Example sentences of "[noun] sum up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A meeting at the end of the Summer term provides an opportunity to sum up progress over the year and to talk parents through school reports particularly in terms of National Curriculum attainment levels and programmes of study . |
| 2 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 3 | Whitty sums up Hine 's argument thus : |
| 4 | A happy holiday course in a sublime setting sums up Ufford Park nicely . |
| 5 | ONE stark statistic sums up Ireland 's poor performance in the Inter-Continental Cup programme in Poland , one which threatens to shatter their dream of joining the elite at next year 's World Cup finals in Sydney . |
| 6 | This latter point sums up Scotland 's current midfield frailties : Is there not an attacking three-quarter in the land who can break the advantage line ? |
| 7 | That 's how one Irish farm leader sums up commissioner Ray MacSharry , the former minister for agriculture , whose radical reform plan for the CAP has set alarm bells ringing in his native country . |
| 8 | This piece of writing sums up Owen 's feelings of war and his poems , we see , are somewhat warnings of things to come . |
| 9 | Nixon summed up public opinion : ‘ Air is our most vital resource , and its pollution is our most serious environmental problem . |
| 10 | A company spokesman sums up BT 's intentions graphically : ‘ There are too many people at BT . |
| 11 | Pacem in Terris summed up Pope John 's magisterium , and gave the age-old term a new meaning . |
| 12 | In May 1951 the American ambassador in London summed up Britain 's situation : |
| 13 | ‘ ALTOGETHER too many damned sheep , ’ was how George Bernard Shaw summed up New Zealand . |