Example sentences of "[noun] sum up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 2 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 3 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 4 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 5 | She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story . |
| 6 | Chekov 's melodramatic last words sum up the film quite neatly : ‘ Well I guess this is goodbye ! ’ |
| 7 | Alcohol-soaked cherries sum up the bouquet of this unusual Dornfelder . |
| 8 | Therefore , these two speeches sum up the difference between Brutus and Cassius : Brutus works unselfishly and nobly for the good of the people of Rome , disregarding personal cost ( for it did cost Brutus a lot to kill Caesar ) , while Cassius is jealous of Caesar 's great power and begins the conspiracy with hopes of gaining more prestige and power for himself . |
| 9 | Vivian de Sola Pinto sums up the qualities required of this kind of professional scholar as a capacity for " exact scholarship " , an extensive " knowledge " of language and literature , and — if possible — " the most perfect taste and tact " . |
| 10 | Hill sums up the 1992 housing market in one word — ‘ weird ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 13 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 14 | Chanel sums up the new colour and shape of accessories . |
| 15 | The Midlands leader of the pit deputies union NACODS was first to emerge from the review meeting at Edwinstowe Ray Hilton summed up the mood of the mining unions . |
| 16 | An anonymous Anglican critic summed up the vitality and confidence of the ministry by the end of the century . |
| 17 | At the question session afterwards , one disgruntled UFO watcher summed up the audience 's feelings : ‘ If you want to talk about psychology , why do n't you bugger off to a psychology conference . |
| 18 | One study summed up the overall situation as follows : |
| 19 | At a recent Royal Institute of British Architects ' conference , author Simon Inglis summed up the mood of many anti-relocation fans , unswayed by the clubs ' need for cash . |
| 20 | There is a little poem by Ogden Nash from which a couple of ( long ) lines sum up the danger excellently . |
| 21 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |
| 22 | With this paragraph in the preface to Newsletter Writing and Production Handbook for the Spirited Journalist , editor Alfonso B Deza sums up the philosophy of the handbook . |
| 23 | British Mogul Champion Neil Munro sums up the problem . |
| 24 | For example , Chafe sums up the expression of givenness as follows : |
| 25 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | One ambulanceman summed up the mood as he threw his hands up in disgust and muttered : ‘ Absolute rubbish . |
| 28 | Eritrean media expert Hanna Simon summed up the feelings of the group : ‘ We believe the media still can and should be a means of national mobilisation for the tasks of reconstruction , but it also has to be a forum for national debate and the free airing of different views , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Eritrean media expert Hanna Simon summed up the feelings of the group : ‘ We believe the media still can and should be a means of national mobilisation for the tasks of reconstruction , but it also has to be a forum for national debate and the free airing of different views , ’ she said . |
| 30 | 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 . |