Example sentences of "to speak [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please let me know if you wish to speak during lunchbreak so that I can gauge roughly how long it will take . |
| 2 | In 1853 Mrs Reid gave hospitality to Harriet Beecher Stowe , who had come to England to speak about slavery at private gatherings of women , and in 1860 she shared her home with Sarah Redmond , the first black woman to undertake a public lecture tour in Britain on the slavery question , who later studied at Bedford College . |
| 3 | Well if I mind right , I think my mother used to speak about man , , that had this fish curing station over at the hens |
| 4 | These terms are carefully coded and they are significant because they enable people to speak about race without mentioning the word . |
| 5 | In the debates over proposed changes to the criminal law , politicians continued to argue that to speak about sex was to corrupt . |
| 6 | But for the majority it was purity which provided the language both to challenge men 's immorality and to stake out their own claim to speak about sex . |
| 7 | Women were empowered to speak about sex , challenging the authority of the experts and drawing attention to their gendered power relations . |
| 8 | The Opposition are always quick to speak about unemployment . |
| 9 | And we knew how frightened she was , how disturbed , because Luke told us that — told us fresh from her bed and hardly able to speak for laughter . ’ |
| 10 | There is an urgent need for a powerful voice to speak for education when government policies and programmes are unrealistic , ill timed or inadequately resourced . |
| 11 | Organization : There is a Committee of Ministers ( consisting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of all member states ) which decides with binding effect all matters of internal organization , makes recommendations to governments and may also draw up conventions and agreements ; a Parliamentary Assembly of 170 members who are elected or appointed by their national parliaments from among the members thereof to speak for public opinion , not to represent their governments ; and a Secretariat , the current Secretary-General being Catherine Lalumiere ( since May 1989-ibid . ) . |
| 12 | And practically nothing has been done to establish effective machinery of joint conference between the representative organizations entitled to speak for industry as a whole . |
| 13 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 14 | Jane nodded , afraid to speak for fear of damming the flow . |
| 15 | We were numb ; we did n't want to speak for fear of returning to our banal selves again . |
| 16 | Brian Meek , for the Conservatives , said : ‘ I do n't know exactly that this organisation has any right to speak for democracy in Scotland , nor do I believe that it 's an all-party organisation … |
| 17 | For several seconds the two women sat staring at one another , unable to speak for thinking of that awful scene . |
| 18 | He blurted out that he was unable to speak for pain , so his defence was never heard . |
| 19 | Yet if prevention has not taken place , then surely it is too late to speak of performance ? |
| 20 | The problem is that , to speak of noise , to give it attributes , to claim things for it , is immediately to shackle it with meaning again , to make it part of culture . |
| 21 | It is this in fact that makes it possible to speak of man as a sinner , deserving judgement , because he is capable of guilt and bears responsibility for what he has made of himself ; and precisely here lies the point upon which God 's grace in Jesus Christ comes to bear . |
| 22 | Brunner wished to speak of man as created and fallen , as standing in guilt under the wrath and judgement of God , apart from Jesus Christ . |
| 23 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's simple for us to speak of love , ’ I said to Helen . |
| 25 | In this case there is a clear and recurrent difference of meaning between transitive and intransitive occurrences of hide , and it is therefore more satisfactory to speak of hide 1 , which is a full cognitive synonym of conceal , and a separate item hide 2 . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's very kind of you , but you ought to remember that there 's no competition to speak of back in the laboratory ! ’ |
| 27 | Indeed it is hardly too much to speak of jade and gold as embodying distinct standards of value . |
| 28 | At the same time , however , he had agreed with Rosenberg in late 1941 that it was inappropriate to speak of extermination in public . |
| 29 | There are some manners left , not to speak of anxiety . |
| 30 | Because philosophy and science now occupy the secondary position that was previously ascribed to literature , it makes no sense to speak of literature as a special kind of language . |