Example sentences of "speak of a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resuscitated patients often speak of a great sense of disappointment and loss on waking . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One might almost speak of a complex symbiosis of different elements in society . |
| 8 | Did he speak of a recent row or of serious friction with anyone ? ’ |
| 9 | However , it is not until the Bolshevik Party , the first communist party to seize state power , ushers in the birth of the Soviet Union that we can realistically speak of a communist bloc . |
| 10 | Compulsory labour services in many Latin-American countries were not abolished , and indeed intensified , so that we can hardly speak of a general liquidation of serfdom there . |
| 11 | Finally , it seems most plausible to suppose that this enforcement operated within very strict limits , so that we should not speak of a general power of enforcement of modus for public purposes . |
| 12 | If one can speak of a vocal Achilles heel , then Miss Roocroft 's is still her cloudy diction . |
| 13 | Proceeding by trial and error ; thus one might speak of a heuristic approach to teaching grammar . |
| 14 | This sense of heavy requires fairly narrowly defined contextual conditions : one may speak of a heavy smoker , or a heavy drug-user , a car may be heavy on petrol , etc . |
| 15 | No wonder he qualified his optimism about Henley by speaking of a 300-strong membership because the Huntercombe club was struggling terribly and in fact went into liquidation in 1908 . |
| 16 | Under this head belongs every form of words by which , in speaking of a proposed measure of relief , an intimation is given that the time at which the proposal is made , whenever it may be , is too early for the purpose . |
| 17 | Hans Keller pointed out many years ago that , while the three preludial " interludes " are broadly speaking of a generic nature , setting the scene and mood for when the curtain rises , the three mid-act interludes have more specifically psychological connotations , telling us something about the state of the dramatic action and particularly about Grimes himself . |
| 18 | In her last letter , Aahmes had spoken of a new marriage . |
| 19 | She had spoken of a rich businessman in London and a gentleman farmer in Sussex , both of whom were madly in love with her . |
| 20 | Years earlier he had resided briefly at a clinic with Vivien , where Robert Sencourt claimed to have first met them both : and earlier still he had spoken of a mental condition of ‘ long-standing ’ . |
| 21 | Mr John Moore , then Social Security Secretary , had spoken of a young woman in his constituency who obtained special benefit and a council flat by becoming pregnant . |
| 22 | Some authors writing in this vein have spoken of a fundamental change in international politics resulting from the rise of these ‘ new forces in world politics ’ . |
| 23 | Others seek to worship through readily understandable services and music which speaks of a personal relationship to God in Christ , and the dynamic working of the Holy Spirit . |
| 24 | The Water Act , 1973 , speaks of a national policy for water , ‘ the restoration and maintenance of the wholesomeness of rivers ’ , and ‘ the enhancement and preservation of amenity ’ ( s.1 ) . |
| 25 | In West Germany , every residential facility has to have a residents ' committee by law — this may not work in every case , but it speaks of a different attitude to the residents themselves . |
| 26 | And in fact , under the name of ‘ Therapeutae ’ , Philo speaks of a Judiac sect or enclave whose attitudes and practices are identical with those of the Essenes or Zadokites in the Holy Land — identical , in other words , with those of Jesus 's subsequent following . |
| 27 | Modernism seldom speaks of a shared experience . |
| 28 | Erm looking now at page three hundred and fifty seven er paragraph seven three two oh seven three one and seven three two , page three hundred and fifty seven where the report makes the point that er when legal proceedings are entered into they tend to create further barriers and make it m less and less likely that th there can be conciliation between estranged partners erm and paragraph seven three two points out a growing need fo or speaks of a growing need for conciliation . |
| 29 | The very notion of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire speaks of a Northern conviction that the North is where class is , the real working class . |
| 30 | He spoke of a well-off socialist he knew at college ; what irked him was not the socialist views , some of which he agreed with , but the fact that here was a wealthy socialist telling working people what they should think . |