Example sentences of "[adj] speak of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tempting as it is , it is positively wrong to speak of the genes for the six enzymes of pathway 2 being selected ‘ as a group ’ . |
| 2 | In this case it is wrong to speak of the wording of the trust as being free ; the point is instead that it is possible to construe a trust in order to validate a disposition , for their existence or non-existence is not attested purely by the use or non-use of certain forms . |
| 3 | Others , however , think it proper to speak of the intention of Parliament , in the sense of ‘ the meaning which Parliament must have intended the words to convey . ’ |
| 4 | Willis presents evidence to show that his competence is cumulative and so ‘ makes it sensible to speak of the working class not as an abstract group of those who share similar interests but as an organic whole with real and used inner connections ’ ( Willis , 1976 ) . |
| 5 | The setting of particularly high standards for uniformity and internal consistency makes it impossible to speak of the existence of almost any ‘ ism ’ in policy . |
| 6 | For several weeks , Tobias Beventini had found it impossible to speak of the apprentice he had chosen to follow , to dissect , to guide , in a medical way , towards the real , adult world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This did not mean that they were wholly resistant to new ideas — that was clearly not the case because many spoke of the helpful advice and information given on the farming , nutrition , health and child care programmes — but they seemed to resist anything which either conflicted with views they already held or seemed to have no relevance to their experience . |
| 9 | The exiled Prime Minister and Crown Prince of Kuwait , Shaikh Saad al Abdullah as Salim as Sabah , in an address on Jan. 17 spoke of the " legitimate struggle to liberate our dear homeland from the evil Iraqi regime 's occupation " . |
| 10 | They all spoke of the importance of easy access to books . |
| 11 | A report by the TASS news agency on Dec. 11 spoke of the arrest of several senior Mongolian bank officials , including the president of Mongolbank and the director-general of the Mongolian Bank for Trade and Development . |
| 12 | Because , Nizan asserts , Friedmann is unable to perceive the necessity of the organic link between theory and practice , he is led not only to the purely academic conclusion that it is incorrect to speak of the " philosophy " of either Lenin or Stalin , but also , and more significantly , to an inability to perceive the fundamentally different objectives pursued by Lenin and Trotsky . |
| 13 | Before allowing her own words to express her story , it might be helpful to speak of the policy and practice of nearly all missionary societies fifty years ago . |
| 14 | At least certain of the theories of probability , notably the frequency theory , can not possibly allow it to be meaningful to speak of the probability of single events , and hence can not be used in analysis of particular causal beliefs , those which are most common . |
| 15 | The first speaks of the empty tomb or rising again after burial , of appearing to apostles , women disciples , and other witnesses . |
| 16 | It is first heard of about the year 1000 , and a charter of 1005 speaks of the ‘ haga ’ or enclosure which existed here . |
| 17 | If this view is right , it is misleading to speak of the empirical content of an individual statement — especially if it is a statement at all remote from the experiential periphery of the field . |
| 18 | It is odd to speak of the creation of a state as the ‘ pretext ’ for anything : the translator may possibly be responsible for the oddity here , as for the orotundity that precedes it . |
| 19 | One can not quite understand the process of informalisation in European countries if one does not take into account that here too one can observe upward movements of working-class traditions and downward movements of middle-class traditions of conduct , although it is not possible to speak of the emergence of a new more firmly established code of conduct . |
| 20 | Standing around the lobbies , bars and corridors of the Commons after Mr Major 's 1990 budget speech were plenty of Tories ready to speak of the new chancellor as a possible ‘ healing ’ prime minister . |
| 21 | The second challenge came in the 1950s , when it became fashionable to speak of the demise of the nation state as a result of the development of nuclear weapons . |