Example sentences of "[vb mod] speak of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words Psalm 104:30 may speak of the energising rather than the creative work of the Spirit , and thus fall into line with the rest of the Old Testament teaching on ruach as ‘ breath ’ . |
| 2 | As we might speak of the culture of the Hebrides , or as W. H. Rivers wrote of the culture of Melanesia , so we speak of the culture of the European West to describe a set of outlooks , aims and ways of life , which has a history in the past of Europe and has spread to other parts of the world . |
| 3 | This was n't how Mrs Parvis used to speak of the enemy . |
| 4 | She would speak of the necessity of holding on to a framework of belief , a reasonable percentage of belie |
| 5 | Now one can speak of the development of autonomous ‘ life-orders ’ or ‘ value-spheres ’ , and in particular of the eighteenth-century autonomization of theoretical , ethical , and aesthetic spheres . |
| 6 | Therefore , I can speak of the experience when four hon. Members sit in quasi-judicial godliness hearing the arguments for and against . |
| 7 | I wonder whether we can speak of the smoothness of having little to do … the bobbliness of being entertained … the thickness of being warm … the knittedness of being kinaesthetically involved … |
| 8 | Second , a labour market can be defined by skill or occupation : we can speak of the market for economics lecturers or the market for car workers . |
| 9 | One ambiguity which runs through most definitions , as it does with the word ‘ course ’ , is whether one is referring to the total package of studies or only one element in it ; thus one can speak of the undergraduate curriculum or the history curriculum . |
| 10 | Since most of the parameters here will normally be constant during a given experiment we can speak of the blackout level for a given light intensity . |