Example sentences of "summed up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Exhibitors Film Exchange found the theme , which has the heiress played by Charlotte Walker learning ‘ what life is and what are the actual conditions under which many of her fellow human beings live ’ , plausible and summed up the photoplay as a ‘ strong arraignment of existing working conditions in certain localities ’ . |
| 2 | It never crosses Hoving 's mind that Ingres is an artist by whom it is impossible to own too many works — nor , for that matter , that the ‘ uninspired portrait of the Marechal Count Gerard , which to me summed up the pomposity of Bonaparte 's court ’ ( one of the Ingres mentioned in Hoving 's list ) is in fact a fine , signed and dated , late work by Jacques-Louis David ! |
| 3 | One ambulanceman summed up the mood as he threw his hands up in disgust and muttered : ‘ Absolute rubbish . |
| 4 | Sir Mark summed up the mood of SERC when he commented that ‘ despite a difficult climate , SERC had been able to respond imaginatively to the financial situation . ’ |
| 5 | Ranjan Gohin , 36 , summed up the mood saying : ‘ I 've been working at John Lewis for 14 years and I do n't think this will put me off . |
| 6 | Roger Lawson , Institute vice-president , summed up the mood when he told delegates that ‘ the days when accountants in industry and business were criticised , at times justifiably , as beancounters , are over ’ . |
| 7 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 8 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 9 | At a recent Royal Institute of British Architects ' conference , author Simon Inglis summed up the mood of many anti-relocation fans , unswayed by the clubs ' need for cash . |
| 10 | One woman activist summed up the mood : ‘ We get crumbs from the table but we 're never allowed a seat . ’ |
| 11 | One back-bench MP summed up the mood of the Scottish parliamentary party , saying : ‘ If he does n't make the grade by the end of the year then there 's no way I 'd vote for him again . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He summed up the system of increasing productivity plus high-pressure advertising and salesmanship , plus mass communications , in the word Admass — ‘ the creation of the mass mind , the mass man . ’ |
| 14 | Ian Rush , who enjoyed Rosenthal 's attacking company after his frustrating lone furrow against Spartak Moscow , summed up the case for the Israeli 's defence when he said : ‘ Sometimes I do n't think Ronny knows what he 's doing so defenders certainly are n't going to know . ’ |
| 15 | Smith , who summed up the philosophy as one of ‘ Discipline and Religion ’ , hoped that by emphasizing masculinity and the becoming of ‘ Christian men ’ , the boys would come to see the ‘ manliness of Christianity ’ and that this would counter their tendency to regard it as ‘ effeminate and weak ’ , an idea which seemed to be too popular . |
| 16 | The Evening News summed up the affair by calling for greater public vigilance to root out the canker of immorality : ‘ England has tolerated the man Wilde for too long … he was a social pest , a centre of intellectual corruption … who attacked all wholesome , manly , simple ideals of English life . ’ |
| 17 | For many who in the early twentieth century longed for the ‘ regeneration ’ of Spain , the phrase ‘ oligarchy and caciquismo ’ summed up the country 's ills . |
| 18 | In 1977 a Council planner summed up the development of the argument from his point of view : — |
| 19 | Judith Church , Health and Safety Officer of the Manufacturing , Science and Finance Union summed up the government 's attitude to health and safety as : |
| 20 | That , he admitted on his return , summed up the gloom in the Irish camp as the national team failed to secure the top six finish they needed to win a place in next year 's World Cup finals in Sydney . |
| 21 | That , he admitted on his return , summed up the gloom in the Irish camp as the national team failed to secure the top six finish they needed to win a place in next year 's World Cup finals in Sydney . |
| 22 | The Black Report summed up the position as follows : ‘ Among 1–4 year olds … almost all the differences in mortality rate between social class I and V are due to : accidents , poisoning and violence ; respiratory disease ; and congenital abnormalities. , – During late childhood ( 5–14 years ) accidents rather than illness are the major cause of death . |
| 23 | Jennie summed up the problem in an instant and walked along the row pouring a bottle of disinfectant on their injuries , doubling their pain . |
| 24 | The Old Stager summed up the problem for the benefit of the nine team members within earshot . |
| 25 | ‘ Without a trade , without a craft , without any values — scrap iron that does not count , rubbish fit only for the waste heap ’ is how Canon Henry Scott Holland summed up the problem : ‘ We the public have used him up : he is no more to us now than a squeezed orange . ’ |
| 26 | Although some speakers urged everyone who agreed with some proposition to show their hand , at no time was a vote taken : the chairman summed up the sense of the meeting after each item , announcing what he thought Kufra 's delegates were mandated to say at the National Assembly . |
| 27 | An Estonian delegate to an August conference summed up the sense of frustration : |
| 28 | One doctor summed up the change : ‘ We 've actually seen them for once ; they 've been out here visiting just to make sure that we are aware of their potential services . ’ |
| 29 | An old miner in Barnsley summed up the euphoria : |
| 30 | In writing with this frankly propagandist aim — to focus on Jesus Christ — the disciple was bring faithful to the remarkable way in which his Master summed up the purpose of all Scripture . |