Example sentences of "we speak [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we speak of a delinquent subculture , we speak of a way of life that has somehow become traditional among certain groups in American society . |
| 2 | There are various contexts in which we speak of a person or institution being an authority . |
| 3 | From their written works it would appear that most psychologists up to about 1935 have assumed that these three things , separately or together , must constitute the whole of what we mean when we speak of a person feeling a touch as a touch on his shoulder or a pain as a pain in his foot . |
| 4 | We speak of a revolution ; and yet this intellectual transformation took so long to accomplish that there is no straightforward parallel with a political revolution . |
| 5 | We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ . |
| 6 | When we speak of a man of property , we may think , perhaps , in one of two ways . |
| 7 | On some nights one can see so many of these popularly-called shooting stars that we speak of a star or meteor shower . |
| 8 | We speak of a mother sacrificing her life for her children . |
| 9 | When we speak to a child , or to someone from another culture , we can easily estimate this knowledge incorrectly . |
| 10 | Now at the ages of 15 , 16 and 18 we speak to a lot more people , we know the staff a lot better and we take part in things such as karaoke and adult games etc , we do not go to the amusements and swim much now that we are older . |