Example sentences of "speak in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In what follows , I shall almost always speak in the ordinary way of causes and conditions as things in a generic sense , events , facts , ordinary things , and stuff . |
| 2 | Instead Sumner went with various other senators , representatives and the President , Johnson , to hear Hall speak in the largest Presbyterian Church in Washington . |
| 3 | The Aborigines who were with me , and of whom I must speak in the highest praise , for the readiness with which they rendered me their assistance , affirmed , upon learning the nature of my pursuits , that they had come to meet me . ’ |
| 4 | That meant in practise , I speak in the primary sector I think there 's five hundred and forty six thousand of the delegated budget taken out , and I will have to — if you will allow me a minute |
| 5 | Later decades have seen other organizations use the term so that we speak in the twentieth century about the trade union ‘ movement ’ or the ‘ peace movement ’ ; we seldom think to describe the Conservative Party , the Confederation of British Industry or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as ‘ movements ’ . |
| 6 | Careful descriptions of speech are necessary because people 's beliefs about their actual linguistic behaviour are often very inaccurate ; many people think they speak in the same way as they write but , in fact , no one does . |
| 7 | It seems , therefore , that focused patterns in real speech communities are not patterns in which all groups speak in the same way , but patterns of relatively stable differentiation within the community . |
| 8 | Riva would not hear them , were it not for the fact they speak in the same language , use the same gestures , and wear the same scars or armbands as her saints . |
| 9 | They are young people from each area who speak in the local language about important development issues , facilitate discussions and encourage villagers to come to their own conclusions through a series of interactive exercises . |
| 10 | In the second-person sequences , he is addressed by the voice of his subconscious which , speaking in the future tense , takes him back to relive the moments of truth when he made the choices which were to determine what he later became . |
| 11 | The Curators , with no other concerns in the matter , were truly speaking in the best interests of the children . |
| 12 | But , as David Beattie , Grampian 's assistant chief constable was speaking in the primary school at New Deer , Aberdeenshire , thieves were proceeding in a westerly direction towards the locus of Newlands Garage , just 300 yards away . |
| 13 | The Archbishop of Canterbury , Robert Runcie , speaking in the General Synod debate in November 1989 , gave his view that the ordination of women is a legitimate change of this kind : |
| 14 | Nicholas Bennett , speaking in the final Commons debate in March , said : |
| 15 | A teacher is reported as speaking in the following way : ‘ Two huge girls were fighting . |
| 16 | However , Foreign Relations Minister Isidoro Malmierca Peoli , speaking in the Spanish capital Madrid on Dec. 28 , stated that an agreement had been reached with the Russian Federation " during the last few days " on the exchange of sugar for oil . |
| 17 | The cantata ends with Dido still speaking in the first person . |
| 18 | Must have a good understanding of the ethnography of speaking in the bilingual context , particularly that of interpreted interviews . |
| 19 | In July 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev , speaking in the great Pacific port of Vladivostok — the name means ‘ Rule the East ’ — made what turned out to be a seminal address displaying the Soviets ' keen interest in the region . |
| 20 | Speaking in the local Bemba dialect , Texas tells the story of Zambia 's worst civil unrest in post-independence history — the 1986 food riots which arose from the burning desire of Zambia 's poorest people to survive . |
| 21 | Argentinian President Carlos Saúl Menem , speaking in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires , stated that he believed that the agreement " eliminated for good the possibility of armed conflict " between the UK and Argentina and would grant Argentina " broad possibilities " in the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 22 | Speaking in the medical magazine Pulse , Mr Butland says : ‘ I have said to the region that if I feel we are unable to support fundholding we do not believe the number should be increased . ’ |
| 23 | Reports at the turn of the year 1942–3 referring in the usual glowing terms of undiminished confidence of the people in ‘ its beloved Führer ’ and claiming that ‘ the person of the Führer was as always put beyond criticism ’ had been speaking in the conventional exaggerations of the regime 's apparatchiks . |
| 24 | John Pym , speaking in the Short Parliament on 17 April 1640 , enumerated the grievances of the king 's subjects . |
| 25 | Sheriff Robin McEwan , QC , was speaking in the closing stages of a three-day fatal accident inquiry at Ayr Sheriff Court . |
| 26 | At any rate it should not surprise us that when Virgil most startlingly irrupts into Pound 's Cantos ( rather late — it is in Canto 78 ) , he should be heard speaking in the Caledonian accents of Gavin Douglas . |
| 27 | Various other places too , so they get a good idea of the English language as it 's spoken in the nineteen nineties . |
| 28 | The case and conversation details will all be completely anonymous , so no one will know who has used the words or whose voice it is on the tape , but together they will provide a permanent record of how the English language was spoken in the nineteen nineties . |
| 29 | The tapes and conversation details will all become completely anonymous no one will know who 's used the words or whose voice are on the tapes together they will provide a permanent record of how the English language is spoken in the nineteen nineties we 'll go down in posterity , eh ? |
| 30 | how they want to see how the English word is spoken in the nineteen nineties . |