Example sentences of "[vb past] speak of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Negotiations between Kerensky and the Rada were fruitless , and the Rada began to speak of the ‘ imperialist tendencies of the Russian bourgeoisie towards the Ukraine ’ . |
| 3 | In the 1950s and the 1960s many US firms grew so large so fast that Europeans began to speak of the ‘ American takeover ’ of their economies . |
| 4 | The Communist Party began to speak of the ILP membership as having forced the leaders into disaffiliation . |
| 5 | Moreover Mr Justice Jowitt had spoken of the temptation on the part of women to ‘ exaggerate or fabricate ’ when questions of sexual misconduct were involved . |
| 6 | Even in our short journey the taxi driver had spoken of the soukoyant , the witch who takes off her skin at night and flies about like a bat . |
| 7 | For Zarathustra had spoken of the good and evil spirits as twins and thereby implied that they had a common origin . |
| 8 | Sir Charles Coote , over 30 years earlier , had spoken of the large brick houses and well assorted shops , though he clearly regarded Richhill as being more important . |
| 9 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 10 | Later Chant and the Maestro had spoken of the event , and Chant had identified the creature . |
| 11 | Then he remembered how Bigwig , after his reconnaissance on the previous day , had spoken of the little white sticks in the grass . |
| 12 | At that time the guardian 's report had spoken of the intense conflict between the mother and the father and the consequent effect upon the children of that conflict . |
| 13 | The bible was reinterpreted ; even Christ , she argued , had spoken of the eventual disappearance of the male species . |
| 14 | Daniel 7:10 had spoken of the stream of fire issuing from the throne of God , and this too is picked up in one of the Qumran hymns which describe the molten river of judgment that will befall the world in the last day ( I QH 3:28ff ) Probably this idea was in John 's mind . |
| 15 | Dharsono was released from jail exactly a month after President Suharto had spoken of the need " to promote human rights " during his National Day speech . |
| 16 | Earlier , Do Muoi had spoken of the " great historic significance " of the visit . |
| 17 | During his election campaign Demirel had spoken of the need for a strong hand in dealing with Kurdish guerrillas . |
| 18 | Goumba , who questioned the government 's commitment to a national conference , also said that items had been deleted from the meeting 's agenda , dealing with the media and an electoral code , while President André Kolingba in his New Year address had spoken of the February conference as a " broad national debate " which " can not be a sovereign national conference " . |
| 19 | This was not new — the Dominican John Bromyard in his Summa Predicantium of the fourteenth century had spoken of the mutual hostility of northerners and southerners ( 230 , p.563 ) . |