Example sentences of "speak [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I speak through this and it bounces of the dish to the other one . |
| 2 | I 've also ventured to draft a letter re the academic people , and would suggest you consider putting in ( University of Stirling ) and ( University of Edinburgh ) as telephone contact points , so that they can — if their peer group is interested — speak as participating members about the benefits of membership . |
| 3 | Will you , this once , speak for two of us , |
| 4 | we we we speak for two days at least in compiling a script . |
| 5 | I am sure that I speak for all district society presidents when I say that this is just not true . |
| 6 | I know I speak for all of us … ’ |
| 7 | I speak for all the servants of the embassy in Paris . |
| 8 | As to coming together for further talks , I think that I speak for all those who were involved in the talks in the summer , which we concluded , when I say that those who took part in them felt that they were valuable and looked forward to the possibility of being able to hold talks again . |
| 9 | I cite as an example the urban areas of the city which I partially represent — I speak for all of Birmingham when I speak on this issue , and I am trying to raise an important matter in which there may be some common cause . |
| 10 | I do not know whether I speak for all my right hon. and hon. Friends . |
| 11 | I am sure I speak for all of us here when I say that our thoughts are with the Miletti family in this ordeal . ’ |
| 12 | Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had . |
| 13 | I believe that I speak for many others , both in my party and outside it , who want to see a successful conclusion at Maastricht and who want political and economic union in Europe to go forward . |
| 14 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 15 | you believe that I 'm wearing a hairpiece so you do n't know and I I speak for most |
| 16 | I 'm sure I speak for most Merseysiders in saying enough is enough . |
| 17 | If you speak for more than about a fifth of the total time this is not appraisal , it 's lecturing , or worse , pontificating . |
| 18 | For notwithstanding I trust to bring you off happily , with the goodwill of our lord the king and all who best speak for this land , yet I do know there are some who may have other thoughts concerning you . |
| 19 | One of the problems of the dependency approach is precisely that its proponents too often speak about one country as dependent on another in a vague and unhelpful fashion . |
| 20 | Where there never many ghost stories speak about some of them but |
| 21 | As a Scot , I speak about shared sovereignty with great feeling . |
| 22 | ‘ I speak of certain matters , ’ Sophie said . |
| 23 | The social workers speak a language of " task-centred social work " — a reference to a course of programmed activities with clients ; the nurses speak of behavioural change programmes — again , a reference to sustained work with clients , although not entirely identical to social work approaches . |
| 24 | In the Vindiciae the reply is that " when we speak of all the people , we understand by that , only those who hold their authority from the people , to wit , the magistrates … whom the people have substituted , or established … to represent the whole body of the people . |
| 25 | Indeed often , and only sometimes rhetorically , we speak of such works as works of art — a particular knife , pot , aeroplane , bridge — but usually with the sense that this is an additional quality , when the primary purpose of the object has been already acknowledged . |
| 26 | They describe our world , and speak of other worlds beyond . |
| 27 | She would shake her head and deftly speak of other matters , though never about her father 's past . |
| 28 | But we must go further and when men speak of dark skies , we must think of our own bright interior skies . |
| 29 | Spontaneous as they always seem , these watercolours speak of long contemplation and of profound love and understanding of the Yorkshire fells . |
| 30 | When we speak of strong attachment or attraction between two people we are in the realms of love , the basis on which many people in our culture choose or are drawn towards their marriage partner . |