Example sentences of "speak of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I speak of certain matters , ’ Sophie said . |
| 2 | The social workers speak a language of " task-centred social work " — a reference to a course of programmed activities with clients ; the nurses speak of behavioural change programmes — again , a reference to sustained work with clients , although not entirely identical to social work approaches . |
| 3 | She would shake her head and deftly speak of other matters , though never about her father 's past . |
| 4 | They describe our world , and speak of other worlds beyond . |
| 5 | But we must go further and when men speak of dark skies , we must think of our own bright interior skies . |
| 6 | Spontaneous as they always seem , these watercolours speak of long contemplation and of profound love and understanding of the Yorkshire fells . |
| 7 | When we speak of strong attachment or attraction between two people we are in the realms of love , the basis on which many people in our culture choose or are drawn towards their marriage partner . |
| 8 | Perhaps it is , perhaps it is not ; our ignorance shows that what we mean when we speak of personal identity is continuity of consciousness , not of substance . |
| 9 | Some reports quoting ‘ sources close to the Treasury ’ speak of swinging increases in tax liability on company cars over two litres . |
| 10 | Where written constitutions speak of positive rights the British tradition is to speak in negative terms . |
| 11 | Such libations were probably not the norm , however ; other records speak of ceremonial statues made of flour mixed with sacrificial blood , and battle prisoners were disembowelled on Huitzilopochtli 's temple steps to appease the god , when he was angered . |
| 12 | In the Yorkshire parish of Arksey , however , the vicar wrote in the register for 1729 : ‘ The greatest mortality that ever can be remembered , or made out to be ’ , and many other accounts speak of considerable distress . |
| 13 | … it is what we imply when we speak of Primitive Culture . |
| 14 | When people speak of conceptual clustering , they often mean more than just a clustering process . |
| 15 | I felt that the texts he was reading did not speak of familiar experiences or vocabulary . |
| 16 | For convenience throughout this paper , I shall speak of male-to-female transsexuals . |
| 17 | While recalling their moments upstairs , he could speak of scrambled eggs . |
| 18 | There may be rare instances where a situation can be covered by one meaning but not by the other ; a police investigation might conceivably report that " criminal activity " ( associative use ) " in the southern suburbs includes ostentatious donations to charity in order to cultivate an image of respectability " ; a lawyer might jocularly speak of criminal activity having sharply increased in his legal chambers ( though intuitive awareness of the ambiguity might just as well make him avoid the phrase ) ; in both these cases the associative interpretation , only , is required . |
| 19 | Then let us speak of other matters . |
| 20 | Nowhere does it speak of central control . |
| 21 | In contrast , if by grouping together animals can resist a predator altogether , as a herd of musk ox can drive off wolves , we can reasonably speak of mutual benefit . |
| 22 | Where there are definite intuitions about which elements belong at a given level , we may speak of substantive levels . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , Dorian , ’ he said at last , ‘ I wo n't speak of poor Sybil again . |
| 24 | It is in this sense that we can speak of Prussian hegemony : her economic strength , her size population and political weight inevitably resulted in putting a Prussian stamp on the new Germany . |
| 25 | One might as well speak of even-handed socialism . |
| 26 | They did not speak of permanent hostilities between sections or lineages , but they did speak of peaces between lineages . |
| 27 | I decided that neither one was a social system and that one could only speak of social change in social systems . |
| 28 | By 1279 one may speak of monastic foundations in England — nearly a thousand of them — as having reached saturation point . |
| 29 | " We can not speak of 'Ukrainian Decembrists ' , but … only of Decembrists in the Ukraine " . |
| 30 | Should one speak of biological science or sciences ? |