Example sentences of "talk about [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final injury I want to talk about is brain damage caused by a hard blow to the head . |
| 2 | Percy Lubbock , at the end of The Craft of Fiction , acknowledged that as soon as we have finished reading a novel we begin to forget it , and what is left to talk about is a vague cloud of fading impressions : ‘ the book vanishes as we lay hands on it . ’ |
| 3 | The only thing people seem to have to talk about is television . |
| 4 | Now , the next thing to talk about is when we can let you go . ’ |
| 5 | The design we are going to talk about is a DIY design in that , apart from a 555 timer and 4001 NOR gate chip , discretes are used to carry out the various circuit operations and the system is capable of being modified for those who like a starting point and then like to experiment . |
| 6 | Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing ! |
| 7 | basically what you want to talk about is it . |
| 8 | Often benefit is not paid for weeks on end , so to claim that the regulation would result in some of the expeditious service from the DSS that the Minister likes to talk about is absurd . |
| 9 | The one thing we 're always reluctant to talk about is young goalkeepers . |
| 10 | Well what I wanted to talk about is , when Lady Th Thatcher first came into power |
| 11 | And what I think it would be helpful for us to talk about is where we sit in this business , just for half an hour , where does T N T sit in the industry ? |
| 12 | There 's quite a lot to talk about is n't there ? |
| 13 | The other thing I 'm going to talk about are intervals . |
| 14 | ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ What she did n't say and was too embarrassed to talk about was an uncanny feeling that she had only recently become aware of , but now realised had been growing in her ever since she had set foot on Titron . |
| 16 | I mean that 's that 's one of the things I want ed to talk about was the relevance of archaeology to that sort of work I mean certainly I 've done surveying you know |
| 17 | Now , the topic that Sheila asked me to talk about was skin care . |
| 18 | And Derek did n't grumble although all he wanted to talk about was his love life or lack of it . |
| 19 | They both loved deeply , but all they would ever be able to talk about were small , unimportant things . |
| 20 | I used to talk about being gay to my straight , but enlightened , friends — mostly women ; it was a relief to me and they were perfectly happy to talk about it . |
| 21 | I really did want to talk about being in business on your own account as opposed to er working for an employer . |
| 22 | Thus the statement " The concept lion is not empty " obviously is not likely to convey the desired information unless it is already clear from the context , or is otherwise indicated , that what is being talked about are actual and not merely imagined or fantasized lions . |
| 23 | A clear reluctance on the part of many Japanese even to discuss the problem suggests a reluctance to admit to the existence of the burakumin as an outcaste group , on the assumption that a problem that is not talked about is not a problem , or at least is one that will go away if it is ignored . |
| 24 | On the way , all my sisters talked about was the murder and when , on reaching the corner of Fair View Road and Kelsey Road , we met my cousin Violet the gossip was renewed with interest . |
| 25 | The fact that real issues were being talked about was often sufficient to cure the problem . |
| 26 | Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city . |
| 27 | I have had a message from the Stan Standard Mercury , from Davis , that my a county has been hysterical , we 've talked about being paranoid one time this morning . |
| 28 | The other thing we talked about is er whether people are in or out . |
| 29 | Well , maybe ‘ blossom ’ is an exaggeration , but I told Gillian one or two of Oliver 's jokes , and we talked about being apprehensive over coming to the group , and then it emerged that she was half-French , and I had something to say about that , and the estate agent tried to bring in Germany but we were n't having any of it , and before I knew where I was I had half-turned my shoulder to exclude the other chap and was saying , ‘ Look , I know you 've only more or less just arrived , but you would n't like a spot of supper would you ? |
| 30 | You talked about being erm you know , if God wanted you to be a missionary you 'd got to be a , a sort of teacher or a doctor , do you see your , your role in Harlow as , as a missionary role or as a doctor ? |