Example sentences of "speak of " in BNC.
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| 1 | All four books speak of a ‘ someone other ’ . |
| 2 | What I can say , however , is that the constructivist position allows a distinctive analysis of the ‘ mental ’ when we speak of a ‘ mental representation of a green patch ’ : it helps us to understand the difference between mental representations and the non-mental variety ( a photograph for example ) . |
| 3 | The poems speak of Youth , of Beauty' , of Love , of Parting and of Death , the last of which is not tragic but full of promise that life will be reborn . |
| 4 | The words also speak of the joy and fun of friendship , of looking into a pool of knowledge , of drinking and lastly of a tender farewell . |
| 5 | He is horrified by the contemptuous way in which fat Establishment cats speak of workers and it is particularly unfortunate that his enthusiastic support for co-operatives should have foundered because he backed dodgy horses . |
| 6 | And where once union leaders talked of struggle and solidarity , now they speak of profitability and competitiveness . |
| 7 | Instead townspeople speak of Maan 's glorious role in sparking another great rebellion , the Arab revolt against the Ottomans . |
| 8 | It is inevitable and right that if we are to make God real for ourselves we must , to a considerable degree , speak of Him in human terms , which is what the Bible does when it speaks of Him as repenting , changing His mind , being provoked or made angry or sorrowful . |
| 9 | Further , it is noticeable that those who speak of a ‘ suffering God ’ tend to employ rather different language when they speak of ‘ God in action ’ , as the report of the Doctrine Commission illustrates . |
| 10 | Further , it is noticeable that those who speak of a ‘ suffering God ’ tend to employ rather different language when they speak of ‘ God in action ’ , as the report of the Doctrine Commission illustrates . |
| 11 | Roots and branches speak of plant-life and of the gods which anthropology stressed were totemically associated with it . |
| 12 | I speak of T. of S. and H. of D. together because both attempt to present Evil … |
| 13 | … it is what we imply when we speak of Primitive Culture . |
| 14 | As we might speak of the culture of the Hebrides , or as W. H. Rivers wrote of the culture of Melanesia , so we speak of the culture of the European West to describe a set of outlooks , aims and ways of life , which has a history in the past of Europe and has spread to other parts of the world . |
| 15 | Some reports quoting ‘ sources close to the Treasury ’ speak of swinging increases in tax liability on company cars over two litres . |
| 16 | We speak of ‘ stars ’ and ‘ trees ’ as though they were entities which we had mastered in our post-Newtonian , materialist fashion . |
| 17 | But even the most rudimentary reading of his many surviving letters will reveal passages which speak of the pleasures of reading with or to Mrs Moore . |
| 18 | The good news , meanwhile , is that reformed shopaholics almost always speak of a silver lining to the cloud which hung over their lives ( and bank accounts ) . |
| 19 | People who have seen the Helmund poppy fields speak of their beauty — mile after mile of even poppies , like the tulip fields of Holland . |
| 20 | Pau retains a circle of Anglophiles who cherish the British connection and speak of it with affectionate admiration — not the most widespread of French responses to us . |
| 21 | Israelis speak of a ‘ Scud-induced honeymoon ’ between themselves and the Americans . |
| 22 | The definition of gold is simply what we mean by the word , the complex idea or nominal essence we have in our minds when we speak of it . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is , perhaps it is not ; our ignorance shows that what we mean when we speak of personal identity is continuity of consciousness , not of substance . |
| 24 | We do not , Locke points out , punish a person for what he did when temporarily insane , and we speak of him as having been ‘ not himself ’ or ‘ beside himself ’ . |
| 25 | Consider , he says , that when we speak of the existence of a sensible thing we mean that we are perceiving it by various of our senses , or could perceive it were we suitably placed . |
| 26 | We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ . |
| 27 | When we speak of a man of property , we may think , perhaps , in one of two ways . |
| 28 | There are , for example , passages in the Old Testament which speak of a ‘ sabbath rest ’ for nature . |
| 29 | We speak of the ‘ sacrifices ’ we make for one another — that notion rings many bells . |
| 30 | We speak of a mother sacrificing her life for her children . |