Example sentences of "[pers pn] can speak of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( As I can speak of red without calling it the colour of blood . ) |
| 2 | ( As I can speak of red without calling it the colour of blood . ) ’ |
| 3 | " I can speak of it now , since our dear companion is in the infirmary . |
| 4 | ‘ Now I can speak of Callanish , ’ Minch continued more slowly , ‘ where my ancestors flew and where once so long ago I cast my shadow down . ’ |
| 5 | Therefore , I can speak of the experience when four hon. Members sit in quasi-judicial godliness hearing the arguments for and against . |
| 6 | Well the only encouraging initiative that I can speak of for West Sussex is the establishment of the Rural Options Land Bank and er I 've undertaken to try and get some county commitment to this and that means some land . |
| 7 | At the same time , the editor fails to remark that when dealing with military servomechanisms , you can speak of the future position of the gun and compare that with ‘ future ’ human purposes . |
| 8 | But , even assuming , first , that the oppression has indeed been lifted , second , that we can speak of , and know , a time when that desire was ever free , and third , that we can speak meaningfully of a ‘ natural ’ or a ‘ liberated ’ desire ( and my argument questions all three assumptions ) , even assuming all this , liberated desire would still always be different from its pre-oppression counterpart . |
| 9 | It is in this sense that we can speak of Prussian hegemony : her economic strength , her size population and political weight inevitably resulted in putting a Prussian stamp on the new Germany . |
| 10 | Does this increase in variation mean that we can speak of a specifically ‘ local ’ politics , and if so is this based around local issues and is it generated through local processes ? |
| 11 | So with one of the four functions normally predominant over the other three we can speak of a sensate , intuitive , thinking or feeling type of person , who can be either extroverted or introverted . |
| 12 | Second , a labour market can be defined by skill or occupation : we can speak of the market for economics lecturers or the market for car workers . |
| 13 | That said , there is a serious question about how far we can speak of ‘ women 's languages ’ or ‘ genderlects ’ in the same way we talk of ‘ Lancashire dialect ’ or ‘ Jamaican creole ’ . |
| 14 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 15 | In the community as a whole , therefore , we can speak of alternation between front-raised values and lowered ( mainly backed ) values , according to which of the rules is applied . |
| 16 | Given any symbol , A , we can speak of all the sentences generated from A by the grammar . |
| 17 | If , as is sometimes done , things are assimilated to events , we can speak of particulars as events , and of the latter as being " temporal " in the sense that every event exhibits a pattern of change in some direction , and can be said to occur simultaneously with , or before , or after , some other event . |
| 18 | It is in this sense that we can speak of students forming their own ideas . |
| 19 | We can speak of an orbital as being full if it contains two electrons , half-filled if it has a single electron , or empty . |
| 20 | Since most of the parameters here will normally be constant during a given experiment we can speak of the blackout level for a given light intensity . |
| 21 | Again , now that he is a man he is expected to observe those admittedly very minimal standards of decency which apply to excretion ( for instance , not urinating on someone 's feet when you are talking to them ) , and so to this very limited extent we can speak of initiation being like toilet-training . |
| 22 | I wonder whether we can speak of the smoothness of having little to do … the bobbliness of being entertained … the thickness of being warm … the knittedness of being kinaesthetically involved … |