Example sentences of "speak of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who have seen the Helmund poppy fields speak of their beauty — mile after mile of even poppies , like the tulip fields of Holland . |
| 2 | All of them , however , speak of their work with a sincere and passionate commitment . |
| 3 | Many grandparents in these situations speak of their sense of powerlessness as well as their confusion as they try to sort out their sadness and loss and learn to accept their new families . |
| 4 | The highest nobility were only very few in numbers , so that when we speak of their hold upon military commands we must , consciously or not , include those who had inherited relatively low noble rank or who had only risen that far through their own efforts . |
| 5 | ( Armstrong , 1978a , b ; Loux , 1976 ; P. F. Strawson , 1979 ) Those philosophers who have been most Platonic or " realistic " about general properties necessarily speak of their instances . |
| 6 | Or , one could attempt to see whether the issues raised occur again in the concerns of teachers and pupils as they speak of their experiences of schooling . |
| 7 | Even in those early days , accounts of Emerson 's races all speak of his smoothness , his restraint , his carefulness . |
| 8 | From the beginning , all the recollections and anecdotes speak of his open-handedness . |
| 9 | More interestingly , those who knew him well speak of his outstanding security . |
| 10 | Those close to him speak of his warmth and kindness . |
| 11 | In our day there is little of the earlier resignation in the face of death ; we resist it to the limits of medical technology , and our obituaries speak of our ‘ gallant struggle ’ . |
| 12 | When we speak of our economic growth on the basis of market relations ( this is the ‘ meaning ’ of NEP from a certain angle ) , we thereby disprove the thesis of the opposition of socialist accumulation ( even ) to the law of value . |
| 13 | ‘ My son kept a diary … three weeks before he flew to Moscow he recorded that he met an Alan Millet … four days before he left he met again with Alan Millet … why now does this Alan Millet speak of our son as if he were not known to him ? |
| 14 | ‘ You speak of my mother … yet I do not know you … ’ |
| 15 | It may surprise the reader ( who after all is charged with the task of making an important decision ) , that I should talk of my time at university as a happy one and yet still speak of my dominant emotion as fear , but then the worst is yet to come . |
| 16 | And you speak of my sins ! ’ |
| 17 | Things like pencils and tables and houses and electronic calculators , as well as living beings , are " temporal " entities in the sense that we can meaningfully speak of their life-span , their " coming into being " and " going out of existence " or " ceasing to be " . |
| 18 | Before he could speak of their business she pulled out of her pocketbook some sheets of notepaper on which , just after lunch , she had dashed down what , if accepted , would become the heads of agreement between them . |
| 19 | Foster , who won the international competition in 1984 , calls his a ‘ calm and classical building ’ which suggests ‘ ways in which the new can relate to the old , can pay respect but can also speak of its own age with integrity and without pastiche ’ . |
| 20 | And both , but most often my grandmother , would speak of her brother , Nethan ( Nathaniel ) ; of his good looks , of his skill as a musician , of how he had tried several times and failed to persuade my grandfather to enlist . |
| 21 | How dared he speak of her dead cousin in that scathing voice ? |
| 22 | So , I think , if you are asking me I can only speak of my personal experience . |
| 23 | But he does n't speak of my uncle . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't speak of my brother like that ! ’ |
| 25 | Since I did n't know Jackie in his racing years , I can only speak of his character as I 've known it since I975 , a period by which he had already become obsessed with driver safety and a real force in improving conditions for drivers . |
| 26 | Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother . |
| 27 | Ultimately , we must have a strong , indigenous film production industry so that we can make strong and successful films which will speak of our culture to the outside world with creativity , power and commitment . |
| 28 | In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe , it was not unusual to hear naturalists speaking of their scientific awakening in terms that might be used of a religious conversion . |
| 29 | Of course Christians also want to start in the present in speaking of their awareness of God . |
| 30 | In the next few days she had kept speaking of their child as ‘ my son ’ , with a possessiveness that struck him as bestial and prescient . |