Example sentences of "[vb mod] speak [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are a hospital patient , or are going into hospital , you should speak to a member of the nursing staff , about the arrangements for you going home . |
| 2 | It should speak to the condition of the worshipper . |
| 3 | Or perhaps Miss Hopper should speak to the women who 've been raped by some of the men in here . |
| 4 | He speculated whether he should speak to the friar , open his heart , tell him his secrets , get rid of the sea of misery he felt bathing his body , drowning his mind . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton , South-West ( Mr. Budgen ) reminded us more than once that we should speak to the motion . |
| 6 | He wondered if he should speak to the other man but , not knowing the system 's etiquette , he stayed silent . |
| 7 | It follows from this that the test of legitimate episcopal authority is that the bishop should speak with the voice of Christ . |
| 8 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 9 | Amiss wondered vaguely why ffeatherstonehaugh 's head waiter should speak like a prep-school master of the 1950s . |
| 10 | And at the end of the village there lived an old woman who was very very wise and said if you want to live for ever then you must speak to the person who 's the oldest person I know . |
| 11 | I think it w it can get a little bit over elaborated and I think that may be well fear of the C C Q or fear of the buyer 's guide but it , it should n't cause any problems in the real world and I think the more you do then you 'll realize that er they 're not gon na say oh my goodness me stop , leave now , I must speak to an independent financial adviser . |
| 12 | We must speak for the majority that opposed the return of John Major 's government . |
| 13 | As John Weaver said ( 1708 ) : ‘ The face is the mirror of the soul ’ , and in dance ‘ must speak through the eyes ’ . |
| 14 | The Aborigines who were with me , and of whom I must speak in the highest praise , for the readiness with which they rendered me their assistance , affirmed , upon learning the nature of my pursuits , that they had come to meet me . ’ |
| 15 | He must speak from the heart . |
| 16 | If I may speak for the Law Officers of the Crown , we are scrupulous in bearing that vital principle in mind . |
| 17 | You may speak to a woman volunteer if you wish . |
| 18 | ‘ You may speak to the matter . |
| 19 | In this sense we may speak of a ‘ conflict or variance ’ between the rules of Law and the rules of Equity , in the language of section 25 ( sub-section 11 ) of the judicature Act 1873 ( now replaced by section 49 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ) . |
| 20 | Where a strong subject-employment relationship does exist and influences course planning , we may speak of a ‘ professional ’ course . |
| 21 | This sense of heavy requires fairly narrowly defined contextual conditions : one may speak of a heavy smoker , or a heavy drug-user , a car may be heavy on petrol , etc . |
| 22 | Indeed we may speak of a ‘ new culture ’ created by modern communications , which affects everyone , particularly the younger generation , and is itself largely the result of technological advances which have created ‘ new ways of communicating , with new languages , new techniques and a new psychology ’ ( cf. |
| 23 | Nonetheless there is a tendency within the academic establishment to regard the exposition of the black-letter law and the exhaustive analyses of concepts as the totality of the concerns of the academic criminal lawyer ; indeed one may speak of an attempt , conscious or otherwise , to distort the data to fit the expositor 's ideal . |
| 24 | In other words Psalm 104:30 may speak of the energising rather than the creative work of the Spirit , and thus fall into line with the rest of the Old Testament teaching on ruach as ‘ breath ’ . |
| 25 | Arriving at the podium to a standing ovation , Jesse asked for the house lights to be raised — ‘ so that I may speak unto the people ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ If I may speak in a spirit of complaint , David , I might point out that it 's easy for you to talk and even easier to talk tough . |
| 27 | I 'll speak to the owners first but there is a possibility I might end up withdrawing Cab on Target . ’ |
| 28 | I 'll speak to the boy myself , then . ’ |
| 29 | I 'll speak to the Queen . |
| 30 | There 's very few who 'll speak about the Curtain I think now cos they speak about the hotel , but we say the Curtain of Glen Ayloch And then and then further down was Dyke Ends and that was our lower end of the glen , so that was there . |