Example sentences of "[pron] speak of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( When I speak of the value of the whole , I mean what Moore calls its value on the whole , that is the values of its parts plus its value as a whole . ) |
| 2 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 3 | For when I speak of the community being faithful to its own principles I do not mean its conventional or popular morality , the beliefs and convictions of most citizens . |
| 4 | ‘ My word , what interest I kindled when I spoke of the hospital at Christmas . |
| 5 | I spoke of the matter to Sir Thomas Vaughan , he being of like age to my lord and a close friend from boyhood , ’ Elizabeth Mowbray told her . |
| 6 | I spoke of the reality of your position , and I would like now to expand on that reality . ’ |
| 7 | Others have done so , in writing , but not I. I spoke of the ‘ regrettable similarity ’ between a 1989 work by Parmiggiani and Kosuth 's installation at the 1992 Documenta ( Il Giornale dell' Arte No. 103 , September 1992 , pp. 1,8 ) . |
| 8 | I spoke of the need to organize , that an individual alone can not change things . |
| 9 | I wish that the Minister would respond to a point that I made in a debate last week when I spoke of the tragedy that the employment advisory service — available to prisoners both before and after their release — had been withdrawn by the Government . |
| 10 | But even the most rudimentary reading of his many surviving letters will reveal passages which speak of the pleasures of reading with or to Mrs Moore . |
| 11 | There are innumerable passages in both the Jewish and Christian scriptures which speak of the ineffable greatness and holiness of God . |
| 12 | There is a commonplace error which speaks of the ‘ contradictions ’ in society . |
| 13 | Alongside this emphasis of the Kingdom as a present reality to be experienced and enjoyed , there is an equally strong strand of teaching which speaks of the Kingdom as in the future and , therefore , to be anticipated and longed for . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Though there were huge stones involved , they knitted into a whole which spoke of the possibility of life ; intimate , ordinary life . |
| 16 | He insisted that a genuine religion , if such there be , must rest on a supernatural revelation coming from beyond history ; and he denounced the ‘ historicising ’ of Christianity , by which the original message of Christ and the apostles , a message which spoke of the wholly supernatural kingdom of God , had been betrayed by the transformation of Christianity itself into a social , cultural , and political movement within history — a movement which the advanced theologians and Christian apologists of the nineteenth century had then , with complete consistency , attempted to interpret and justify in purely historical and psychological terms . |
| 17 | The draft contained a preamble put forward by Luxembourg during its presidency in the first half of 1991 [ see pp. 38295-97 ] , which spoke of the EC 's " federal " goal . |
| 18 | When , on 19 March 1856 , the tsar issued a manifesto which spoke of the blessings which were to descend upon the empire as a result of the peace treaty , he envisaged " equal justice and equal protection for everyone , so that each can enjoy in peace the fruits of his own righteous labours " . |
| 19 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 20 | Remember George Seawright when you speak of the brave , |
| 21 | Remember George Seawright when you speak of the brave , |
| 22 | " You speak of the OTC market as if it does n't exist . |
| 23 | Gav , you speak of the Batts situation as if it were work : - ) |
| 24 | Including the colours , or are you speaking of the drawing ? |
| 25 | This belief in the interrelationship of life in all its forms may find corroboration from St. Paul who speaks of the whole creation groaning in pain and awaiting deliverance from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God . |
| 26 | She speaks of the change that took place in Eva 's life at her conversion . |
| 27 | This terminology dates back to St Paul who spoke of the church in Corinth , in Thessalonika , etc . |
| 28 | But several of his supporters agreed with Mr John Patten , the former Home Affairs Minister , who spoke of the ‘ wicked , old-fashioned racism ’ that had led to the overturning of the 4,896 Tory majority and brought shame to the spa town . |
| 29 | The service was conducted by the vicar and Chapman 's friend , the Reverend Norman Boyd , who spoke of the sportsmanship of this ‘ outstanding personality of the football world ’ . |
| 30 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |