Example sentences of "he speak of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what Barthes means when he speaks of literature representing the sovereignty of language . |
| 2 | In 999 he speaks of delay in getting the fleet into action , and suggests that delay occurred on other occasions , but without explaining why . |
| 3 | It is , in particulars the unnerving intellectuality of the life around him that Hölderlin attacks , the overvaluation of philosophizing and the promise of action that never comes , the substitution of books and words for deeds , the excessive introspection and lack of worldly competence ( the criticism has a special poignancy in that these are character traits he is intimately familiar with , which at times become part of his self-criticism ) When he speaks of Greece , it is not always clear whether he has in mind the fifth century or the timeless present in which Hyperion lives , but it is always Greece that provides the contrast . |
| 4 | He claims not to remember anything of his ‘ death ’ , but various events in the death story recur in his second life : he confuses the five moon-children he fathers with his real children , and he speaks of people as though they were cosmic bodies . |
| 5 | He speaks of Cheltenham as being ‘ a nasty , ill-looking place , half clown and half cockney ’ , and of being ‘ one street about a mile long ’ . |
| 6 | As we have seen , Gandhi recognizes that no single religion can embody the whole truth , and that all particular religions contain errors since they are human constructs or formulations , but does it follow necessarily that when he speaks of Religion underlying all human constructs , or at the heart of all religions , he is referring to an ‘ essence ’ of an ‘ entity ’ or a ‘ primordial form ’ of religion after the fashion of Schleiermacher ? |
| 7 | He speaks of predication as a limitation of truth . |
| 8 | We expect to find a guilty incident or relationship because he writes continually of guilt ; we expect to find sin because he speaks of atonement and expiation . |
| 9 | After a short discourse about women — the need for the dowry of five animals and three useful articles to be maintained , even for schoolgirls — he speaks of Claudia . |
| 10 | He spoke of intellect and said he thought that the mind must be coloured with inspiration . |
| 11 | He spoke of freedom of debate and " recognition of the right of the minority to a stand of their own " , but he explicitly ruled out factionalism , declaring that all decisions adopted by the majority must be binding on all . |
| 12 | In memorable phrases he spoke of things being ‘ changed utterly ’ as a ‘ terrible beauty ’ was born . |
| 13 | And he spoke of problems between landlords and tenants . |
| 14 | He spoke of experience as being the most important thing . |
| 15 | To the paper 's Eleanor Levy , he spoke of America . |
| 16 | ‘ He spoke of surveys on which he was engaged in Quebec , one of the areas where white asbestos is mined . |
| 17 | Socialist Euro MPs jeered and heckled him during his key speech to the European Parliament , in which he spoke of Britain 's ‘ triumphs ’ of the Edinburgh Summit . |
| 18 | Ever since the days when Lavoisier and then Davy had worked on gunpowder there had been close connections between science and defence ; but the quantity of hard science in these papers is small , as it is also in F. A. Abel 's on substitutes for gunpowder ( 17 May 1872 ) where he spoke of nitro-glycerine and dynamite and gun-cotton , and even in John Tyndall 's of 4 June 1875 on Whitworth 's rifled guns . |
| 19 | He spoke of troubadours and ancient lords and sang , unembarrassed and unaffected , snatches of song about lavender , about almond trees , about love , in incomprehensible Proven-am . |
| 20 | She had not listened when he spoke of Flint . |
| 21 | Later , in June 1984 , he spoke of Oscar Wilde and James Dean in a similar light : ‘ James Dean , even though he was making enormous strides forward with his craft , was still incredibly miserable and obviously doomed . |
| 22 | He spoke of men 's ‘ sexist ’ behaviour , but laid the responsibility for providing a remedy with women , who must exercise a ‘ civilising influence ’ on these infantile people . |
| 23 | Gazzer remembered the depths of Simon 's contempt and hatred when he spoke of Marie and he felt more and more certain , as he neared the Lock , that Simon would need hardly any excuse to harm her . |
| 24 | The book , which appeared first in 1936 , is the publication of Hubble 's ( eight ) Silliman Lectures in Yale University , along with a preface and introduction in which , incidentally , he explains why he spoke of nebulae rather than galaxies . |
| 25 | In his sermon on passion Sunday in 1687 he spoke of blasphemies , perfidy and superstition in such a way as to be understood to be referring , Evelyn relates , ‘ to the Romish priests and the new religion of the Council of Trent ’ . |
| 26 | The primitive ceremony which came soonest to Eliot 's mind , whether in his ‘ Beating of a Drum ’ or in 1926 when he spoke of savages who ‘ believe that the ritual is performed in order to induce a fall of rain' , was rain-making , probably because he had read about it for his 1913 seminar paper . |
| 27 | He spoke of ribs and cabbage . |
| 28 | On and on he spoke of food . |
| 29 | His tone as matter of fact as if he spoke of arrangements for a day 's shooting . |
| 30 | At times she believed she could make her hard man into a piece of putty , but not when he spoke of duty . |