Example sentences of "[be] [adj] speak [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol McEvoy and her daughters Angela and Moira are due to speak at a press conference at Cleveland police 's headquarters in Middlesbrough . |
| 2 | The guided tour takes the form of a procession ; all doctors are interested to speak to a foreigner . |
| 3 | Until perhaps twenty years ago , it would have been pointless to speak of a radical tradition in British adult education in isolation from the organised labour movement . |
| 4 | erm In principle it should be possible to be able to speak into a microphone , or to write on a pad , with a pencil , and the computer would be connected to the microphone or the pad and would take in and interpret what you 've done , without having to learn this rather clumsy method of putting things in one letter at a time . |
| 5 | I hold the view very strongly — and I know I have been criticised for it — that when a government has not got great experience , is a minority government , it is essential if you can possibly support it that it should be able to speak with a strong voice to the countries of the world . |
| 6 | If it is legitimate to speak of a gene as affecting the wrinkliness of a pea or the nervous system of an animal ( all geneticists think it is ) then it must also be legitimate to speak of a gene as affecting the hardness of the stones in a caddis house . |
| 7 | It would be expedient to speak in a language which appealed to progressive Americans , not least when the delicate question of the British Empire arose . |
| 8 | It is only with the development of more radical differentiation in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century that it is possible to speak of a fully-fledged and optimally differentiated cultural modernity . |
| 9 | It is hard to speak against a situation that makes everyone happy , but one has to say it represents a form of intellectual inflation that is just as pernicious in its way as monetary inflation . |
| 10 | Until the reign of Mehmed II ( 1451–81 ) it is difficult to speak of a learned hierarchy since the practice of reserving the individual offices of state to men of a particular background and training whether to slaves of the Palace School system , to the ulema , or to men of the bureaucratic profession — had not yet become developed to any very great degree . |
| 11 | If it is not , then it is premature to speak of a unitary stylistic affinity between Great Witcombe " and the Leicester pavements : an integral level of affinity is " more appropriate . |
| 12 | If it is legitimate to speak of a gene as affecting the wrinkliness of a pea or the nervous system of an animal ( all geneticists think it is ) then it must also be legitimate to speak of a gene as affecting the hardness of the stones in a caddis house . |
| 13 | In 1921 Lord Northcliffe , the founder of the London newspaper the Daily Mail , was due to speak at a dinner for 3000 staff to celebrate the twenty-fifth birthday of the paper , but he had a throat infection , and his doctor advised him not to speak . |
| 14 | In Huaiwiri , as well as Ajdabiya and Benghazi , it was impolitic to speak among men of women 's ‘ freedom ’ , as this caused misunderstanding ; but it was possible to speak of a condition ( that is to say , of education ) as a principle and as a practical measure . |
| 15 | George was unable to speak for a moment or two . |
| 16 | Similarly bodies such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England , often depicted as the last refuge of ex-Etonian Guards officers and assorted upper-class cranks , was able to speak with a new confidence and a new authority , attract a new breed of membership and turn itself into a highly professional custodian of the English countryside . |