Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] talk about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House will understand that , although we prefer these matters to be resolved by competitive tendering , in this case we are effectively talking about a single supplier , so it is vital to get the contract right . |
| 2 | With regard to the perceived needs of the post-1992 Europe , free movement of labour and equality of opportunity are much talked about concepts . |
| 3 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 4 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 5 | So far , though , we are only talking about arranging a meaningful funeral service . |
| 6 | ‘ The government is very cautious — they say they are only talking about domestic accounting principles — but this is a big step forward . ’ |
| 7 | I mean we are only talking about a few yards difference . |
| 8 | If he does not , analysts are already talking about recommending the shares on bid hopes . |
| 9 | Erm obviously if you did n't , then the widower 's pension will be quite a bit less cos we 're only talking about from nineteen eighty eight . |
| 10 | Oh yeah I mean we 're only talking about a couple of initially er large erm thirty second spots if you like . |
| 11 | I mean we 're only talking about half an hour or so er at some time around about eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning . |
| 12 | I think you 're only talking about redundancies if we ca n't erm take some short term work from elsewhere , er as opposed to , I mean , I 'm suggesting at the moment we take stock a longer time |
| 13 | I mean the r the risk of progression is i i I would think is minuscule erm and erm you 're only talking about changes in size not risk of of erm muscle invasion , and I think therefore |
| 14 | you 're only talking about a co you know , a few hundred quid for that . |
| 15 | I mean , you look at it , if everybody was seated in this area that could be seated I mean , you 're only talking about bloody |
| 16 | Like , you 're only talking about getting four walls for twenty thousand are n't you ? |
| 17 | So we 're only talking about half a dozen |
| 18 | I mean we , we 're only talking about , you know , er an area very close to er whatever it 's called |
| 19 | probably not , we 're only talking about one night . |
| 20 | Well , you 're basically talking about power relationships and that goes into almost every aspect of one 's life and one 's relationship , and I suppose you 're asking men to look at themselves differently too . |
| 21 | You 've hardly got your breath back , and we 're already talking about ‘ next time ’ ? |
| 22 | and it will take some of those runners … a few days … a few weeks to recover but believe it or not they 're already talking about and planning next year 's race |
| 23 | A mosquito probably registers about ten or twenty decibels , and this could be very annoying if you were trying to sleep and one was buzzing around you , but in our trade we 're normally talking about a level of perhaps sixty or seventy decibels which is tolerable and the sort of noise perhaps we 're making at the moment . |
| 24 | You know that 's all now going if you 're just talking about the flats area . |
| 25 | we 're just talking about this velocity stuff , |
| 26 | If we 're just talking about the niceties of the way these things are laid out , previous set of procedures say things like page one-o-two , page one-o-three etc , and I think that is probably good practice if you can look at a page number and so you know exactly how many pages to expect so , we can probably do that when we re-issue these procedures as well . |
| 27 | What you 're just talking about is different patterns of its distribution that may occur . |
| 28 | Well , in the beginning , erm , this is an interview before they start rehearsing one evening , or like , what they each other play , and they 're just talking about how they met and everything , cos they , the vocalist and the guitarist met in a chip shop , and knocked all the chips everywhere , and then he er , the guitarist talks about , erm , he met , I mean , he knows a drummer that 's free and it turns out that it 's the vo vocalist 's vocalist 's brother . |
| 29 | You 're just talking about as I 've said , ghetto creation . |
| 30 | no , we 're just talking about when I did last week remember when I went teaching last week and you went to Ian 's house did n't you ? |