hair is cut ; why the men convey the Groom to the Bride 's house ; how the Bride and Groom are blessed by their parents ; and so on . |
| 5 | A meeting at the end of the Summer term provides an opportunity to sum up progress over the year and to talk parents through school reports particularly in terms of National Curriculum attainment levels and programmes of study . |
| 6 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 7 | Then , instead of ending with a bang , the broadcast trailed off into more endorsements , leaving a slogan to sum up : ‘ It 's time for a change ; vote Labour . ’ |
| 8 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 9 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 10 | The two volumes of her so-called biography were received unenthusiastically by reviewers who could not know the extent to which it was Hardy 's own attempt to sum up his views on lifelong preoccupations such as the nature of art , life , and man 's cruelty to man and the other animals . |
| 11 | She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story . |
| 12 | ‘ Documenta ’ is not even an attempt to sum up contemporary art , but is an expression of very personal viewpoints . |
| 13 | Chekov 's melodramatic last words sum up the film quite neatly : ‘ Well I guess this is goodbye ! ’ |
| 14 | These words sum up her intention and feelings , expressing the result of two years of preparation for a show that came to mean so much for the many artists participating in the event . |
| 15 | Alcohol-soaked cherries sum up the bouquet of this unusual Dornfelder . |
| 16 | Therefore , these two speeches sum up the difference between Brutus and Cassius : Brutus works unselfishly and nobly for the good of the people of Rome , disregarding personal cost ( for it did cost Brutus a lot to kill Caesar ) , while Cassius is jealous of Caesar 's great power and begins the conspiracy with hopes of gaining more prestige and power for himself . |
| 17 | Vivian de Sola Pinto sums up the qualities required of this kind of professional scholar as a capacity for " exact scholarship " , an extensive " knowledge " of language and literature , and — if possible — " the most perfect taste and tact " . |
| 18 | Hill sums up the 1992 housing market in one word — ‘ weird ’ . |
| 19 | Whitty sums up Hine 's argument thus : |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 22 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 23 | Chanel sums up the new colour and shape of accessories . |
| 24 | A happy holiday course in a sublime setting sums up Ufford Park nicely . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | An anonymous Anglican critic summed up the vitality and confidence of the ministry by the end of the century . |
| 27 | Jacques 's famous Principes summed up an era of flute playing , presenting a retrospective view , in a way comparable to the methods of Corrette ( c. 1734 ) , the first method for the four-piece flute , and that of Devienne ( 1795 ) , the last significant French method for the one-keyed flute . |
| 28 | At the question session afterwards , one disgruntled UFO watcher summed up the audience 's feelings : ‘ If you want to talk about psychology , why do n't you bugger off to a psychology conference . |
| 29 | For North it has been a disappointing season and Saturday 's 57-run defeat summed up their form this year . |
| 30 | In speeches summing up for Yeltsin it was claimed that about 40,000,000 people had been " eliminated " by the CPSU , and that 19,840,000 " enemies of the people " had been repressed . |