Example sentences of "to speak [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Jennens was the first to speak about the financial aspects of the project . |
| 2 | These poets are trying to speak for the lost generations , condemned forever to inarticulacy ; and to speak aloud about simple things that they had been forbidden even to think about . |
| 3 | Lawton , for example , claimed to speak for the Whiggish Jacobites , the Church of England Jacobites , and the Roman Catholics . |
| 4 | Mary Alston , arguing the case for a pay rise , pointed out in a speech as early as 1922 that It may be that prior to 1914 , women were employed in book composing only , but we must not forget the introduction of monotypes diverted hand labour to other channels correcting , making up and so forth , and in every large office today , not to speak of the small ones , we find women compositors setting , making up , doing author 's corrections and in some offices making ready for machine . |
| 5 | A few years after Lanfranc 's arrival , Eadmer described the English monks as living the lives of earls rather than monks , ‘ in all worldly glory , with gold and silver , with changes of fine clothes and delicate food , not to speak of the various kinds of musical instruments in which they delighted , and the horses , dogs and hawks with which they sometimes took exercise ’ . |
| 6 | As time went on , the threat of ferocious barbarians seemed to become more and more intense : the Vikings , the Muslims in the Mediterranean , the Hungarians , not to speak of the internal disorders arising from the division of Charlemagne 's empire . |
| 7 | The observations which we shall make can be directly linked to an account of the overall possibilities of English grammatical structure ; by this we do not mean to speak of the paradigmatic relationships between different clauses , but of the syntagmatic relations which construct the clause itself . |
| 8 | Until the eighteenth century , religion was the only force to speak to the central concerns of human beings , the only explanation for human suffering which was available . |
| 9 | National Park rangers eventually managed to speak to the two men but were unable to see them for clouds of steam . |
| 10 | Pope Paul was to speak to the United Nations on 4 October and this document was one he very much needed approved , at least in principle , before then . |
| 11 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |