Example sentences of "to talk [prep] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last terms of the diploma course students often find tutorials , where they are given opportunity to talk about work in progress , enormously valuable . |
| 2 | Let us digress slightly to talk about efficiency in agriculture , comparing fairly modern production of wheat , which is a very efficient crop in the USA , with production of wheat from bullock-power in India . |
| 3 | He was a leading figure in social evolution — his second book , on the origin of civilisation as shown by the mental and social condition of savages , was published in 1870 , the year before The Descent of Man by his dear friend Charles Darwin — but he knew better than to talk of evolution in Parliament . |
| 4 | In one sense it is paradoxical to talk of fluidity in tenth- or eleventh-century society . |
| 5 | When he tried to talk to Bella in bed at night , there were passing moments of ease and sweetness that made it seem almost possible to recover what had been lost . |