Example sentences of "[verb] be talk of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he has been talking of being ‘ more in control ’ . |
| 2 | The Prince of Wales has been talking of his love for his country home at Highgrove in Gloucestershire . |
| 3 | Mother Teresa of Calcutta has been talking of her concern for the victims of Aids . |
| 4 | At the centre , community care has been talked of for thirty years and in few areas can the gap between political rhetoric and policy on the one hand , or between policy and reality in the field on the other hand , have been so great . |
| 5 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
| 6 | It is hardly surprising , therefore , that deposition should be mooted again — it had been talked of in the Gaveston crisis . |
| 7 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 8 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been talking of the mistress , and her strange behaviour , shepherd , ’ said the maltster . |
| 10 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 11 | Mama 's been talking of sugar beet . ’ |