Example sentences of "[adv] speak [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So speaks the perfunctory lawyer in Bleak House ( Ch 1 ) . |
| 2 | Nevertheless in London the abortive strike was accompanied by great bitterness , much of it directed at Wilson who had been bold enough to speak the unpalatable truth in difficult circumstances . |
| 3 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 4 | This hostility at best would be similar to blaming someone because he or she does not speak a foreign language . |
| 5 | Not only is there a division among the English , the Scottish , and the Welsh ; there is also a division between Gaelic-speaking Scots and those who do not speak Gaelic , and between those who do and do not speak the Welsh language in Wales . |
| 6 | " Officers had instructions from their employers that no English need apply and that the best chance a man could have to get employment would be that he could not speak the English language ; then he was sure to get a situation " . |
| 7 | The new patient who probably has the biggest problem with communication is the one who does not speak the national language ( Watson , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | We do not speak the same language . ’ |
| 9 | If the captives could not speak the same language , reasoned the slavers , they were unlikely to organize effective opposition . |
| 10 | Generally speaking the offshore profile is much more gentle , so that a fall in sea level of 30 m ( 100 ft ) , for example , will cause a displacement seaward of the shoreline to the extent of anything between a few hundred metres and perhaps 20 km ( 12 miles ) . |
| 11 | Women are most heavily concentrated in the sales and service sectors , accounting for some 60% to 70% of the work-force , generally speaking the worst paid areas of work . |
| 12 | The rationale of this is that broadly speaking the net income was spent as to one-third for the benefit of each and as to one-third for their joint benefit . |
| 13 | Broadly speaking the feeding habits of insects are of three main kinds . |
| 14 | This largely stems from the current government 's reluctance to intervene in the workings of the market because , intervention by public authorities in lawful commercial transactions should be kept to a minimum , since broadly speaking the free commercial decisions of private decision-makers result in the most desirable outcomes for the economy as a whole . |
| 15 | Since those early days there have been many sea chases with much bigger things at stake , but broadly speaking the same rules apply , although it is sometimes difficult to be dispassionate where hard drugs are concerned . |
| 16 | There was evidentially speaking a head-on collision between the appellant and the principal prosecution witness . |
| 17 | His father had not spoken a single word to him , just followed him around the house , not a solitary word . |
| 18 | Thus spoke a euphoric , besotted Morrissey . |
| 19 | There is a further division when one includes Northern Ireland , where the community is divided along mutually exclusive lines ( see Chapter 9 ) : a few families in the province still speak the Irish form of Gaelic . |
| 20 | He displays a wide range of diplomatic skills such as always speaking the other person 's language , being acutely sensitive to customer needs and creatively expressing genuine appreciation for a job well done . |
| 21 | Or deem 'd an Idiot , ever speaks the Wrong : |
| 22 | ( Dundee ) and Doncaster Rovers F.C. , both in 1879 , although this was not strictly speaking an adult deaf sports club . |
| 23 | Strictly speaking the former ought to Read MEDIA RELEASE — important , perhaps , if you send a good deal of material to TV and radio . |
| 24 | In the event of a claim in respect of an unspecified valuable exceeding the single article limit , where the cause of the loss/damage would be covered under Part B of 2*/3* Contents policies e.g. theft from the home , strictly speaking the maximum payable would be the single article limit . |
| 25 | Strictly speaking the extreme ultraviolet light does not come from a laser , but it does retain the coherence of the original . |
| 26 | Then her innate honesty forced her to realise he was probably speaking no more than the truth , and she gave a single reluctant nod . |
| 27 | You end up speaking the same jargon or formulae as the establishment without stopping to think . |
| 28 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 29 | The Belorussians ( about 10 million in the late 1980s ) also spoke a distinctive East Slavic language and were predominantly Russian Orthodox by religion . |
| 30 | North also spoke the religious language of evangelicals . |