Example sentences of "speak [prep] the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no powerful pressure groups to speak for them , for the same reason that no pressure groups speak for the needs of children with special needs already in ordinary schools . |
| 2 | While she awaits her birth into her own voice , she can only speak through the voices of others , but this ‘ speaking through ’ also constitutes her struggle to get out . |
| 3 | Henry of Huntingdon had in his youth heard very old men speak of the slaughter of Danes in England during the massacre of St Brice 's Day in 1002 , but neither he , nor his contemporaries Florence and William of Malmesbury , relied solely on such evidence . |
| 4 | Moreover , before we speak of the transfer of powers , we should remember that these men were not nineteenth-century constitutional lawyers , any more than they were eleventh-century papal reformers . |
| 5 | Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels , as I often do , Harry still goes and does whatever he wants . |
| 6 | I do not share the view that theory and practice in education are opposites — the ideal situation is one in which good practice informs theory and good theory provides new insights into practice — but I certainly think that the ability of academic writers to communicate clearly , in ways that speak to the experience of practitioners , is vital . |
| 7 | ‘ But I was speaking about the price of vegetables , ’ said Anwar . |
| 8 | In speaking of the works of others I referred to that disposition to be dissatisfied which the public have sometimes with and often without reason evinced . |
| 9 | This conflict was uncharacteristic both because judges usually avoided speaking against the Government on matters of party policy and because judges usually worked behind the scenes to advance their own causes or to influence legal reforms . |
| 10 | Although this place has heard tales of much horror and beastliness over the many generations that hon. Members have spoken about the plight of victims throughout the history of this place , I suggest that the plight of the people whose human rights we will discuss this morning transcends almost every other horror that we have heard here . |
| 11 | Nor can they be found to be in contempt of court in relation to words spoken in the course of proceedings in Parliament . |
| 12 | But it is a mistake to think that Mr Saddiqi speaks for the majority of Muslims . |
| 13 | It speaks of the separation of races , and of a world which mixes them up . |
| 14 | Unless I have missed it earlier in this debate , I think there may be a point of clarification which may need to be made er with the result of yesterday 's decision , and that is that section two , which we 're now discussing , speaks of the position of parents who are not communicant members . |
| 15 | A notable example of this is the decree of the Second Vatican Council ‘ Gaudium et Spes ’ which speaks of the dignity of persons , men and women alike . |
| 16 | despite its protestations , that it speaks in the name of individuals by shredding employment protection and undermining collectivism . |
| 17 | We reproduced articles on Women 's Tapeover which spoke about the lives of lesbians . |
| 18 | Lord Widgery spoke about the justifiability of decisions taken by army commanders and soldiers , about actions which , he concluded , did ‘ not require censure ’ , and in using such language caused dispute and argument about the nature of his findings . |
| 19 | One visionary speaker at the British Association ( science ) meeting in 1984 spoke of the likelihood of rats the size of wolves inheriting the Earth in 50 million years time , when Man — in all probability — is no longer on the scene . |
| 20 | Theophrastus spoke of the Jews as philosophers who had by now discarded human sacrifice and performed their holocausts while fasting and talking incessantly about God . |
| 21 | In particular , he spoke of the importance of counties . |
| 22 | She would look at him sideways , smile at unexpected moments , and while she was never coarse there was the vaguest suggestion of the gentlest possible obscenity as she spoke of the bodies of animals . |
| 23 | When they spoke of the marks of fingers , I remembered the murder of my brother and I felt a terrible fear . |
| 24 | I spoke in the church on Sundays , but Arthur Nicholls did the rest of my work . |
| 25 | It was in those far-off days as they strolled through the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , that people first began to speak of the death of images . |