Example sentences of "[noun] speak of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very notion of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire speaks of a Northern conviction that the North is where class is , the real working class . |
| 2 | Before going into the meeting the Irish team spoke of a good deal of hope for peace and the Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew said all options remained open . |
| 3 | Jokes were thin on the ground but when Mr Lamont spoke of a new form of do-it-yourself income tax form for the self employed one MP raised a titter when he shouted : ‘ At least that 'll suit one person — John Birt ( the BBC director general ) ’ . |
| 4 | Reports in the papers the following day spoke of a naked man going berserk on the street and being struck by a car . |
| 5 | Neighbours spoke of a quiet man who spent most of his spare time working for charity . |
| 6 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 7 | The mystics speak of a rare wine pressed in a high valley of the Pamirs of the mind whose property is not to charm the palate but the soul ; a wine that , like the opium of De Quincey , can overturn the sentences of unjust judges . |
| 8 | Others speak of a Spanish grandee who offered up the corpse of his lovely young wife in this way , hoping in his grief that her elements might be dispersed about the air . |
| 9 | In Manila and New Delhi , demonstrators burned effigies of Uncle Sam and President Bush , while Arab commentators spoke of a new crusade by the West against the Islamic world . |
| 10 | And in fact , under the name of ‘ Therapeutae ’ , Philo speaks of a Judiac sect or enclave whose attitudes and practices are identical with those of the Essenes or Zadokites in the Holy Land — identical , in other words , with those of Jesus 's subsequent following . |