Example sentences of "sums up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hills sums up the combined effect of the tax and benefit changes since 1979 : |
| 3 | IT IS an old joke , but it sums up the present mood in Australia . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The enclosed photo sums up the general verdict of our recent holiday to Zakopane . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | Somehow that incident sums up the Corinthian surroundings of British rowing — the sport that won Great Britain two Olympic gold medals last summer . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life . |
| 11 | Its position sums up the massive ego of a man who plundered millions from his empire 's pensioners . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |