Example sentences of "to talk about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family views about what is naughty or good start to be absorbed as mothers begin to talk about transgression of family rules or social behaviour . |
| 2 | Well as long as you continue to talk about particulate depositions , when you mean smuts on Mrs Brown 's last clean white shirt , nobody 's going to understand a great deal of what you 're talking about . |
| 3 | I mean I could do I think they 're fascinating and important — but I would prefer instead actually to talk about Darwinism Darwin as a biologist , rather than Darwin as a philosopher or as a influencer of morals and religious beliefs and so on . |
| 4 | It is all very well to talk about love , but it depends what you mean by it , for love is one of the most devalued terms and concepts in our language . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , I do n't want to talk about love , women , past marriages , present marriages , family , stuff that normal people do n't readily talk about … |
| 6 | When she stopped talking about art , she began to talk about love . |
| 7 | Or ‘ in our house we do n't like to talk about racism , everyone is tired in the evenings and we do n't like to talk about it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Miles , I did n't come down here to talk about insurance . ’ |
| 9 | He does not like to talk about manufacturing . |
| 10 | It is high time we ceased to allow people to talk about rugby union as a minority sport — even a post-World Cup modest club match on Rugby Special rated two million viewers . |
| 11 | This would however have involved a fairly cumbersome organisation , with regional committees and large numbers of volunteers trained to talk about money management to schoolchildren . |
| 12 | And I do n't want to talk about money . |
| 13 | He did n't like to talk about money any more than he used to like spending it . |
| 14 | But if we are to talk about pedagogy , individual effort must be referred to more general ideas , otherwise there is no way for experience to be communicated , no way in which others can derive benefit from the particular successes of the individual . |
| 15 | But , as Hoet , Baere , Tazzi and I discussed the exhibition , at a certain point it became clear that one of the best ways to talk about art is to let art speak for itself . |
| 16 | And if it were up to me , I 'd just want to talk about music , about a certain passage of Mozart and how I would place the emphasis at certain points , and how I feel I 'm a good interpreter at the piano , but not particularly a good technician … ‘ |
| 17 | ‘ You just want to talk about music and fucking and dope and that 's all . |
| 18 | As Agnes hurried down the street it came to her that it had been tactless of her to talk about life being dull and with no bright future ; for had they any bright future ? |
| 19 | But first she invited us to her retreat in rural Sweden to talk about life , love , family — and home |
| 20 | You simply can not begin to talk about cooperation with other oppressed groups if the European gay movements are themselves badly organised . |
| 21 | It is still so difficult to talk about rape , or having been raped . |
| 22 | Fortunately for the investigators , the fishermen were eager to talk about dolphin hunting . |
| 23 | Coupled with this factual thesis is the full-blooded relativist view that there are only these different views ; that to talk about morality is to make reference to them ; and that there is no fact-of-the-matter ; no independent concept of right and wrong ; of good and bad ; of duty or responsibility . |
| 24 | Expecting there would be lots of talk about economics , I was wanting to talk about morality , which are nearer to the gospel . |
| 25 | In December 1988 the American Physical Society ( APS ) had invited Jones to talk about muon catalysed fusion at their May 1989 meeting . |
| 26 | It was all very well for a gentleman to talk about Treason and France and Tom Paine — and he was taking care to do it where nobody was around — but one nod of agreement from him and the world could crash down on his head . |
| 27 | They sat on staircases to talk about poetry or politics , and many of them smoked long thin cigarettes rolled in dark brown paper and smelling of perfume . |
| 28 | So I think I 'm fairly qualified to talk about stress and anxiety in cats . |
| 29 | But I had never really formed any ambition to become a Member of Parliament , I just talked about things which I love to talk about till all of a sudden one of the guests said : ‘ You want to be a Member of Parliament do n't you ? ’ and I said , ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 30 | We stray off course , to talk about glamour . |