Example sentences of "[noun] summed up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One study summed up the overall situation as follows : |
| 2 | Al Gore summed up the changing world when he said that he and Clinton were the first two leaders of their country to be born after 1945 . |
| 3 | Hearn and others 1977 ) Lord Denning summed up the legal position of trade unions as follows : |
| 4 | It was hot , and everyone was very cross by the time Tim Peacock from Broxtowe summed up the general consensus : ‘ We 've been stuffed , ’ writes John Pienaar . |
| 5 | An observer summed up the typical bourgeois of Lille as a man who ‘ fears God , but above all his wife , and reads the Echo du Nord ’ , and this is at least as likely a reading of the facts of bourgeois family life as the male-formulated theory of female helplessness and dependence , sometimes pathologically exaggerated into the masculine dream , and occasional practice , of the child-wife selected and formed by the future husband . |
| 6 | His daughter summed up the real emotions of herself and her mother . |
| 7 | Judge Gabriel Hutton summed up the tragic case . |
| 8 | Maine summed up the crucial developments of human history in his famous formula of the ‘ movement of the progressive societies from Status to Contract ’ . |
| 9 | Noel Blake summed up the general view : ‘ I always wanted to be a footballer ; there was never anything else . ’ |
| 10 | Harry Truman summed up the central dilemma of presidential power when , in reference to his successor , he said , ‘ He 'll sit here , and he 'll say , ‘ Do this ! |
| 11 | The philosopher Francis Bacon and many of his contemporaries summed up the scientific attitude of the times when they insisted that if we want to understand nature we must consult nature and not the writings of Aristotle . |