Example sentences of "[noun sg] speak [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The witness speaks to the accused , whereby the witness has an opportunity of recognizing the thieves and the animal with its brandmarks . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Until the eighteenth century , religion was the only force to speak to the central concerns of human beings , the only explanation for human suffering which was available . |
| 4 | It is always a pleasure to speak in the same debate as the hon. Member for Beaconsfield ( Mr. Smith ) . |
| 5 | Instead Sumner went with various other senators , representatives and the President , Johnson , to hear Hall speak in the largest Presbyterian Church in Washington . |
| 6 | A hound spoke at the far end of the wood . |
| 7 | Does he also agree that , although the violence of the provisional IRA and others who claim with no legitimacy to speak for the Irish people as a whole , is sickening , it is equally disgusting , disgraceful and sickening to see those who claim to be loyal to the Unionist cause killing , tit for tat , for no reason other than that people happen to be Catholic ? |
| 8 | INVITING Mussolini 's grand-daughter to speak at the Tory Party conference has caused outrage . |
| 9 | They had all been inhibited from plain speaking by the lavish hospitality , the fresh scampi with avocado had been too ‘ mucked about ’ for her taste , while that dreadful black man had insisted on telling her all about his times in and out of the ring with ‘ Big Frank ’ ( ‘ a lovely suit of clothes ’ ) , interrupting himself only to raise his glass of pink wine to Sir Ralph who had , in his opinion , ‘ done us proud ’ . |
| 10 | I lowered my head quickly , as if to acknowledge the truth spoken by the old woman Khadija when she heard of my decision to travel to London . |
| 11 | Ronnie Massarella , Chef d'Equip of the British Equestrian team spoke of the hard realities facing competitors , and Richard Whiteley of Yorkshire TV generously agreed to act as MC for the event . |
| 12 | I began with the desire to speak with the dead . |
| 13 | Oh at Handsworth , I 'm meant to go there this evening to speak to the domestic bursar the residents ' officer and someone else , God knows , from the university to put my case forward for why I had to leave Handsworth and that , why I should n't pay the money . |
| 14 | The programme will include Brian Porteous from the Council 's Sponsorship Advisory Service speaking about the latest research exercise carried out by the Council into sponsorship in Scotland ; Derek Etherington , Consultant to the English Sports Council talking about UK developments : lawyer Stephen Townley giving guidance on contract negotiations plus media experts and representatives of leading Scottish companies giving practical advice on how to make effective sponsorship proposals . |
| 15 | Not one character speaks in the same way as another one . |
| 16 | It becomes full representation only if the elected person speaks with the authentic accents of those who elected him … he should share their values ; that is , be in touch with their realities . |
| 17 | DEFIANT Dave Beasant last night spoke for the first time since his week-end goalkeeping torment and insisted : ‘ I still want to play for Chelsea . ’ |
| 18 | Besides , he had not yet had a chance to speak to the investigating magistrate about the pay-off . |
| 19 | In the case of the Caribbean slave communities , this probably took only a short time : for example , we know that the emergence of Sranan Tongo , an English-lexified Creole spoken in the coastal region of Surinam , can be dated with reasonable accuracy to a period between the arrival of the first English slave-owning planters in the middle of the seventeenth century , and their expulsion by the Dutch : a total of less than thirty years . |
| 20 | Intel Corp president and chief executive Andy Grove was in Japan last week speaking at the Downsizing Japan conference in Makuhari , near Tokyom , and delivered a few comments about the future of the industry in which Intel is such as major player , and about semiconductors as a trade issue . |
| 21 | The ferryman speaks to the same effect . |
| 22 | Dexter thought the inspector spoke with the brittle confidence of someone who underneath was not that sure of himself . |
| 23 | The man in the chair spoke for the first time . |
| 24 | It was felt that married women like Butler should lead the movement , because her status as wife and mother gave her more authority to speak about the delicate issue of sexuality . |
| 25 | A bumper sticker on the San Diego Freeway speaks with the authentic , sunny voice of greater Los Angeles : ‘ People are fantastic . |
| 26 | The objective spoken by the central character , but clearly articulated by Mailer himself , is to get at , if not actually become , ‘ the mind of America ’ . |
| 27 | The knight speaks for the landed interest , the merchant for international trade , and the capper for the working master craftsman . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The headmaster Stan Hughes in his address spoke of the senseless loss of one so young … |
| 30 | Again , the composer spoke of the Romanian voice in her music which came from a Jungian kind of collective unconsciousness . |