Example sentences of "is talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike , a Cambridge undergraduate who is working on a kibbutz is talking to the Jewish girl Gila and explaining why he left university to end up in Israel . |
| 2 | Within moments , he is talking about Brecht 's THREEPENNY OPERA pointing out how Brecht invented an abstract London , not in order to escape from the reality of the city , but to create a generalized framework which could be relevant to audiences in many different places . |
| 3 | It remains true that in Tate 's criticism and since ( for no advance has been made in this quarter ) ‘ rhythm ’ and ‘ movement ’ are wholly impressionistic — you hear what the critic is talking about , or else you do n't . |
| 4 | Already , President George Bush is talking about a full restoration of Sino-US relations . |
| 5 | Page 19 Car link : American car maker Chrysler is talking to Mitsubishi of Japan about setting up manufacturing plants in Europe . |
| 6 | The following is an extract of conversation in which an experienced neighbourhood constable is talking while out on his beat about discretion , in which its exercise is linked to both the development of local knowledge and the possession of interactive skills : |
| 7 | A comrade is talking to you one moment and is gone the next , either blasted beyond recognition or seriously wounded . |
| 8 | It is an illustration of the way in which ‘ The Thing ’ works by substituting nonsense for sense , so that presently everybody is talking nonsense , and nobody can talk sense any more . |
| 9 | It looks back to Lanman as well as to Eliot 's other Sanskrit teacher , the ex-anthropologist , Woods , who had written that to the Hindu , ‘ Logically and temporally , the word seems to precede its idea and its meaning : a man thinks , the Hindu would say , because he is talking . |
| 10 | It was my philosophy professor , a native of the Antilles , who recalled the fact to me one day : ‘ Whenever you hear anyone abuse the Jews , pay attention because he is talking about you ’ . |
| 11 | But fundamentalists are also really dangerous , at least for a while , because hypocrites think that everybody is talking double talk , like them , and awful misunderstandings occur . |
| 12 | Tory planners think the Labour party is talking up a May or June poll , trying to bounce them into an election while interest rates are still high . |
| 13 | His economics minister is talking of currency union between the two Germanies by July . |
| 14 | Mr Solarz 's knack for generating publicity , his network of contacts in Asia , his influence with the administration and his reputation for knowing what he is talking about — rare enough among congressmen who spout on foreign affairs — give him clout . |
| 15 | At least she does not recognize who she is talking to , for God is in strange disguise . |
| 16 | More than any of the other major characters in the great story from Genesis to Kings Moses has a tendency to know what he is talking about . |
| 17 | The storyteller knows what he is talking about . |
| 18 | Obviously , she is talking about the boiled egg and toast , but it is a funny way of putting things , talking about ‘ needs ’ and not appetite or eating habits . |
| 19 | Another tribute came from an independent source , and a man who knows what he is talking about . |
| 20 | He seems sensible and rather nice and he knows what he is talking about . |
| 21 | He is a veteran interviewee , yet somehow gives the impression that he is talking from the heart . |
| 22 | Mr Albert Reynolds , prime minister , is talking to the leaders of all the main political parties in an effort to find a consensus on the issue . |
| 23 | In the first , a canvasser is talking to a farmer 's wife . |
| 24 | Cuttings books show that many foreign newspapers have carried far more reports and feature articles on the event than American newspapers and magazines — particularly in Californian , where the event is talking place . |
| 25 | Conoco estimates total reserves in the area could reach 3 trillion cubic feet and is talking to a number of companies , including Lasmo , Sovereign and Atlantic Richfield about tying in their undeveloped discoveries . |
| 26 | They may reach different conclusions , but they do not pre-empt the discussion by claiming either that one side is talking nonsense or that the other side is talking from a position of impossible disadvantage through lack of faith . |
| 27 | They may reach different conclusions , but they do not pre-empt the discussion by claiming either that one side is talking nonsense or that the other side is talking from a position of impossible disadvantage through lack of faith . |
| 28 | It is talking about an omnipresence of God . |
| 29 | This in itself created a double problem because the action of this scene moves from a point where Nicholson is talking normally right through to the point where he is stoned and slurred through smoking marijuana . |
| 30 | It does n't matter where he/she finishes , but whether the coach is only asking the eight-year-olds to spring 50m or trying to get all the senior team to really race hard over the first 1500m , he or she must be seen to experience it too or the children simply wo n't believe the coach can know what he/she is talking about . |