Example sentences of "spoke of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the same , she had experienced an uneasy moment when he spoke of the unnamed traitor who had brought about his brother 's death . |
| 2 | Burton never — to my knowledge — spoke of the early mass of films he had seen with any of that significant affection other actors give to their earliest influences . |
| 3 | Again , the composer spoke of the Romanian voice in her music which came from a Jungian kind of collective unconsciousness . |
| 4 | ( It is difficult to tell how far theologians in the patristic period , when they spoke of the cosmic Christ or the doctrine of the trinity , believed themselves to be stretching language to its ultimate and speaking metaphorically . |
| 5 | Mr Cotgrave spoke of the increased demands placed on police officers . |
| 6 | During the ceremony Gen. Matos underlined the role of armed forces in upholding territorial integrity and national sovereignty , whilst Gen. Numa spoke of the armed forces as the foundation of an Angola based on " democracy , peace and social justice " . |
| 7 | In 1983 she spoke of the general election providing a ‘ choice ’ between two ways of life ; before the 1987 election she spoke of the election as the opportunity to ‘ kill off ’ left-wing socialism . |
| 8 | We also spoke of the encouraging future for South African cricket following recent changes in that long-isolated country , and of the good work being done by Ali Bacher and Steve Tshwete in uniting South African cricket at last , enabling former boycotters like myself to testify that the time had at last come to re-admit South African cricket to the international arena . |
| 9 | Back home this week , Mr Ivor Simon and Mr David Brown , both member of Teesside Yesteryear Motor Club , spoke of the six-day adventure which took them from Edinburgh to the Mediterranean coast . |
| 10 | In January 1875 Huxley spoke of the recent work on the ship and its relevance to geology , he was particularly interested in the way in which debris accumulates at the bottom of the sea because this would help in the interpretation of fossils . |
| 11 | Professor Rees spoke of the close relationship between academia and industry and stressed the need for this relationship to continue . |
| 12 | He spoke of the close links what had been forged through trade with Spain and Portugal , whose wines had been exchanged for skins , wool and fish . |
| 13 | Mrs. Wilson , on behalf of the district council , spoke of the tremendous working relationship between the parish and district council . |
| 14 | People spoke of the great times when he fought sea-battles all over the Sudreyar and further south , in England and Ireland and Wales , but he , Paul , had not been there and did n't remember them . |
| 15 | That evening Carter gave a warm toast to the Shah in which he spoke of the great importance of Iran 's relationship to the United States . |
| 16 | Christ spoke of the lasting treasure of heaven . |
| 17 | ’ But he never spoke of the pitiful way in which the soul bowed its head humbly and submissively before the Lad . |
| 18 | Feldstein told Holly at what time they went over to the Kitchen for the evening 's food and he spoke of the compulsory attendance afterwards at the Political Education Unit . |
| 19 | Yang spoke of the two countries entering " a new phase " in their relations . |
| 20 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you thought further on that we spoke of the other evening , Angelina ? ’ |
| 22 | As my darling new mother ( whom I loved ) moved radiantly about the room introducing Derek , who had just directed Equus at the Contact Theatre , to Bryan , who was a freelance journalist specializing in film , or Karen , who was a secretary at a literary agency , to Robert , who was a designer ; as she spoke of the new Dylan album and what Riverside Studios was doing , I saw she wanted to scour that suburban stigma right off her body . |
| 23 | This did not mean that they were wholly resistant to new ideas — that was clearly not the case because many spoke of the helpful advice and information given on the farming , nutrition , health and child care programmes — but they seemed to resist anything which either conflicted with views they already held or seemed to have no relevance to their experience . |
| 24 | Whether or not he fulfilled his part as judge and lawgiver , it is very hard to say : later generations spoke of the good laws of King Edward , but we can not tell if he deserved the compliment . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's sounding bad , ’ Private Charlie Weller spoke of the distant gun-fire , which did not really sound so very awful yet , but Weller was feeling a flicker of nervousness and wanted the relief of conversation . |
| 26 | Earlier we spoke of the selective interests that disciplines take in the world . |
| 27 | Speaking , again to NME 's Danny Kelly , Johnny Marr spoke of the snowballing effect on that tour : |
| 28 | In it Christian psychiatrists , care workers , medical experts , ministers and those who had come out of the occult scene , spoke of the appalling wake of damage left by the occult . |
| 29 | Andrée spoke of Saint-Simon and compared him to some English memoirists ; she spoke of the astonishing variety of the classical French novel , La Princesse des Clèves , Adolphe , Les Liaisons Dangereuses . |
| 30 | St Teresa of Avila also spoke of the obscure type of revelation , which both Julian and Muhammad described as ‘ spiritual visions ’ : |