Example sentences of "can [be] summed [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My view of the Common market can be summed up in four words and three of them are … the Common Market . ’
2 ‘ 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 . ’
3 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 .
4 Its constant , playful , inventive forging of a self-contained language can be summed up by the novel 's own phrase , ‘ say mangraphique , may say nay por daguerre ! ’ .
5 These words can be summed up in an acronym DOSES .
6 Storage is concerned with space and , conveniently as so often happens , requirements can be summed up in an acronym this time SPACES which stands for —
7 Since distribution concerns access the requirements of a distribution system , by happy chance and some contrivance , can be summed up in yet another acronym , ACCESS , standing for :
8 The difference between car and train can be summed up quite simply .
9 Most of what is unusual about man can be summed up in one word : ‘ culture ’ .
10 Fundamentally , it is the differences in composition that are responsible for all the variations between the extremes , and this produces an interesting chain of cause and effect which can be summed up like this :
11 There are two types of explanation on offer , which can be summed up as ‘ allergic explanations ’ and ‘ deficiency explanations ’ .
12 Furthermore , China has been compelled to accept western technology by that universal and all-powerful human trait , which can be summed up thus : — ‘ Human beings are satisfied with the status quo only so long as nothing more attractive is experienced ’ .
13 The whole of Bukharin 's arguments in this period , 1928–9 , can be summed up as being directed towards the development of an optimum rate of investment and growth as opposed to maximum investment rates .
14 Botswana has no foreign debt and a stable currency — the pula ( about three to the Pounds ) — and its tourism policy can be summed up as high cost , low volume .
15 Niki 's phlegm about the whole incident can be summed up in what must be the driver 's quote of the decade : ‘ There is no point in having a complex about losing half an ear . ’
16 Perhaps their attitude can be summed up in a nice little phrase from one of Dally 's patients : ‘ The pleasures of eating are fleeting , but the pleasures of fasting are lasting . ’
17 The project of Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge can be summed up as the attempt to study the relation between knowledge and social structure .
18 These varied functions of the educational advisory services for visually handicapped pupils can be summed up as ‘ enabling ’ .
19 Wittgenstein 's treatment of intentionality can be summed up in one sentence from the Philosophical Grammar : ‘ It is in language that it 's all done ’ .
20 From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people .
21 With regard to the foundation on which his advocacy of the primacy was based , it can be summed up by saying that he thought it was an integral part of the rights of the church committed to his care , testified to by the living members of the community and the tradition which they inherited .
22 The reason for this can be summed up in one word — dragons .
23 The Cockroft Report ( 1984 ) gave a most encouraging survey of good practice and advocated an approach which can be summed up through the mnemonic SPIDER : .
24 The consequences of structural change in international finance can be summed up in two words : Innovation and Mobility .
25 They can be summed up by remarking yet once more that if you consider sexuality and sexual topics legitimate and natural , your manner will adjust itself .
26 What do the changes which can be summed up as ‘ modernization plus deindustrialization ’ amount to in terms of consequences for people ?
27 Only later did Sukarno reveal the full venom of his animosity ( ‘ While I was taking hammer blows on the head his entire underground effort can be summed up by saying he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio ’ ) .
28 The reason for that failure can be summed up in one word : ‘ Next ’ .
29 Perhaps the two main sets of determinants can be summed up under ‘ economies of scale ’ and ‘ economies of scope ’ .
30 So far , Firbas ' approach to information flow can be summed up as follows .
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