Example sentences of "[prep] talking about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 2 | New ways of thought , concentrated but largely ineffectual attempts to persuade the British that they are ‘ European ’ , a fear of talking about the English ‘ race ’ and its diaspora round the world and the virtual disappearance of the word ‘ Protestant ’ as an adjective to describe anyone other than Ulster fanatics , has meant that a once powerful cultural and historic bond is little understood in the late twentieth century . |
| 3 | As with some of the more recent reactions to our report , the simple fact of talking about the relationships between Shetlanders and incomers or , worse , writing about it , was seen as disruptive in itself . |
| 4 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 5 | Gustave had a way of talking about the women he had enjoyed . |
| 6 | I know Meredith Putt 's been doing a lot of talking about the railway , but I did n't know it was on its way . ’ |
| 7 | He would n't dream of talking about the war . |
| 8 | But these expressions are often only convenient figures of speech , shorthand ways of talking about the average or representative members of a community . |
| 9 | MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load ! |
| 10 | In the book Deighton quite openly accused David Stirling of having ‘ insisted upon talking about the raid during two social gatherings at the British Embassy in Cairo … ’ |
| 11 | In talking about the image of Mitch as a hunk , the girls construct a female gaze which mocks as it dissects . |
| 12 | Of course , matters are not helped by the fact that many men have difficulty in talking about the problem at all , often finding it both distressing and embarrassing . |
| 13 | No one thought there were many votes to be gained in talking about the UN or Nato . |
| 14 | It was as if he had blocked out that part of his life and was only interested in talking about the future . |
| 15 | The man or woman who is used to referring to the female sexual organ as a cunt will not be comfortable or confident in talking about the vulva or the vagina . |
| 16 | But Andebraham Giorgis , who heads up the educational division of the EPLF , is as interested in talking about the achievements and challenges of education as about the difficulties resulting from the war . |
| 17 | The hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) persisted in talking about the new harsher penalties that would be available under the Bill . |
| 18 | Now you might say , er , that , that , that 's very paradoxical , why should Darwin have been prepared to consider Lamarckism , even evolution by will Lamarckism in psychology , when he , when he would n't accept it , for instance , in talking about the , the lengthening of the necks of giraffes . |
| 19 | Before talking about the types of window you can choose , let's look briefly at the question of double glazing . |
| 20 | A stoic quality keeps him from talking about the problem , which is silly ; even Nicklaus discusses his back , made ancient by millions of swings and uneven leg lengths . |
| 21 | Inhibited by the presence of the police , by prudence , delicacy or embarrassment from talking about the subject foremost in their minds , they spoke to each other with the wary politeness of uncongenial strangers stranded in an airport lounge . |
| 22 | Students today were barred from talking about the decision … because ofn embargo placed on the announcement . |
| 23 | There were so few homes where she could relax and , without talking about the hidden things , not be consciously hiding them . |
| 24 | There is clearly something special about the apparatus of government when it comes to talking about the power which it has over our daily lives through its ability to take decisions which shape and lead society in a certain direction . |
| 25 | But before we move from discussing the lower levels of language — words , phrases , grammatical categories — to talking about the text as a unit of meaning , it would perhaps be useful to explain briefly what a text is and why we identify a given stretch of language as a text rather than assume that it is a set of unrelated words and sentences . |
| 26 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 27 | All right yeah well let's erm le let's stick to talking about the leaf stem for now cos we do n't want to go on er slagging off every bit of art that 's around the city centre do we Barbara otherwise |
| 28 | Missed out sort of tentative benefits erm and went straight into , to talking about the , the C C Q. Er now wait a minute , where are we ? |
| 29 | Each unit has a ‘ Let's Talk ’ section with model conversations for talking about the games and puzzles , and a ‘ Let's Write ’ section with written exercises . |
| 30 | The language for talking about the undergraduate curriculum already exists ; it is a matter of using it . |