Example sentences of "[noun] to speak [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There certainly is n't any light to speak of in the windows . |
| 2 | Nigel did n't get any attention to speak of for the rest of that day . |
| 3 | Although there was a sort of medieval corporation , it did n't have a Royal Charter and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted , and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the Borough Commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in eighteen eighty one . |
| 4 | Although there was a sort of mediaeval corporation it did n't have the royal charter , and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the borough commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in 1881 . |
| 5 | As we have noted , many countries had no press to speak of at the time of independence , and in those that did the press has undergone a considerable amount of change . |
| 6 | Outside Senegal and the Ivory Coast there was very little press to speak of in the pre-independence period : illiteracy was even higher than in the British territories , and the small , educated élite could not easily sustain newspapers . |