Example sentences of "talking of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would be talking of the iniquities of bottled ale when a shadow crossed his eyes . |
| 2 | In assistants particularly with part time you 're talking of the order of fifty to fifty five percent . |
| 3 | Far from talking of the plutonium problem , desperate Russian nuclear engineers , encouraged by the plutonium industry in France and Britain , want to begin a new programme to build fast reactors running on plutonium , undaunted by difficulties the West has had with such technology . |
| 4 | One day when the terrible moment comes and it is bound to come when we shall be talking of the Serb national catastrophe , when we shall be questioning ourselves about who was responsible for it and how it came about that we are the last nation in Europe to be surrounded by such enemies and such hatred , then many of the great brains of the Academy will find themselves in the dock if they live to see the day . |
| 5 | He was standing , now , with Fatimah Bankhead and Mr and Mrs Akhtar , talking of the school 's future plans . |
| 6 | The authorities in Beijing realised that ‘ many college students … suffered serious mental problems because of loneliness or anxiety over their studies or love lives ’ ( CD 23. 2. 1988 ) and several major institutions were talking of the possibility of setting up advisory bodies for students with emotional problems , but few actually existed . |
| 7 | We were talking of the boys you know one time she used to go with Richard and |
| 8 | ( Kenny does not add that if we were talking of the perceptions of fish or bees , our judgements might lack the confidence of those made of cats or apes . ) |
| 9 | Justifying the railway deficit in 1980 , for example , the chairman maintained that ‘ no one would think of talking of the deficit of the armed forces or of the fact that our state educational establishments show a deficit … ’ |
| 10 | That is to say , I am talking of the likes of Mr Marshall of Charleville House , or Mr Lane of Bridewood . |
| 11 | Whether we are talking of the families portrayed in reading schemes and modern languages material , the heroes of novels chosen in English literature , or the personages selected as worthy of interest in history , the picture may be of a male who is larger than life , dominant and personality-projecting . |
| 12 | He told me that he got an awful rocket from the Director of Accounts when he handed in the bill which worked out at several hundred pounds — and here we are talking of the year 1946 ! |
| 13 | And talking of the Alps and Apennines , |
| 14 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 15 | ‘ We are talking of the art of the conjuror … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been talking of the mistress , and her strange behaviour , shepherd , ’ said the maltster . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're talking of the Brotherhood ? ’ |
| 18 | Ian Paisley , who had travelled to Rome to disrupt the visit , accused Dr Robert Runcie of ‘ treacherous and lawless behaviour ’ when talking of the Pope 's role in the universal Church . |
| 19 | Well , just , but no-one writes 'em like Sebadoh , unless you 're talking of the surfeit of spirit that infused Alex Chilton 's wildest torch-songs , the challenging of expectations Sonic Youth practise or the studied waywardness of The Fall . |
| 20 | Although talking of the inevitability and necessity of crime , Durkheim did not mean to suggest the more crime the better . |
| 21 | Little groups stood about talking of the war or Brighton or what they were going to cook for supper . |
| 22 | WE should note when talking of the Rover car company 's current success that it was Honda of Japan that modernised Rover 's factories . |
| 23 | Panslavists were soon talking of the Congress as a conspiracy against the Russian people . |
| 24 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 25 | The Russian writer , Ilya Ehrenburg , remembered evenings at the canteen when Modi sat on the stairs : ‘ sometimes declaiming Dante , sometimes talking of the slaughterhouse , of the end of civilization , of poetry , of anything except paintings . ’ |
| 26 | Yet I still believe what I said to Martinho , as he cocked his blind head towards me before talking of the hand of God : there 's always someone else who 'll step forward . |
| 27 | When you used that word in our session last week you were talking of the taste of semen . |
| 28 | And talking of the death of the novel , here is my all-purpose article on the subject , available for a modest fee to any hack who wants to put it out under his own byline : |
| 29 | And we 're really primarily talking of the morning problems or the e the evening problems . |