Example sentences of "speak [adv] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is an isolated figure in the Government because he is the first Minister whom I have heard speak highly of the work of the Cambridge school . |
| 2 | Despite initial fears , agencies now speak highly of the effectiveness of the Support Force had in pushing forward the reforms . |
| 3 | Through all the drudgery ( as it may seem ) , cricketers should enjoy the fruits of what they do and achieve , but they should also remember to make friends and speak fondly of the game , and they will then want for nothing once their playing days are over . |
| 4 | While Isaac is still unborn , the promises speak only of the future . |
| 5 | ‘ Later we shall speak further of the matter — at present there is much to be done . ’ |
| 6 | Some speak resentfully of a takeover by the Wessis , with themselves marked out for the role of second-class citizens . |
| 7 | Ancient writers speak often of a wall-painter , Polygnotos of Thasos ( the greatest member of a painter-family ) and his colleague Mikon of Athens . |
| 8 | We speak here of a man who has just completed a season in which he won four USPGA Tour events and more than $1,000,000 to finish second on the money list behind Greg Norman . |
| 9 | Alas , however , we speak here of a democracy of those with the least sense of urgency to correct what is wrong , the best insulation through short-run comfort from what could go wrong — a democracy run by and for the contented majority , in which those who do not share in its benefits do not participate . |
| 10 | They speak disparagingly of the Rowdies , yet many of them were once Rowdies themselves . |
| 11 | We speak casually of the interests or goals of the working class , for example . |
| 12 | Yeah , you see , now so much got in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us , , speak ill of the rest of us Ha I 've just finished reading the er , whole text of Rudyard Kipling 's . |
| 13 | It is also subject to all kinds of criticism ; not just listeners to Radio Four , but the employers of graduates speak disapprovingly of the way the English language is spoken . |
| 14 | Union officials speak scornfully of the Tribune Company 's assumption that tactics which worked in Chicago would succeed in New York . |
| 15 | I mean again you know , this is speaking personally of the trade , |
| 16 | I 'm speaking only of the United States , here , where there was a huge low in music . |
| 17 | Mythological or not , it has to be emphasised that he was speaking here of a group of poets — Ellenborgen , Hine , Mandel , Purdy , Macpherson , Layton and Cohen — not just Leonard himself . |
| 18 | I 'm speaking here of the period of conventional warfare by the way , this is not the case with nuclear war as I shall show in a later lecture . |
| 19 | Speaking surely of the jewels . |
| 20 | Recalling St Magnus Martyr and speaking again of the need to preserve the fabric of the church , Eliot declared he would cease to appeal in the name of Christopher Wren and his school , and appeal instead ‘ in the name of Laud and the beauty of holiness ’ . |
| 21 | And speaking again of the survivors , not to mention our three other visitors , we 'll have to find sleeping accommodation for them . |
| 22 | In His account of what happened to the rich man and Lazarus after they died ( Luke 16 verses 19/31 ) Jesus quoted the words spoken to the rich man in hell , by Abraham and in verses 29 and 31 we see Abraham referring to Moses and The Prophets and clearly he is speaking specifically of the scriptures attributed to them . |
| 23 | Collor has spoken favourably of the idea of an international carbon tax . |
| 24 | Yet Fernand had spoken openly of the war and of his brother 's death without showing a trace of rancour or a desire for revenge . |
| 25 | He had then spoken frankly of the need to restore European confidence in the United States . |
| 26 | Lord Lovat attempted , without success , to replace one of his clansmen in his office of land waiter after he had been removed by the commissioners , without investigation , following a complaint that he had spoken disrespectfully of a supervisor . |
| 27 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 28 | Mr Riley speaks highly of the BICC management team and the relationship between the company in gritty Prescott and the university on a rural hillside . |
| 29 | Mr Riley speaks highly of the BICC management team and the relationship between the company in gritty Prescott and the university on a rural hillside . |
| 30 | ‘ Unemployment is something that personally concerns me because I have been at the edge of unemployment all my life , ’ added the 42-year-old who speaks highly of the quality of the environment on Teesside , a much richer and more vibrant and pleasant place in which to live than he had imagined . |