Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] speak " 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 | All this should speak well for your fluency with language and clarity of intellect . |
| 3 | Outside the town the country folk spoke mainly their native Gaelic and some of the very old could speak no English . |
| 4 | Some will speak of elementars , spiritual beings which invade the physical world from their normal residence in the astral plane . |
| 5 | Any plan for the future depended on the term of the girl 's life now ending , and neither could speak of that . |
| 6 | Right , going on the streets think it would , going to find that many people that , that could speak |
| 7 | Before either could speak , however , Elizabeth opened her eyes . |
| 8 | The taxi jerked away before either could speak again . |
| 9 | Before either could speak again , the door at the far end of the room opened and Ben 's mother entered , carrying a tray . |
| 10 | ‘ How many will speak English ? ’ |
| 11 | George I could speak no English and knew nothing of British monarchy and duties , so an inner council of ministers was formed under the leading politicians and , by 1720 , the ‘ cabinet government ’ was well established . |
| 12 | By 1279 one may speak of monastic foundations in England — nearly a thousand of them — as having reached saturation point . |
| 13 | The Kingman Report recommended that all children at the age of 16 should speak in Standard English , ‘ using their own accents ( provided that these accents do not impair comprehension by other speakers of English ) ’ ( chapter 5 , p. 52 ) . |
| 14 | One can speak loosely of a ‘ non-fullerene cluster ’ , but there is likely to be a variety of such clusters and the collapse size must depend on the chemical bonding in the cluster . |
| 15 | Similarly , the Evangelical can speak of an encounter with the words of the text of Scripture as though God has spoken directly to him . |
| 16 | Against the living death of modern material civilisation he spoke again and again , and even if these dead could speak , what he said is unanswerable . |