Example sentences of "speak at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that only one person can speak at a time and that members can not address each other directly . |
| 2 | Being a good and persuasive talker is a must for this work as you may have to get up and speak at a sales conference or at an agency presentation . |
| 3 | Once I heard him speak at a church service in Morton , and although he was an excellent speaker , there was a certain bitterness and disappointment in his words . |
| 4 | The three candidates Mr Fowler , Mrs Fletcher and Frank Cook , who defends the seat for Labour will speak at an open forum arranged by the Christian Election Forum in Norton parish church , at 8pm on Sunday . |
| 5 | So if you would usually start the programme with the address from the mayor at 9.30am , consider having the mayor speak at a breakfast at 8am and then give everyone a two-hour break from 11am to have a sight-seeing walk or shopping session before returning for lunch . |
| 6 | Speak at a constant level . |
| 7 | John Cross , speaking at a press conference to mark the publication yesterday of The Military Balance 1989-90 , the institute 's authoritative annual survey of world armed forces , said that the cuts under way in the Warsaw Pact ‘ do tend to support Soviet claims of new thinking ’ . |
| 8 | Speaking at a packed fringe meeting , however , Mr Heseltine urged quick action . |
| 9 | But there was no indication that Mr Beregovoy , speaking at a business seminar , was suggesting that there were any negotiations for full British EMS membership . |
| 10 | Mr Mbeki was speaking at a meeting of the South Africa Coalition , a broad grouping of British organisations trying to change British policy over South Africa . |
| 11 | He was speaking at a press conference in Dublin following the decision by the Irish Republic 's Director of Public Prosecutions on Thursday not to bring a case under the 1976 Criminal Law Jurisdiction Act , allowing prosecutions in the Republic for offences allegedly committed in Britain . |
| 12 | Speaking at a press conference later about the Bonn government 's attitude to accepting existing borders and renouncing any territorial claims , he pointed an accusing figure at Chancellor Helmut Kohl for his recent plan for reunification . |
| 13 | The following night , I was speaking at a transport dinner in London and found myself sitting two or three down from a general . |
| 14 | Indeed , Ernest Bevin , speaking at a union dinner , maintained that , if there is a new conception of the objects of industry , then there can be created in this country … conditions which will minimize strikes and probably make them non-existent for 25 years . ’ |
| 15 | He was speaking at a Reading University dairy information systems ( DAISY ) meeting held for veterinary surgeons . |
| 16 | Speaking at a news conference he said : ‘ Ian Lang [ the Scottish Secretary ] has talked of a referendum and I welcome that . |
| 17 | Malcolm Green , an Oxford chemist , speaking at a symposium in London , recently described a tungsten compound that will react with certain carbon hydrogen bonds . |
| 18 | Rutter , who was speaking at a conference organised by CLEAR , the anti-lead group , went on to question the way committees such as the Lawther committee are set up . |
| 19 | Speaking at a conference on space science and technology in Rome last week , Adeniyi said that such schemes have little point if the engineers are unable to use their knowledge when they return home . |
| 20 | Speaking at a press conference on security , Reagan raised the banner for a new approach to national defence — a move away from massive retaliation toward a new defensive technology , hovering in space , that could nullify the Soviet Union 's arsenal of missiles . |
| 21 | Speaking at a recent Financial Times conference on financial reporting in the UK , Nigel Stapleton of Reed International , chairman of the 100 Group 's technical committee , disclosed that the ASB had received about 100 responses to its draft proposals issued last April . |
| 22 | Speaking at a meeting attended by some 400 people in the local village hall that continued for two and a half hours local primary teacher Donal O'Connor said children should not be used in future protests . |
| 23 | Indeed , Jones took time out in October 1988 to visit Europe , speaking at a meeting on muon catalysed fusion and having a brief vacation with his wife , hardly the behaviour expected of someone who is frenziedly responding to the sudden emergence on the scene of competition . |
| 24 | The Right Reverend Philip Goodrich , Bishop of Worcester , was speaking at a conference on the future of marriage . |
| 25 | He heard them alongside recordings of Di speaking at a conference and said that although there were similarities , the voice patterns of the unidentified woman did NOT match Di 's . |
| 26 | Speaking at a conference on the ‘ Future of the Irish Country House ’ ( 26 February ) , the Prime Minister of Ireland , Albert Reynolds made a statement of profound importance about how Ireland has come to terms with its Anglo-Irish past , at least so far as its architecture is concerned . |
| 27 | ComputerWorld quotes Intel Corp architectural manager Daniel Hoskins , speaking at a Unisys Cube and Use user group conference , as saying the 66MHz Pentium as been tested internally to run over 112 MIPS . |
| 28 | Speaking at a conference organised by The Community Research Centre , Help the Aged UK director Wally Harbert said government policy over the past 14 years had promoted institutional care at the expense of individual needs . |
| 29 | The laboratory 's John Barton , speaking at a conference in London last year , described a number of occasions when decisions to invest in schemes to recycle rubbish or to burn it as fuel had been based on estimates of commercial and household waste that turned out to be much too high . |
| 30 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp has scrapped the 55MHz version of its superscalar Sparc RISC , the HyperSparc , according to company official Bob Richards , speaking at a HyperSparc workstation conference in Zurich , Switzerland last week . |