Example sentences of "be summed up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the root of this divide , as Pugin and Dickens both perceive , lie mechanical production and the profit motive , both of which are reflected in many details of the drawing , and are summed up in the subject of the lecture , advertised by the ‘ Mechanicks Institute ’ , ‘ on a new designing machine capable of making 1000 changes with the same set of ornaments ’ . |
| 2 | These purposes are those most readily associated with the objectives of the positive state which emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century and which are summed up in the idea of government as institution which promotes progressive evolutionary change . |
| 3 | Pancks 's habit of puffing and snorting , and his bustling ways around his employer are summed up in the steam-tug and barge image that CD repeatedly uses to describe them . |
| 4 | It is not possible to establish , even in the broadest terms , educational needs for the present , or the immediate future , without taking into account the fundamental economic and social changes which are summed up in the phrase , ‘ a post-industrial society ’ . |
| 5 | His feelings about the latter are summed up in the phrase ‘ God does not play dice . ’ |
| 6 | These typical senses of the infinitive are summed up in the table below : The bare infinitive is therefore no less versatile than the to infinitive in being able to express a happening as real or only potential , which is not surprising given the fact that the to infinitive is composed of the preposition to + the bare infinitive . |
| 7 | The project of Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge can be summed up as the attempt to study the relation between knowledge and social structure . |
| 8 | Its constant , playful , inventive forging of a self-contained language can be summed up by the novel 's own phrase , ‘ say mangraphique , may say nay por daguerre ! ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Our success , ’ says Denis Galway , Director and General Manager , ‘ can be summed up in the ability to offer customers , old and new , the right facilities and service at the right price . ’ |
| 10 | Denis Galway , Director and General Manager of Larne Harbour Limited , explains : ‘ Our success can be summed up in the ability to offer customers , old and new , the right facilities and service at the right price . |
| 11 | The British contribution to the philosophy of free speech might be summed up in the Duke of Wellington 's phrase , " publish and be damned " . |
| 12 | Guild members are not content with the position in the cooperative world which may be summed up in the saying of the man ‘ My wife and I are one , and I am that one ’ . |
| 13 | But the COS had refused to acknowledge the role of economic forces with respect to character , justifying J. A. Hobson 's jibe that their philosophy could be summed up in the phrase ‘ character is the condition of conditions ’ . |
| 14 | This idea of historical study as the rigorous combination of knowledge and method is central to any defence of a key position for history in the curriculum of the 1990s , and may best be summed up in the term " historical literacy " . |
| 15 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 16 | Their findings were summed up in the feasibility study published in February 1986 , which predicted a minimum weekly sale of 800,000 and a maximum of 1.5 million . |
| 17 | He emphasized what is summed up in the title of Simone Weil 's book which Eliot would later preface , The Need for Roots . |
| 18 | Mr Eyre 's thesis is summed up in the title of a chapter called ‘ Acting Properly ’ . |
| 19 | But the purpose of all this is summed up in the phrase : ‘ that we … might be for the praise of is glory ’ ( v 12 ) . |
| 20 | The programme of black capitalism resurgent was summed up in the wall slogan , apropos attacking the Koreans ' stores : ‘ Day One , burn them out . |
| 21 | Sutcliffe adds ( p. 149 ) : The girls ' collective perception of usage at home was summed up in the comment " plien [ plain ] English — and sometimes Jamaican' … |
| 22 | The gist of it was summed up in the formula cuius regio , eius religio which meant that each king or prince had the right to choose the religion of his subjects . |
| 23 | This definition was summed up in the formula libertas ecclesiae , by which was understood the independence of the Church from all lay interference in ecclesiastical appointments , in the exercise of the Church 's spiritual functions , in the administration of its temporal rights and properties , and in the immunity of clerical persons from secular jurisdiction . |
| 24 | Philip Miller 's appreciation was summed up in the Abridgement of 1754 , where he considered roses to have |
| 25 | The modern concept was summed up by the Earl of Radnor , Chairman of the Forestry Commission , when he wrote in 1961 : |
| 26 | Aberdeen 's frustrating afternoon was summed up by the loss of Gary Smith before the match with ‘ flu and his replacement David Winnie with a stomach upset in the second half . |
| 27 | The struggle was summed up by the Bioscope , which pointed out that : |
| 28 | The man 's global standing was summed up by the fact that he had the whole of Cardiff Arms Park standing for an ovation that tingled your spine . |