Example sentences of "that we [modal v] [adv] speak [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is even arguable that we should just speak of a clannish ‘ Heraklid aristocracy ’ and not subdivide further . |
| 3 | If I am right about what the fluke genes are doing , it follows that we can legitimately speak of fluke genes as influencing snail bodies , in just the same sense as snail genes influence snail bodies . |
| 4 | Things like pencils and tables and houses and electronic calculators , as well as living beings , are " temporal " entities in the sense that we can meaningfully speak of their life-span , their " coming into being " and " going out of existence " or " ceasing to be " . |
| 5 | If it is meaningful to say " the same colour " , then it is so only on condition that we can meaningfully speak of different specimens of the colour in question , or , at the very least , of different occasions on which this colour is talked about , or referred to as the " same " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |