Example sentences of "summed up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One respondent in the Yorkshire survey summed up the difficulties : ‘ One has to recognise that the pressures on consultants are increasing steadily — workload , management , teaching , financial control , reduction of juniors ’ hours … |
| 2 | The Chairman summed up the changes succinctly : |
| 3 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 4 | Mike Evans , Managing Director of Pacplas , summed up the judges ' view : ‘ First , they 've achieved a great deal and the spirit of the team means they 'll get better and better . |
| 5 | The BRU summed up the principles in eight points . |
| 6 | He summed up the benefits of open systems to Harris as including a reduction in operating costs of between 60% and 75% , functional staff reductions of between 20-50% , software maintenance savings of between 50% and 60% and cost avoidance in the region of $250m to $300m , this being based on the cost per MIPS of a mainframe , $44,300 , compared with a workstation server of $761 per MIPS . |
| 7 | The government White Paper issued as a prelude to the reorganisation of local government in England outlined the aims which a new system should incorporate : At the start of the next paragraph the White Paper summed up the problems inherent in this approach with a statement of the classic political dilemma : ‘ Practical realities prevent all these aims being fully achieved together ’ ( DOE 1971:6 ) . |
| 8 | Sir Robert Walpole summed up the motives which had persuaded the government to enable the debt transfer by the South Sea Act ( 6 George I c. 4 ) of 1720 . |
| 9 | In a speech at a national conference on industrial production made on Aug. 2 and released on Oct. 8 , Li Peng warned against " blind " over-rapid growth , and summed up the policies to be continued into the first two years of the forthcoming eighth five-year plan as " rectification and the deepening of reform " , with the emphasis on central control . |
| 10 | This summed up the feelings behind the protest . |
| 11 | Record Mirror said the band ‘ summed up the feelings of the nation 's would be non-conformist youth by being irritatingly ordinary , by creating a neighbourly sound of overwhelming inconspicuousness . ’ |
| 12 | Joe summed up the feelings of them all when he said , ‘ It was a wonderful experience , but I 'm glad it 's all over and pleased to be home . ’ |
| 13 | One supporter summed up the feelings of them all about the authorities who took them away . |
| 14 | Eritrean media expert Hanna Simon summed up the feelings of the group : ‘ We believe the media still can and should be a means of national mobilisation for the tasks of reconstruction , but it also has to be a forum for national debate and the free airing of different views , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Eritrean media expert Hanna Simon summed up the feelings of the group : ‘ We believe the media still can and should be a means of national mobilisation for the tasks of reconstruction , but it also has to be a forum for national debate and the free airing of different views , ’ she said . |
| 16 | And the father of the youngest victim , Ian Lilley , summed up the feelings of an entire community . |
| 17 | The workshop was convened by Graeme Pearman , an atmospheric chemist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 's Division of Atmospheric Research at Mordialloc , in Victoria , who summed up the issues . |
| 18 | The results of their labours appeared in the party press in 1989 ; they summed up the perspectives of the most strongly reformist section of the social science community . |
| 19 | Lord Denning M.R. summed up the facts by saying , at p. 286 : |
| 20 | I feel you summed up the points we discussed very fairly and produced two worthwhile and coherent papers . |
| 21 | De Valois summed up the ideas of these two great choreographers by saying : ‘ Only synchronisation of arms and legs will give symmetry to step and pose , strength to the jump , speed to the pirouettes , calm to the adage and spaciousness to the dance . ’ |