Example sentences of "speaks of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Luke nowhere speaks of the new covenant unless Luke 22:19b and 20 are original ( against the main weight of manuscript attestation ) . |
| 2 | The presenter of This Is Your Life flinches when he speaks of the recent major surgery on Patrick 's hip . |
| 3 | When one speaks of the biblical God , one automatically says ‘ He ’ : that God is profoundly male . |
| 4 | The apostle Peter speaks of the mutual submissiveness of wives and husbands , just as Jesus himself was submissive in his time on earth to death . |
| 5 | When a dictatorship seriously violates human rights and attacks the common good of the nation , when it becomes unbearable or closes all channels of dialogue , of understanding , of rationality , when this happens , the Church speaks of the legitimate right of insurrectional violence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Roger Duvoisin ( 1965 , p.25 ) extends this idea when he speaks of the well-designed page . |
| 8 | Paul speaks of the pastoral situation of a Christian man or woman being married to someone who is not a Christian . |
| 9 | Maximilian Novak speaks of the eighteenth century as the ‘ Age of Disguise ’ , and Terry Castle treats the masquerade as a central metaphor of eighteenth century culture Leapor adamantly refuses to conceal herself . |
| 10 | This belief in the interrelationship of life in all its forms may find corroboration from St. Paul who speaks of the whole creation groaning in pain and awaiting deliverance from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God . |
| 11 | The first speaks of the empty tomb or rising again after burial , of appearing to apostles , women disciples , and other witnesses . |
| 12 | In commenting on the enabling function of the tribunal , the research study speaks of the heavy burden placed on the tribunal of eliciting all the relevant information about the case and applying the law to the facts in an impartial and objective manner . |
| 13 | Their work is relevant to us and speaks of the human condition not because it attains universality and ‘ objectivity ’ , as Goody and others would imply , but on the contrary precisely because of its articulation with the real social experience in which they participated . |
| 14 | He sometimes speaks of the scientific method as one of the possible methods of responding to doubt , sometimes as a ‘ way of life ’ , but he always seems to see it as optional though supremely rational . |