Example sentences of "speak [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same year , writing of how as good writers ‘ we have not borrowed , we have been quickened , and we become bearers of a tradition ’ , Eliot complains ( before quoting a revoicing of Seneca by Chapman which would be used in ‘ Gerontion ’ ) that in contemporary poetry , ‘ No dead voices speak through the living voice ; no reincarnation , no re-creation . ’ |
| 2 | Clegg , in the first novel , is obsessed from the beginning , after he has heard Miranda speak for the first time , he says ‘ It haunted me . |
| 3 | A Protestant woman , naturally , I do n't speak for the other sort . ’ |
| 4 | The trouble is that nobody can speak for the whole profession because of the various ways in which the profession is divided . |
| 5 | Sometimes people ca n't speak for the same sort of reasons , but it 's always got to be something traumatic that 's happened . |
| 6 | I do not speak for the Philippine health movement , rather these are my attempts to understand how both small-scale local initiatives and a national effort can alter the historical process which to date has left the majority of the 60 million Filipino people living in dire poverty in a land of plenty . |
| 7 | There 's nothing more soul- destroying ( and I speak as a seasoned dieter here ! ) than those inflexible diet regimes : no meals out , no dinner parties , no treats . |
| 8 | Ironic , then , is Wilekin 's immediate comment : ( " Indeed , lady , you speak as a gracious person " ) |
| 9 | I speak as an hon. Member who has served time on four such Bills during the four years that I have been in the House — the City of London ( Various Powers ) Bill , the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill , and the London Underground Bills Nos. 1 and 2 . |
| 10 | ‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ And , ’ continued the badger ceremoniously , ‘ I am sure I speak for the entire population in wishing you all the very best in driving away this menace in our midst . |
| 12 | I think I speak for the vast majority of the environmental health committee when I say that the abatement and noise pollution has been one of our ongoing major concerns in things for the last twelve months . |
| 13 | I speak for the first time . |
| 14 | By this I mean that those who identify themselves with the cause of animal welfare are increasingly those who speak for the commercial animal agriculture community , the bio-medical community , the hunting and trapping communities , and so on . |
| 15 | A short film would be shown of a man who 'd lost his memory through a cerebral stroke at the age of twenty-three , and was learning to programme his life so he could live alone , and then I would speak about the day-to-day struggle of living with someone who is in no-man 's world without reference and without time . |
| 16 | I am sure that Opposition Members will be delighted to hear me speak about the free market because they were in some doubt about whether it would be possible for Conservative Members to mention that . |
| 17 | ‘ You did not speak about the Royal Academy if you pretended to be interested in modern art , ’ said one young critic . |
| 18 | What became known as the Naythuyein Mass Meeting heard Aung San speak about the Burmese contribution to the Allied cause ; he saw Labour 's victory as a sign that imperialism was on the way out and he affirmed that ‘ 99 per cent of the PBF would be unwilling to serve in the fighting forces of a country that was not free ’ . |
| 19 | The resuscitated patients often speak of a great sense of disappointment and loss on waking . |
| 20 | When we speak of a delinquent subculture , we speak of a way of life that has somehow become traditional among certain groups in American society . |
| 21 | The mystics speak of a rare wine pressed in a high valley of the Pamirs of the mind whose property is not to charm the palate but the soul ; a wine that , like the opium of De Quincey , can overturn the sentences of unjust judges . |
| 22 | Others speak of a Spanish grandee who offered up the corpse of his lovely young wife in this way , hoping in his grief that her elements might be dispersed about the air . |
| 23 | A few writers still speak of a permanent discontinuity between the biological sciences and the social sciences , grounded in epistemology ( Eccles , 1980 ) or at least forced by a fundamental difference in goals ( Hampshire , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | In many cases we speak of a given condition as cause and it is the one action or piece of behaviour involved , something to which responsibility attaches . |
| 25 | In Wall Street journals now speak of an irreversible decline of the middleman — the suave dealmaker who carves a chunk out of the real workers ' profits by flitting with bright notions from door to door . |
| 26 | Moreover , when we speak of the perceived function of reformed monasteries , we do not mean primarily their economic functions as efficient optimizers of agrarian wealth , or even their cultivation of knowledge and production of books . |
| 27 | Far from explaining how judgement arises out of experience , the holder of the impression theory of perception makes the connection inexplicable , whether we speak of the visual experience of a globe , a duck-rabbit , or a Constable painting of a cornfield . |
| 28 | There are innumerable passages in both the Jewish and Christian scriptures which speak of the ineffable greatness and holiness of God . |
| 29 | When we speak of the British constitution that is the normal , if not the only possible meaning the word has . |
| 30 | Heclo and Wildavsky adopt an anthropological tone when they speak of the British policy-making system in Whitehall concerned with public expenditure as a ‘ village community with a variety of subtle norms about the type of behaviour which is acceptable and unacceptable , praiseworthy and condemnable . |