Example sentences of "speak [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order not to dull your pleasure I intend to only speak for a few minutes in case we all get snowed in/melt away in the heat ! |
| 2 | There 's nothing more soul- destroying ( and I speak as a seasoned dieter here ! ) than those inflexible diet regimes : no meals out , no dinner parties , no treats . |
| 3 | Ironic , then , is Wilekin 's immediate comment : ( " Indeed , lady , you speak as a gracious person " ) |
| 4 | ‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time . |
| 5 | Does their theology then really speak about a real God , or merely about man himself ? |
| 6 | The resuscitated patients often speak of a great sense of disappointment and loss on waking . |
| 7 | When we speak of a delinquent subculture , we speak of a way of life that has somehow become traditional among certain groups in American society . |
| 8 | Luke 's Gospel and Acts both speak of a certain ‘ Judas of James ’ , which is usually translated as ‘ Judas , son of James ’ . |
| 9 | The mystics speak of a rare wine pressed in a high valley of the Pamirs of the mind whose property is not to charm the palate but the soul ; a wine that , like the opium of De Quincey , can overturn the sentences of unjust judges . |
| 10 | Others speak of a Spanish grandee who offered up the corpse of his lovely young wife in this way , hoping in his grief that her elements might be dispersed about the air . |
| 11 | A few writers still speak of a permanent discontinuity between the biological sciences and the social sciences , grounded in epistemology ( Eccles , 1980 ) or at least forced by a fundamental difference in goals ( Hampshire , 1978 ) . |
| 12 | In many cases we speak of a given condition as cause and it is the one action or piece of behaviour involved , something to which responsibility attaches . |
| 13 | It is even arguable that we should just speak of a clannish ‘ Heraklid aristocracy ’ and not subdivide further . |
| 14 | One might almost speak of a complex symbiosis of different elements in society . |
| 15 | Did he speak of a recent row or of serious friction with anyone ? ’ |
| 16 | However , it is not until the Bolshevik Party , the first communist party to seize state power , ushers in the birth of the Soviet Union that we can realistically speak of a communist bloc . |
| 17 | Finally , it seems most plausible to suppose that this enforcement operated within very strict limits , so that we should not speak of a general power of enforcement of modus for public purposes . |
| 18 | Compulsory labour services in many Latin-American countries were not abolished , and indeed intensified , so that we can hardly speak of a general liquidation of serfdom there . |
| 19 | If one can speak of a vocal Achilles heel , then Miss Roocroft 's is still her cloudy diction . |
| 20 | Proceeding by trial and error ; thus one might speak of a heuristic approach to teaching grammar . |
| 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 | Amiss wondered vaguely why ffeatherstonehaugh 's head waiter should speak like a prep-school master of the 1950s . |
| 23 | It would be odd if they did , since feminists , like philosophers , do not speak with a single voice . |
| 24 | And later the dove will speak with a human voice because of course the woman will stop twittering and learn to talk intelligibly . |
| 25 | She had heard rhyming slang , she knew what four by twos meant , and she 'd once been asked if she could speak with a Jewish accent . |
| 26 | Can you speak with a Jewish accent ? |
| 27 | Unburden yourself , tell me all that has passed — and later we will speak with a clear mind of matters close to our hearts . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You speak with a strange accent I have not heard before . |
| 29 | The SDLP need not now worry about Sinn Féin breathing on its neck , and Ulster Unionist sources now speak with a little disdain of Mr Paisley 's ranting style . |
| 30 | speak with a broader regional accent and use more non-standard grammatical forms ; |