Example sentences of "speaking [prep] the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was speaking after the government funded Housing Corporation revealed plans to spend the money over the next 12 months on supporting schemes to build more than 2,000 homes . |
| 2 | Erm those sites are subject to other lo locational restrictions and other environmental restrictions and would n't in our view be appropriate for the sort of development that he 's looking for erm a location in in our context anyway generally speaking along the A one corridor . |
| 3 | Speaking to the South African Institute of International Affairs , the baroness applauded efforts by the South African police to create a community police division . |
| 4 | Speaking at the Golf International 2000 seminar at Sandown Exhibition Centre , he claimed designing and building anything other than these types of facilities would not help Britain 's congested courses . |
| 5 | Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland , on Feb. 2 , Mandela said that the private sector would play a central and critical role in generating wealth in South Africa ; he envisaged a mixed economy with a public sector " perhaps no different from such countries as Germany , France and Italy " . |
| 6 | After speaking at the UN General Assembly on June 22 , he met President George Bush in Washington on June 25 . |