Example sentences of "and speak of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Some of those present say they too have heard this story and speak of what they know . |
| 3 | We feel we are very fortunate to have known Shanti 's mother , for we were able to tell her what her mother looked like , and speak of her lovingly as a person , not as the ‘ brown paper parcel ’ referred to before . |
| 4 | He had subjected himself to his own personal therapy , requiring himself to sit alone in a hospital room and speak of those happenings aloud . |
| 5 | It is arguable , with some hope of success , that we can speak of a choice or a decision as an effect and not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance which was required for it , and speak of an action as an effect and need not be committed to there having been a causal circumstance that was — roughly speaking — prior in time to the agent 's initial neurophysiological activity . |
| 6 | Certainly we often think and speak of decisions and the like as effects . |
| 7 | We would go down to the Seine and speak of water , boats and fish ; or we would go to the public park , where a few birds languished in an ancient aviary and the old mynah bird entertained us with a lavish range of endearments . |
| 8 | Then Minch would talk quietly to Creggan and speak of the lore of golden eagles which his parents had begun to tell him . |
| 9 | They describe our world , and speak of other worlds beyond . |
| 10 | Even if one were to , as I do , empathize with sophisticated functional Marxism of , say , G. A. Cohen and speak of the compatibility or incompatibility of certain sets of cultural forms with certain other sets of production relations , one would still be looking for an explanation of the specific properties of those cultural forms . |
| 11 | Resolutions 242 and 338 are the agreed basis for peace talks and speak of Israel giving up territory it has been occupying since 1967 in return for peace . |
| 12 | It is no wonder that what we see becomes identified with , and spoken of as if it were the same as , what we touch . |
| 13 | The story of the blacksmith 's involvement in the Battle of Drumclog can not be substantiated by any written record of the battle but it has been handed down through many generations of people in the Irvine Valley and spoken of with pride . |
| 14 | None of the simple rituals could be observed but in the tradition of warriors who have performed brave deeds — say the grabbing of the tail of a lion before spearing it — Tepilit was remembered and spoken of . |
| 15 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 16 | Certainly mention of Cailliet and Bédé brings back Eliot to a familiar uniting of primitive and urban as , after stating that ‘ I myself would like an audience which could neither read nor write ’ , he recalls Sweeney Agonistes ( published in book form in December 1932 ) and speaks of the poet as ‘ something of a popular entertainer … having a part to play in society as worthy as that of the music-hall comedian ’ . |
| 17 | In 1712 , Atkyns describes a scene of great activity and speaks of Chalford as ‘ a remarkable place for the great number of clothing mills and the great quantity of cloth made there in the neighbourhood ’ . |
| 18 | He agrees that tarot are the ‘ devil 's picture cards ’ and speaks of the time he was robbed of his powers just before his conversion . |
| 19 | Their work is relevant to us and speaks of the human condition not because it attains universality and ‘ objectivity ’ , as Goody and others would imply , but on the contrary precisely because of its articulation with the real social experience in which they participated . |
| 20 | In these struggles , Bourdieu generalizes the model from Weber 's sociology of religion and speaks of avant-garde ‘ prophets ’ supporting heterodoxy and modernist autonomization in struggle versus bureaucratic ‘ priests ’ who support orthodoxy . |
| 21 | One evening Pamela comes alone to my flat and speaks of Nigel . |
| 22 | In a letter to the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , he points out that there have been 4,636 infringements of the directive and speaks of a " disturbing lack of stringency in enforcing compliance with the directive " on the part of the government . |
| 23 | Mr Major ranged beyond the EC and spoke of a feeling in the air of a better Europe to be built . |
| 24 | He conjured before their minds a poetic word-picture of St Aidan coming from Iona in Scotland and settling there with his band of monks to pray and to spread Christianity among the heathen English ; and spoke of St Cuthbert to whom on that spot the people went to seek help and comfort and guidance , until he fled across the sands and sea to be alone with God on his island — so carry the lesson back , to a county black with people and with coal , carry back the need for quiet , and separation from whirl , and silence ; and so heaven will be nearer . |
| 25 | Mr Trippier was one of a number of European government ministers who attended the conference and spoke of their committment to compensate developing countries for the expense they would have to entail in order to avoid adding to an ecological disaster that has been created by industrialised states . |
| 26 | Adrian seemed very fond of his grandmother , and spoke of her kindly as he drove from lough to lough , through enchanted countryside . |
| 27 | Mr Major warned against the ‘ dead end of Socialism ’ and spoke of the 10 ‘ Tory truths ’ paving the way for a golden future — strong defences , free market economics , tax cuts , low inflation , curbed union power , a flourishing health service , better schools , wider ownership , privatised industry and strong Government . |
| 28 | The Authority 's early explanations mentioned lime dosing equipment and spoke of ‘ a slight acidity problem ’ . |
| 29 | Old servants of the railway company came into the signal-box from which the broadcast was given and spoke of the closing of the station as if for them it was the end of a world . |
| 30 | The friar knew of them and spoke of them as good men illegally dispossessed and driven from their homes ; the verderers spoke of them with fear . |