Example sentences of "that [conj] we talk [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I even knew that if we talked about her past and all her life I might begin to like her , but I was thinking of a different countryside and different cattle and worrying about the oxen who ploughed the fields and turned the water wheels . |
| 2 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 3 | It means , by contrast , that when we talk of the technological imperative and resource allocation , we must realize that we are talking about the political process , and understand what this involves . |
| 4 | It was assumed that when we talk of " a style " or " the style of X " we refer to what is pervasive or recurrent in a text . |
| 5 | We do not exclude that possibility , but we find that when we talk to local authorities that they do not have the money to buy married quarters in the first place . |
| 6 | You should also note that when we talk about scale uses , this does not mean merely running up and down the scales like a machine ; scales are there to show you which notes to use , the idea being that you are supposed to make melodic phrases or lines from them . |
| 7 | Remember that when we talk about Religious we mean : |
| 8 | It would be foolish to deny that there has been great suspicion that when we talk about freedoms and flexibilities what we are actually talking about is worsening existing terms and conditions . |
| 9 | I ca n't deliver these resources overnight but I can say that when we talk about building the Best Banking and Financial Services Group , we do n't simply mean the best for our shareholders . |
| 10 | And , of course , I mean , we have , have to remember , that when we talk about ageing altruism , this is just an abstraction . |
| 11 | I 'm being deliberately fanciful , but I think that when we talk about ‘ population ’ exactly the same thing happens : individual people — laughing , working , scratching their heads trying to solve this problem or that — simply disappear . |
| 12 | I 'm being deliberately fanciful , but I think that when we talk about ‘ population ’ exactly the same thing happens : individual people — laughing , working , scratching their heads trying to solve this problem or that — simply disappear . |
| 13 | And we 'd elaborate that when we talk about er individual districts . |
| 14 | For those of you who erm get a little er flustered at the at electrophysiological concepts , let me just erm begin the lecture by erm reminding you that when we talk about the current through a channel , all we 're talking about is a flux . |
| 15 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 16 | You will recall that when we talked about the libido theory , I said that there were erm different one of the reasons why Freud had to introduce the libido theory was he wanted to get away from the narrow biological reproductive concept of sex to do with genitals and reproduction which is of course he 'd want to expand it to include psychological never seen before er or never seen before so clearly , such as erm love of the self and , and this he gave the name narcissism , well he did n't actually , somebody else invented it not long before and he took it over very quickly . |