Example sentences of "[is] talk " in BNC.
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| 1 | On we walk , discussing hobbies , like two old geezers , and she tells e how nice it is to talk to me like this as sometimes she feels she has n't got to know me as well as she would have liked . |
| 2 | What I like best is to talk to fellow artists . |
| 3 | The first and most important thing is to talk to your doctor . |
| 4 | The next step is to talk to the player . |
| 5 | One of the most infuriating habits of the scientifically illiterate is to talk of the ‘ ice age ’ as if there had been only one . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
| 7 | To talk of the presentation appearance , on the other hand , is to talk of something that can , itself , properly be said to be large , round , blue , and so on . |
| 8 | Strictly speaking , the sensation itself is not located ; to talk of having a pain ‘ in one 's foot ’ is to talk elliptically . |
| 9 | But along with this goes the idea that to talk of ‘ the mind ’ is to talk of something actually in the head , or at any rate capable of making contact with the rest of the body via the brain . |
| 10 | Behind this question seems to be the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing — either some thing in the world , which the word stands for , or some thing in the mind of the person who utters the word and in the mind of the person who hears it . |
| 11 | But the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing does not seem to apply to the use we have been considering of the word ‘ here ’ . |
| 12 | The meeting sorry the meeting this evening is quite clearly is to talk about get your views on how best to plan the programmes for the facilities for the future . |
| 13 | The last thing that you want when you 're turkeying is to talk about gear . |
| 14 | But this is to talk of the nominal or official method of appointment . |
| 15 | The only way to find out this sort of information , short of using the photographer once , is to talk to other people who have used him or her . |
| 16 | It is more difficult to talk about the construction of ‘ physical science ’ than it is to talk about the construction of physics , because physical science is not recognized as a discipline in the way that physics is . |
| 17 | If social psychology were to become a historical discipline , then it would make as little sense to conceive of pure and applied historical social psychology , as it is to talk of pure and applied history . |
| 18 | Oh well the last thing anyone wants to do when they 're going on a retirement course is to talk about dying . |
| 19 | The best way to find all this out is to talk to a Guide from that unit . |
| 20 | ‘ My next move is to talk to Matthew 's woman friend — Florence Tremayne — is n't that her name ? |
| 21 | The other thing is to talk it over with your line manager , so that if you 've picked something up you want to implement yourself back at , in the workplace then |
| 22 | So my aim here is to talk about how we will address these needs which we see emerging er at an increasing pace through the nineties . |
| 23 | And what I want to do today is to talk about Totem and Taboo rather more as it looks back , than as it looks forward , and not just to , to the past in Freud , but to the past in other respects , as you will see . |
| 24 | And it seems to us I mean we 've talked about the different principles , the ne sensible next step is to talk about the criteria . |
| 25 | Well , apparently that used to be the official advice er and , and we were correct in that but the authorities have now changed their minds and they no longer want us to pour waste chemical down the drains and I gather that the official advice now is that surplus diluted chemical should be poured , and I 'm quoting here , on to more or less level and bare soil in the garden or on to level gravelled paths , avoid disposal in areas around ponds , erm water courses and so forth , dishes and , and what have you and as far as undiluted chemicals are concerned , that 's stuff still in the bottle , the advice there is to talk to your local authority cos they have different regulations in different areas . |
| 26 | So what I propose to do this morning , is to talk erm , based on the notes from the hand-book about Anthems of the Nation , but to spend probably more time , talking about the French National Anthem , than about any others , because I know a little bit about it , and I have discovered even more . |
| 27 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 28 | The first is to spell out to you the precise erm constitutional position of the president and the second , and perhaps more interestingly , is to talk about the notion of presidential power . |
| 29 | A WOMAN who went to a Turkish base camp is to talk of her experiences to a Darlington audience next week . |
| 30 | If I know him , he 'll make a detour to Bill 's to talk snooker . |