Example sentences of "[adv] sum up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having declared the new music to be — incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics ' , Nietzsche at once went on to sum up the task he saw before him : " the thing above all is to get beyond Lessing 's Laocoon " . |
| 2 | Just a very brief comment , perhaps summing up the and commenting on the various contributions that we 've heard so far . |
| 3 | David Downes ( 1983 ) aptly summed up the irony of ‘ law and order ’ being seen as a Conservative concern , when he called it ‘ theft of an issue ’ . |
| 4 | Fairbairn ) aptly summed up the Labour party 's position . |
| 5 | A young Italian nobleman had already summed up the dismay felt by liberal Catholics in 1906 when he wrote , in a famous letter , ‘ Since the death of Pope Leo the Roman Curia has assumed towards the world of thought a reactionary attitude reminiscent of the days of Pius IX , when the Church was at war with everything and everybody . ’ |
| 6 | A more equivocal comment that perhaps best sums up the evaluations that led to RCA has been made by Timmons ( 1980 ) : ‘ While these measures [ in soil conservation ] have seldom attained goals , increases in soil erosion were minimised and occasionally soil losses reduced . |
| 7 | But perhaps this best sums up the case for the prosecution . |
| 8 | This statement exactly sums up the quality and feeling of Franck 's music . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Christopher Martin-Jenkins succinctly summed up the situation when commenting that in less than a year England had been outplayed by the entire subcontinent . |
| 11 | When the multi-storey hotel in which she was staying burst into flames trapping people on the upper floors , " Alligator " quickly summed up the situation . |
| 12 | It can be argued the flames have been fanned in part by attitude displayed by Milne 's hooking rival , Brian Moore , who once summed up the England approach by saying : ‘ Nobody likes us and we do n't care . ’ |
| 13 | Everett True , writing in Melody Maker , probably summed up the general reaction to the shows when he wrote : ‘ It 's rock . |
| 14 | It probably sums up the case and we can discuss it and perhaps add to it at that time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Three charges are probably enough for seeing the general trend so we shall now sum up the two partial energies |
| 17 | That would just about sum up the general South African reaction to the record 26–3 defeat by Australia . |
| 18 | The sociologist Bernice Martin has perceptively summed up the situation in terms of recent English culture when she says that : |
| 19 | Some of your comments really sum up the TECHNIQUEST experience : |
| 20 | This this slide really sums up the mission or the goal of , which is the integration of yo all your information resource . |
| 21 | In this passage , which is very near the end of the book , he ironically sums up the manner in which the hypocritical bureaucrats of Whitehall and Washington dealt with their own inadequacies when their major spying operation went wrong . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's different from England but they 'll soon get used to it ’ often sums up the attitudes of those who play a part in posting staff overseas but who have not lived abroad themselves . |
| 23 | That just about sums up the book , but the Vietnam/Cambodia industry goes on . |
| 24 | This accurately sums up the marketing policy and illustrates what is being achieved by the creation of the new point-of-sale material . |
| 25 | Those chilling words — official indifference and lack of care — may well sum up the experience of refugees in many countries , not just our own . |
| 26 | As Coleman subsequently reported to Control , this pretty well summed up the relationship between Hurley and the spooks in Nicosia . |
| 27 | It is a remark that effectively sums up the difference between himself and the rest of the band . |
| 28 | One teacher indeed summed up the book as portraying religion as a fairy story and a religious festival as like a birthday party . |
| 29 | Weeell , to our knowledge , no-one else quite sums up the paper over the past ten or so years — rarely has a pop personage and his relationship with a music paper produced so many sparks , so much debate , so much excellent copy , and ( ahem ) so many yards of Angst . |
| 30 | He then summed up the situation in brusque style for the policeman at the other end . |