Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] speak [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adviser then spoke to the whole department , pointing out to them that , ‘ the appraisal is a thing we as advisers are required to do . |
| 2 | A CHIEF Constable yesterday spoke of the growing public clamour for more policemen on the beat . |
| 3 | A CHIEF constable yesterday spoke of the growing public clamour for more policemen on the beat . |
| 4 | She put her name down to speak in the great debate about the state of the English Faculty that was held in the University Senate ; and in the Cambridge University Reporter for the 18th February , 1981 , occupying a column and a half of small print , sandwiched between contributions from two of the University 's most distinguished professors , you may find Robyn 's impassioned plea for a radical theorization of the syllabus . |
| 5 | When my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East rightly speaks of the essential nature of skills , training and investment , he has it exactly right . |
| 6 | The major class of adjectives which fall under this heading is again that of the associatives discussed in Chapter 2 , and as we have already noted these do not appear postnominally ( thus we also have a positive answer to the third question , though there is quite a lot more to add , see Section 3.10 ) : ( 38 ) Two scientists nuclear have joined the staff a hatmaker royal lives in our village ( The Hatmaker Royal , if one existed , would of course , like the Princess Royal , be the holder of an office which has a name calqued on the French once spoken by the English aristocracy , and not one based on the patterns of current English . ) |
| 7 | A voice synthesiser continuously speaks to the unauthorised driver warning that Autoseeker has been activated , the police alerted and that the vehicle will be automatically disabled within minutes . |