Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] speak of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the only encouraging initiative that I can speak of for West Sussex is the establishment of the Rural Options Land Bank and er I 've undertaken to try and get some county commitment to this and that means some land . |
| 2 | When the subject of his father cropped up , which was not very often , Phil found that she could speak of him with true affection , keeping alive for the little boy his early memories of a loving father . |
| 3 | Secondly , it must be said that , from the very start , Christians strained ordinary human language in order to speak of the significance of Christ ; the term Christ was an inclusive term , such that one could speak of persons as being ‘ in Christ ’ . |
| 4 | We were representatives of so many branches of sciences that we used to speak of ourselves , in a jocular way , as a British Association , in miniature , for the amusements of science . |
| 5 | But , even assuming , first , that the oppression has indeed been lifted , second , that we can speak of , and know , a time when that desire was ever free , and third , that we can speak meaningfully of a ‘ natural ’ or a ‘ liberated ’ desire ( and my argument questions all three assumptions ) , even assuming all this , liberated desire would still always be different from its pre-oppression counterpart . |
| 6 | It is in this sense that we can speak of Prussian hegemony : her economic strength , her size population and political weight inevitably resulted in putting a Prussian stamp on the new Germany . |
| 7 | Does this increase in variation mean that we can speak of a specifically ‘ local ’ politics , and if so is this based around local issues and is it generated through local processes ? |
| 8 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 9 | It is in this sense that we can speak of students forming their own ideas . |
| 10 | He had talked of a new prisoner — too much to hope that he would speak of anything other than the camp — a prisoner who was an Englishman . |