Example sentences of "talk [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ernst & Young fielded a former Inland Revenue Inspector of Taxes and a former VAT inspector — gamekeepers turned poacher as it were — to talk about the changes brought about by the Single Market to the regulations governing direct taxation and VAT . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , without interfering , an adult who is obviously interested in what they are doing can encourage them to talk about the choices they are making regarding size , shape and texture . |
| 3 | Only a few of her friends had been active in the Resistance , but it was clear that neither they nor anyone else much wanted to talk about the choices they had all had to make . |
| 4 | I were going to talk about the problems of an ex Premier League football manager today . |
| 5 | the social position of the fishermen and their families means that they are scared to speak out , scared to get together with other people to talk about the problems , and they think there is nothing they can do about it . |
| 6 | Thus the Tabula Rasa flourished in its peculiar , purposeless way , gathering to talk about the secrets it kept , as Roxborough had decreed , and enjoying the sight of the city from its place on Highgate Hill . |
| 7 | In other words if you , you 've been a teacher and you 're working in a school , you tend to talk about the things about your school that different from other schools , not about the things about your school that are the same , and that go on in all the other schools as well . |
| 8 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 9 | For example , if a person is being asked about her educational background one interviewer could encourage her to talk about the criticisms she could offer of it , while another interviewer could concentrate on the benefits she received from it . |
| 10 | David Fullerton , of the Sierra Club , an environmental lobby group , says : ‘ They want to use new technology or more water while we want them to talk about the crops they 're growing . ’ |
| 11 | And it seems to us I mean we 've talked about the different principles , the ne sensible next step is to talk about the criteria . |
| 12 | We went on to talk about the articles in Time and Tide that had so provoked Rebecca West , and Father D'Arcy observed how , in dealing with ‘ difficult ’ correspondents , it was important to strike the right note in replying . |
| 13 | A naturally shy man , who does n't boast about his achievements , and had never previously agreed to any magazine interview , Zarei will not say who the winning runner was , and is reluctant to talk about the times he has put sportsmanship before victory , unless his motives are misinterpreted . |
| 14 | Piggy was the first of the two boys to talk about the others on the island . |
| 15 | Encouraging school governors to sample a school meal with the children and inviting the contractor to send a representative to talk about the meals service at the next governors ' meeting will also lead to positive action to improve the system . |
| 16 | We use language to talk about the meanings of linguistic expressions as well as about things that are not meanings . |
| 17 | The Health chairman was unmoved ( leading Awlad Amira to remark later that everything had already been decided , there was no true democracy ) and was about to raise another aspect of the question when a speaker at the public microphone began to talk about the roads , mentioning the present high cost of transport across the Sahara . |
| 18 | … sent doctors to the factory to talk about the dangers of uranium ? |
| 19 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 20 | Even under China 's ‘ open door ’ policy a few years ago , young Chinese people were still reluctant to talk about the traumas of the Cultural Revolution . |
| 21 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 22 | I mean the question that has to be faced is that when you talk about cutting the costs in local government you also have to talk about the services which councils deliver , and you ca n't get something for nothing . |
| 23 | I think it maybe has to be said that we we picked these figures , not because we wanted to talk about the figures , but simply to use them as for you to hang on to . |
| 24 | So what we 've got to do is try and filter out that so that the incidents go straight through to the incident rooms , rather than being queued behind everybody who just wants to speak to the caretaker , to talk about the hinges that 's just normally . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's difficult for us to understand why everybody wants to talk about the Russians all the time , ’ says ballerina Fiona Chadwick . |
| 26 | I thought : why do women always have to talk about the men they are interested in ? |
| 27 | ‘ I feel we should try to talk about the happenings of the last few days . |
| 28 | ‘ The idea is to bring these management information systems directors together and have them discuss how they judge the profitability of a new computing architecture and to talk about the results they may have had from rightsizing changes , ’ Saillard says . |
| 29 | ( Saint Teresa goes on to talk about the ill-effects of reading for amusement — specifically reading books of chivalry — but that does not invalidate this demonstration of the role of reading and play in childhood . ) |
| 30 | What particularly distressed Gregory was the failure of Sulpicius Alexander , Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus and Orosius to talk about the kings of the Franks . |