Example sentences of "[adj] to talk of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when the problems of war and , later , unemployment were national priorities , it would be fallacious to talk of the existence of a ‘ poverty lobby ’ , operating on a broad front and according equal status to all disadvantaged groups . |
| 2 | You 're right to talk of the past . |
| 3 | Mr Palios said : ‘ It 's more appropriate to talk of the company having badwill than goodwill . ’ |
| 4 | In the same way we are not able to talk of the volume of agricultural yields and the excess per capita from the farms . |
| 5 | They are simply those rights which underpin the conditions under which it is meaningful to talk of the student 's right to learn . |
| 6 | It would be unkind to talk of the pollsters making excuses , but they do have explanations . |
| 7 | Perhaps the main reason why we are so strongly inclined to talk of the head as the locality of our thoughts is this … |
| 8 | ( It turns out that there may be a number of lexicons used by the skilled reader — for input and output processing , and for input of words by sight or sound — but for our purposes it is sufficient to talk of the lexicon as the store of word meanings . |