Example sentences of "when [noun] speak of " in BNC.

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1 When economists speak of ‘ Positive economics ’ they mean a predictive science , governed solely by the test of experience .
2 When people speak of doubt , sooner or later medical images pop up as doubt becomes seen as a sickness of faith .
3 When people speak of ‘ science ’ , they usually mean the sciences of nature , especially physics , chemistry , and biology , in line of descent from the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries .
4 When people speak of conceptual clustering , they often mean more than just a clustering process .
5 But we must go further and when men speak of dark skies , we must think of our own bright interior skies .
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