Example sentences of "speak of the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry of Huntingdon had in his youth heard very old men speak of the slaughter of Danes in England during the massacre of St Brice 's Day in 1002 , but neither he , nor his contemporaries Florence and William of Malmesbury , relied solely on such evidence . |
| 2 | Moreover , before we speak of the transfer of powers , we should remember that these men were not nineteenth-century constitutional lawyers , any more than they were eleventh-century papal reformers . |
| 3 | In speaking of the works of others I referred to that disposition to be dissatisfied which the public have sometimes with and often without reason evinced . |
| 4 | It speaks of the separation of races , and of a world which mixes them up . |
| 5 | Unless I have missed it earlier in this debate , I think there may be a point of clarification which may need to be made er with the result of yesterday 's decision , and that is that section two , which we 're now discussing , speaks of the position of parents who are not communicant members . |
| 6 | A notable example of this is the decree of the Second Vatican Council ‘ Gaudium et Spes ’ which speaks of the dignity of persons , men and women alike . |
| 7 | One visionary speaker at the British Association ( science ) meeting in 1984 spoke of the likelihood of rats the size of wolves inheriting the Earth in 50 million years time , when Man — in all probability — is no longer on the scene . |
| 8 | In particular , he spoke of the importance of counties . |
| 9 | She would look at him sideways , smile at unexpected moments , and while she was never coarse there was the vaguest suggestion of the gentlest possible obscenity as she spoke of the bodies of animals . |
| 10 | When they spoke of the marks of fingers , I remembered the murder of my brother and I felt a terrible fear . |
| 11 | It was in those far-off days as they strolled through the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , that people first began to speak of the death of images . |