Example sentences of "[that] [subord] [pers pn] speak [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that if we speak of the ‘ rhythm guitarist ’ as such , the image of a second-rate underdog player springs instantly into view , playing a tiresome , subordinate role to a far more experienced ( and inexcusably vain ) lead player . |
| 2 | The first thing to remember is that if we speak in terms of ‘ I ’ and ‘ me ’ , rather than ‘ you ’ , we run less danger of erecting barriers on the other side . |
| 3 | He did n't tell anyone about her visits ; he had a kind of superstitious fear that if he spoke of her , she 'd vanish like the fairy folk . |
| 4 | It should also be said that while he speaks of ‘ absolute dependence ’ , he does not mean to imply that we have no personal freedom or responsibility , that we are mere puppets in the hands of omnipotence . |
| 5 | The argument for this might be based on the claim that when we speak to someone we are using a ‘ code ’ , and the most efficient codes do not use unnecessary symbols . |
| 6 | Consider , he says , that when we speak of the existence of a sensible thing we mean that we are perceiving it by various of our senses , or could perceive it were we suitably placed . |
| 7 | The highest nobility were only very few in numbers , so that when we speak of their hold upon military commands we must , consciously or not , include those who had inherited relatively low noble rank or who had only risen that far through their own efforts . |
| 8 | He had grown accustomed , even in the work of supposedly enlightened anthropologists , to terms such as ‘ savage ’ , ‘ lower races ’ , and ‘ inferior races ’ , so that when he speaks of ‘ inequality ’ , he may well be thinking of a vertical model , though he may mean simply ‘ difference ’ when he writes that |
| 9 | 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 ? |