Example sentences of "speak from [art] " in BNC.

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1 A Japanese on the board will probably be a business school graduate with extensive overseas experience , who will speak from a position of strength .
2 Erm , it 's it 's alright being a naughty boy , it 's quite accepted that you are , I 'm using the the the masculine , because I can speak from a male point of view , I suppose .
3 Well I could speak from a personal experience .
4 Fr Anthony , who will speak from the multi-cultural perspective of the Caribbean , is currently involved in postgraduate work on St Lucia 's Nobel Prize winner for Literature , Derek Walcott .
5 He must speak from the heart .
6 I tried to write a speech last year and I made a right mess of it , so this year I 'm gon na speak from the heart , because I might get a boo like the leader of the council here , I install water meters .
7 Great poets speak from a position of morality , of authority and that 's the one thing these people ca n't abide .
8 Speak from a comfortable position .
9 Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course .
10 I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want .
11 He was speaking from a mind full of ideas and images , which all offered insight in varying ways , which he sought to reflect on over several years .
12 Speaking from a psychological perspective , we understand why this wedge seems to throw the door of desire wider open with every new pleasure .
13 Speaking from a personal experience , I had to go through a similar kind of programme after years of cocaine abuse .
14 She was speaking from a phone-box near the sea wall .
15 She was speaking from a call-box , he could hear the noises of the road , traffic , an aeroplane passing overhead .
16 Because if you 're speaking from a script you 're going to be speaking like this .
17 Erm , where possibly like the , the anorexic , well I do n't know cos I 'm not speaking from an anorexic point of view , but I think the , the point we 're saying , emotions are there but they 're dealt with in a , a different way , you know they perhaps starve themselves erm , to sort of like , erm you know ge , get across these emotions , to deal with these emotions .
18 Speaking from the offices of his Manchester travel business yesterday , Charlton would only comment : ‘ There is a legal case pending , and it is a very , very dicey situation .
19 ‘ I am speaking from the home of Mrs Browning , ’ I said .
20 Speaking from the expedition 's base camp at Camp Resolute , Devon Island , Canada , Miss Elaine May , the expedition 's link with the outside world , said the first days had gone well , with the team covering 15 miles a day .
21 The main disadvantage of this arrangement is that the cameras are looking down on those speaking from the front-benches , and , unless they take care to keep their heads up , the tops of their heads rather than their faces are exposed on the screen .
22 the King , usually speaking from the royal study at Sandringham .
23 ‘ Though speaking from the longest distance , ’ wrote the editor of the Highbury Quadrant Church magazine , ‘ Mr Dawson , as on previous occasions , was best heard of all .
24 Speaking from the sharp end , I get a very different perspective .
25 Clearly , Jose was speaking from the perspective of a Nigerian journalist : much of what he said was true only of his own and a handful of other countries .
26 Professor Mark Roberts , speaking from the centre of the critical consensus , declared : ‘ It does n't issue from an understanding of reality which is not to be denied , it is not moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être . ’
27 However , since the late 1960s — roughly speaking from the time of the escalation of the Vietnam War and the student riots in Paris — the rate of growth of gross national product in real terms in all Western countries has fallen noticeably .
28 You are expressing your personal responses , and speaking from the heart as much as from the head , so there is no need to try and paint an apparently ‘ objective ’ picture with appeal to the intellect .
29 ‘ Someone like Ice Cube says , ‘ This is me speaking from the street ’ .
30 However , UI chief Peter Cunningham , speaking from the dais , alluded to discussions that were being held at the highest levels and suggested that they were very close to some sort of agreement .
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