Example sentences of "speak for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They embraced at the last , but did not speak for fear of the clarity with which even a whisper might carry here . |
| 2 | It is much more likely to succeed where the target 's board can speak for control of the company and the board supports the scheme . |
| 3 | What we choose to call this event depends upon factors such as its magnitude : we speak for instance of accidents , emergencies , disasters and catastrophes , each of which carries connotations concerning the scale of the event and each of which will have a set of human and/or environmental consequences . |
| 4 | Er Madam Speaker I entirely agree , I entirely agree with my ho honourable friend er the absence of the social chapter in Britain accounts in part for our higher levels of employment and the reforms which we carried out in the eighties and the figures speak for themselves , as do the er people who speak for industry for example when Black and Decker announced their intention to bring their operations er fully into Britain out of Germany , a company spokesman said anyone familiar with this sit situation in Germany will grasp that because of costs it is become very difficult to do business there . |
| 5 | And practically nothing has been done to establish effective machinery of joint conference between the representative organizations entitled to speak for industry as a whole . |
| 6 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 7 | Jane nodded , afraid to speak for fear of damming the flow . |
| 8 | We were numb ; we did n't want to speak for fear of returning to our banal selves again . |
| 9 | Brian Meek , for the Conservatives , said : ‘ I do n't know exactly that this organisation has any right to speak for democracy in Scotland , nor do I believe that it 's an all-party organisation … |
| 10 | For several seconds the two women sat staring at one another , unable to speak for thinking of that awful scene . |