Example sentences of "speak of in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the kingdom of God spoken of in the New Testament simply ‘ the moral organisation of the human race ’ , or does that conception owe more than the Liberals themselves realised to their own enlightened and optimistic view of the development of Protestant culture in their own day ? |
| 2 | Its name is derived from a remarkable Chase , the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem , which monuments do now exist as I have there described them . |
| 3 | Her concerns were here , in front of her , concerns that were domestic and intimate and not to be spoken of in the same breath as supposedly greater events . |
| 4 | The New Testament , despite its talk of God condemning the wicked to an eternity of weeping and gnashing of teeth in the fires of hell ( a level of violence , as one commentator has put it , surpassing anything spoken of in the Old Testament ) , has yet more challenges to offer , and not just in the Passion narratives . |
| 5 | With seamers John Maguire and Craig Wilkinson following Simpson out of Grace Road , Alan Mullally is the only Australian left on the staff , and Mr Turner revealed : ‘ there is now a strong hope that his fitness problems can be spoken of in the past tense . |
| 6 | Outside Senegal and the Ivory Coast there was very little press to speak of in the pre-independence period : illiteracy was even higher than in the British territories , and the small , educated élite could not easily sustain newspapers . |