Example sentences of "sum up [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell . |
| 2 | This , as Henry looked at it , the piped organ music swelling through the chapel , seemed to sum up the complete irrelevance of English literature . |
| 3 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 4 | Perhaps I might see in the rising of that sun some icon quintessentially Pacific , or think some thought which in a flash would sum up the essential message of the great Ocean . |
| 5 | Patrick Wilson beautifully summed up the overall problem in a general sense : |
| 6 | Bowie , whose admiration is tinged with honest caution , has summed up the Lacanian system in these words : |
| 7 | WHEN Ian McGeechan made his oft-quoted remark in Australia last summer that David Sole was ‘ a player 10 years ahead of his time ’ , the Lions ' coach neatly summed up the collective view of the touring party . |
| 8 | Everett True , writing in Melody Maker , probably summed up the general reaction to the shows when he wrote : ‘ It 's rock . |
| 9 | As my colleague N.K. Humphrey neatly summed up an earlier draft of this chapter ; ‘ … memes should be regarded as living structures , not just metaphorically but technically . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That sums up a fundamental assumption of this work . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Hills sums up the combined effect of the tax and benefit changes since 1979 : |
| 15 | IT IS an old joke , but it sums up the present mood in Australia . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ The enclosed photo sums up the general verdict of our recent holiday to Zakopane . |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | Somehow that incident sums up the Corinthian surroundings of British rowing — the sport that won Great Britain two Olympic gold medals last summer . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life . |
| 23 | Its position sums up the massive ego of a man who plundered millions from his empire 's pensioners . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A verse from the Sydney Bulletin in 1882 summed up a familiar controversy about how to interpret a phenomenon such as Larrikinism : We must leave the question of the origins of the ‘ Hooligan ’ style where it rests , however , as simply one murky aspect of an otherwise murky affair . |
| 28 | Hearn and others 1977 ) Lord Denning summed up the legal position of trade unions as follows : |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Curbishley 's managerial partner , Steve Gritt , summed up the new feeling within the club when he said : ‘ After Saturday we 'll be a real club again . |