Example sentences of "[pers pn] speak of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 2 | What I can say , however , is that the constructivist position allows a distinctive analysis of the ‘ mental ’ when we speak of a ‘ mental representation of a green patch ’ : it helps us to understand the difference between mental representations and the non-mental variety ( a photograph for example ) . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | When we speak of a man of property , we may think , perhaps , in one of two ways . |
| 5 | We speak of a mother sacrificing her life for her children . |
| 6 | There are various contexts in which we speak of a person or institution being an authority . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In many cases we speak of a given condition as cause and it is the one action or piece of behaviour involved , something to which responsibility attaches . |
| 12 | On some nights one can see so many of these popularly-called shooting stars that we speak of a star or meteor shower . |
| 13 | They speak of a person ‘ having a foot in two boats ’ . |