Example sentences of "[adv] speak [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relationships grow stressful when managers and subordinates bump elbows , so to speak within the same frame of reference . |
| 2 | They will not be led by preachers at their church to face up to the fact that there are four Gospels , that John is significantly different from the Synoptics , that the New Testament writers do not always speak with the same voice even on essential matters of faith . |
| 3 | The view was that radio should always speak with the same voice as the Government , aiming to educate and improve rather than entertain the public . |
| 4 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 5 | It changes over time , just as any language does : no one nowadays speaks in the same way as the contemporaries of Chaucer or Shakespeare or even Dickens . |