Example sentences of "speak of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Waimea veterans speak of the outer reefs as the next frontier : the majestic ‘ cloud breaks ’ that erupt a mile and more from shore where the Aleutian juice is pure and unadulterated and waves even bigger than those at Waimea can , theoretically , be surfed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 5 | There are innumerable passages in both the Jewish and Christian scriptures which speak of the ineffable greatness and holiness of God . |
| 6 | If we speak of the stylistic values of a non-literary text , we are interested in the way in which linguistic choices are adapted to communicative function — to such functions as newspaper reporting , advertising , scientific exposition . |
| 7 | When we speak of the British constitution that is the normal , if not the only possible meaning the word has . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Matthew and Luke in their Gospels speak of the Holy Spirit for Christians only in the Mission Charge which anticipates their future role as ambassadors of Christ . |
| 10 | When we speak of the electronic office we are now referring to an administrative system based largely on computers , word processors and associated communication devices . |
| 11 | At the same time , the editor fails to remark that when dealing with military servomechanisms , you can speak of the future position of the gun and compare that with ‘ future ’ human purposes . |
| 12 | One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other . |
| 13 | ‘ Let's not speak of the other night , shall we ? ’ she said coolly . |
| 14 | Later , in City Life magazine , Morrissey would speak of the backstage situation . |
| 15 | Abraham de Wicquefort , when in 1681 he published the best-known and most widely read work on diplomacy produced anywhere in early modern Europe , could still speak of the formal witnessing of a royal oath to keep a treaty of peace or alliance as one of the obvious reasons for the sending of an extraordinary ambassador . |
| 16 | I shall speak of the organic unities which Moore dismisses as nonsensical as ‘ organic wholes ’ to distinguish them from ‘ organic unities ’ in Moore 's sense . |
| 17 | They did not simply speak of the human Jesus of Nazareth and of the relation of persons to him as a human . |
| 18 | As early as 4 January 1936 he was speaking of the political crisis in Spain , predicting a violent confrontation between Popular Front Republicanism and the fascism of Gil Robles . |
| 19 | On one level it is hard to see how we can avoid reproducing this contradictory space when speaking of the inner city as a place , a fusion of social problems . |
| 20 | Also , given what has been said , that a mental event is wholly within consciousness , it is also true that in speaking of the mental life of people , in a large sense of the term , we are speaking of more than mental events . |
| 21 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 22 | He was speaking of the unreal world in which some of his friends here seem to live . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In speaking of the literary text as a functional structure , the Prague School stressed its effect as a totality , through the interaction of all its constituent parts including the subject-matter . |
| 25 | Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " . |
| 26 | But biblical writers use similar phrases in contexts where it is clear they are not speaking of the whole world as we understand it ( Genesis 41:56–57 ; Acts 2:5 ) . |
| 27 | This was not new — the Dominican John Bromyard in his Summa Predicantium of the fourteenth century had spoken of the mutual hostility of northerners and southerners ( 230 , p.563 ) . |
| 28 | At that time the guardian 's report had spoken of the intense conflict between the mother and the father and the consequent effect upon the children of that conflict . |
| 29 | Sir Charles Coote , over 30 years earlier , had spoken of the large brick houses and well assorted shops , though he clearly regarded Richhill as being more important . |
| 30 | The bible was reinterpreted ; even Christ , she argued , had spoken of the eventual disappearance of the male species . |