Example sentences of "talk of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The theist will want to argue that you can not talk of God in the way that you talk of other things .
2 Certainly they talk of other gods , but the nature of these gods is so different from that of the god whom Jews and Moslems are to follow that we might be tempted to deny that these others are gods at all .
3 We talk of many things , have no secrets from each other .
4 The theological term for this is analogia fidei ; that is to say , when we talk of eternal verities we have to resort to pictures , stories and other analogical expressions .
5 When we talk of human rights in relation to AIDS , these are ‘ our ’ rights too , not merely ‘ theirs ’ .
6 Perhaps I ought to make it clear that , when we talk of qualified lenders , we have in mind building societies , banks , insurance companies and other institutional lenders .
7 Talk of mad dogs and Englishmen , how brave of you to go visiting at this hour , Rosette and I have n't stirred a finger for ages . ’
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