Example sentences of "sums [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The last paragraph sums up a standard hermeneutic objection to behaviourism .
2 This last proverb sums up a traditional view of debt as a last-resort means of affording necessities , when the alternative would be immediate hardship , perhaps disaster .
3 That sums up a fundamental assumption of this work .
4 In this way the tabernacle sums up a basic biblical truth about religion : it must conform to the will and nature of God .
5 Dick Lindsell sums up a notable achievement in this way : ‘ C&P having been conveived and put into motion by ICI in a move which some saw as defensive , I believe that we are now increasingly demonstrating that we are as attractive as other ICI businesses .
6 McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin .
7 Hills sums up the combined effect of the tax and benefit changes since 1979 :
8 That sums up the Labour party 's attitude , which is against a roads policy .
9 This view sums up the present Conservative philosophy , seen in government policies towards the welfare state , local government and taxation .
10 IT IS an old joke , but it sums up the present mood in Australia .
11 An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants .
12 They 're saying that after all IBM Corp has been through , hiring a guy from RJR Nabisco Corp really takes the biscuit , and Reuter sums up the new round of IBM woes succinctly : the headline on Tuesday night read 24MAR93 USA : IBM TUMBLES ON MAINFRAME CONCERN , GERSTNER .
13 Chanel sums up the new colour and shape of accessories .
14 That , perhaps , sums up the entire package : a slightly addled Lord Chancellor 's egg .
15 One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later :
16 ‘ The enclosed photo sums up the general verdict of our recent holiday to Zakopane .
17 That sums up the cynical hypocrisy and political opportunism of Labour .
18 Somehow that incident sums up the Corinthian surroundings of British rowing — the sport that won Great Britain two Olympic gold medals last summer .
19 In mediaeval times , Stephen Harding 's phrase Laborare est orare ( ‘ to work is to pray ’ ) sums up the central role which labour played in people 's lives .
20 It is from Hear The Children Calling and sums up the real reason for both Carrie and the other children 's doings , however murderous they may have seemed …
21 The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life .
22 Its position sums up the massive ego of a man who plundered millions from his empire 's pensioners .
23 But Chris Smith sums up the make-or-break situation of the market in turmoil : ‘ The low end of the market is thinner than it used to be , and the other buyers do n't want to mess around with scrapyards . ’
24 ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war .
25 This clearly sums up the Conservative attitude to taxation and , most importantly , it views the alleviation of poverty as part of an overall policy to improve prosperity for everyone .
26 Farber sums up the whole process :
27 The stark juxtaposition of these two statements sums up the whole dilemma facing arts teachers , and consequently illustrates the central issue I want to discuss in this chapter .
28 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 .
29 Perhaps the chorus of the English people , which its wide-arching melody and plangent harmonising , sums up the whole work .
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