Example sentences of "can talk [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its broadest sense , we can talk of the ‘ sacramentality ’ of life , in that God may be seen , experienced and discovered in the normality of life . |
| 2 | Thus we can talk of the ( unique ) empty set . |
| 3 | The sense in which we can talk of the meaning of an individual sentence is not determinate enough to make it possible that a sentence be unrevisably true in virtue of that meaning . |
| 4 | It is in this sense of ‘ cognitive perspective ’ ( as Peters puts it ) that we can talk of the transcendence which comes through the life of reason , without resort to the metaphysical world picture of heavenly spheres of intellectual existence . |
| 5 | He can talk about the Atonement . |
| 6 | The teacher can talk about the way the child is responding to the new setting and listen to any concerns or worries that the parents might have . |
| 7 | It also helps when the time comes to break off the affair , because you can talk about the money instead of feelings and love and messy , painful stuff like that . |
| 8 | And , as one cynic pointed out , ‘ If you 're running out of conversation , at least you can talk about the decor ’ ! |
| 9 | But I fail to see how we can talk about the ‘ redeeming of structures ’ without an effective Christian presence . |
| 10 | ‘ At least if there 's a human being there you can talk about the deal , ’ says Legal & General 's Michael Payne with just a trace of exasperation . |
| 11 | It can either be looking at the animal as an observer , in which case you can talk about the animals and what they are doing . |
| 12 | The natural way to do this is as an N-dimensional rectangular array ; but all that matters is that there is some metric D on the set of nodes , so that we can talk about the distance |
| 13 | Hence if , say , you are watching a flock of starlings pecking for worms on a lawn , you can talk about the centre of the flock . |
| 14 | You can talk about the holes in the AOL there ! ’ |
| 15 | Like most people I can talk about the state of the world , sex and football in one conversation in the pub . |
| 16 | You can talk about the nature of art — blah , blah , blah — and I did do some dribbling off into text and stuff , but now I know that movement says more to me than any of this other tosh . |
| 17 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 18 | So while you can talk about the expansion of federal powers and the dominance of the national government in certain areas , it is but nothing compared to the dominance of central government in Britain over , over local government . |
| 19 | I mean they do n't honestly care two hoots about people , if they can talk about the dreadful state the , the care of old people is in and all the rest of it and that it 's going to get worse , frightening old people . |
| 20 | It 's more at the medium-term level that you can talk about the system making sensible adjustments to new circumstances , and indeed , many schools and many Local Education Authorities have simply had to do that , they 've had to erm adjust to much smaller numbers of pupils , correspondingly smaller numbers of teachers , and a much more static situation generally . |
| 21 | Of course we can talk about the standard of controversy in the seventeenth century and habits of erm arguing ad hominem more than , I suppose , would normally be acceptable today . |
| 22 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
| 23 | Reporting on that match , Charlie Rawlings , and I believe we can talk with the Bicester Town boss , Alan Thorn , good evening Alan . |
| 24 | We can go to West Oxfordshire now because Witney Town beat Bury Town by five goals to one in a Beezer Homes League match over at Marriotts Close , and we can talk with the Witney boss , Malcolm Mackintosh , good evening Malcolm . |
| 25 | ‘ We can talk through the door , ’ I replied . |
| 26 | You can talk through the fence . ’ |
| 27 | In independent companies , a band can talk to the people who count and who make the decisions . |
| 28 | ‘ If they wish to have their children privately educated and they feel they ca n't afford it , when the time comes they can talk to the benevolent fund , ’ he said . |
| 29 | The Weather Communications Aviation Service offers a 24-hour telephone service whereby callers can talk to the forecaster or one of his aides at any time . |
| 30 | I can talk to the waves . |