Example sentences of "talk of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when the problems of war and , later , unemployment were national priorities , it would be fallacious to talk of the existence of a ‘ poverty lobby ’ , operating on a broad front and according equal status to all disadvantaged groups . |
| 2 | Mr Palios said : ‘ It 's more appropriate to talk of the company having badwill than goodwill . ’ |
| 3 | It was considered even less seemly to talk of the art market and collecting , but Bonito Oliva refused to bow to such conventions and , in 1974 wrote an essay entitled ‘ Mercato come opera d'arte ’ ( The market as a work of art ) , giving historical instances of how the market had often anticipated the choices of museums and art critics . |
| 4 | ( It turns out that there may be a number of lexicons used by the skilled reader — for input and output processing , and for input of words by sight or sound — but for our purposes it is sufficient to talk of the lexicon as the store of word meanings . |
| 5 | Legends of these terrible sea routes reached the Old World and caused men to talk of the Elf-realm with dread . |
| 6 | To talk of the rights of the nation was one thing , to descend to the streets and appeal to the mob was unthinkable to magistrates whose obsessive concern was the preservation of order . |
| 7 | Our response to talk of the birth of a daughter is that a daughter was born , provided of course that the talk and the child are separated ( that same device ) by a long period of time and a reasonable number of pages . |
| 8 | Perhaps the main reason why we are so strongly inclined to talk of the head as the locality of our thoughts is this … |
| 9 | To talk of the movies then was to talk of the masses . |
| 10 | To talk of the presentation appearance , on the other hand , is to talk of something that can , itself , properly be said to be large , round , blue , and so on . |
| 11 | Although in this last case we should note that it is much harder to talk of the sentence being ‘ wrong ’ ; there are circumstances when people validly violate semantic norms , as we shall see . |
| 12 | In truth , it is not quite correct to refer to talk of the Institute 's ‘ deafening silence ’ on this matter , as , in its evidence to the Cadbury Committee , the Institute 's Financial Reporting and Auditing Group was actually supportive of the Caparo position ! |
| 13 | You 're right to talk of the past . |
| 14 | With no less force than on the dog 's behalf might the third-party claim that the law should intervene to see the job is done , but there would be no inclination to talk of the right of the grave to be maintained . |
| 15 | In the same way we are not able to talk of the volume of agricultural yields and the excess per capita from the farms . |
| 16 | But successive generations of women artists have searched for a specifically non-representational ( or abstract ) way to talk of the body . |
| 17 | Under such pressure the hacker broke down and confessed : ‘ … he began to talk of the pleasure he got out of playing the weirdest experimental games with the computer … |
| 18 | It is not sufficient merely to talk of the articulation of two independent spheres ( Bourdieu 1984 : 230 ) . |
| 19 | It would be unkind to talk of the pollsters making excuses , but they do have explanations . |
| 20 | As she showed him the barn , they began to talk of the forest . |
| 21 | To talk of the movies then was to talk of the masses . |
| 22 | This is not the time to talk of the end of history — more a time for some good history lessons . |
| 23 | They are simply those rights which underpin the conditions under which it is meaningful to talk of the student 's right to learn . |
| 24 | As Danny Gardiner was led to the Security van , he paused to talk of the outcome : |
| 25 | Erich Honecker , the country 's 77-year-old leader , continued only to talk of the need for ‘ the further development of socialism ’ , in his speech in the Palace of the Republic . |
| 26 | One of America 's first reactions was to talk of the need the Gulf states would have for ‘ additional security ’ . |
| 27 | To talk of the weather was a morbid sign . |
| 28 | The grand total of fifteen million pounds fell 7 million short of Telethon'90 , ratings were down and critics talked of the recession and compassion fatigue . |
| 29 | people had hitherto talked of the aftermath of nuclear bombing as ‘ catastrophic ’ ; he introduced the concept of ‘ acceptable damage ’ . |
| 30 | He blamed his parents for being over-ambitious on his behalf ; a claim denied , said the prosecution , by his sister , who would have talked of the love and support of their parents . |