Example sentences of "[noun] [be] talking " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The fee Glentoran are talking about is acceptable to us . ’
2 According to the Brazilian government 's own figures , two-thirds of the population now suffers from some degree of malnutrition and in the north-east nutritionists are talking about an epidemic of dwarfism .
3 PEOPLE in the West are talking about traps built into the proposed DDR travel liberalisation law .
4 Market-watchers are talking of an approaching crisis , as recession spreads from east to west .
5 Already Chelsea fans are talking with conviction about the club winning the championship for only the second time in its history .
6 And I just wo n't talk if kids are talking .
7 but the kids are talking like we talk .
8 But I do know what these designers are talking about and it 's light years away from the ever-so-respectable , traditional French and Italian fashion design .
9 form tutors are talking
10 On 26 April , only one month after the press conference , up to 25 million dollars was the pot being chased in public , while in private the Utah lobbyists were talking about 125 million .
11 ‘ Two years ago manufacturers were talking about at least £16,000 for a unit ; now it 's down to below £10,000 . ’
12 By the end of last week , Conservative strategists were talking about broadening Tory support still further from the 42 per cent achieved on Thursday .
13 Dora 's talking about leaving tomorrow . ’
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time .
17 I mean David 's talking about the leaf stem I could n't care less about the leaf stem I 'm with most people I understand that Councillor Barry Jackson 's offered to look after it in his garden cos he likes it and he 's welcome to do that .
18 Harley MS 6579 and marked by italics : Or further , in chapter forty-six , where Hilton is talking about the word " Iesu " as a means of focusing all the inheritance of life that the recluse desires , he says : These insertions do not add anything new , they simply expand in a particular way what has been said and they are not absolutely consistent in all the manuscripts in which they appear .
19 Granddad 's talking to you
20 I mean that 's what Jean 's talking about getting .
21 Just a minute mummy 's talking to me .
22 ‘ We have made it clear that we accept the principal Father Caden is talking about . ’
23 With a hint of wistfulness in his voice , renowned photographer Steven Meisel is talking about British model Kate Moss .
24 It is important to notice here that Freud is talking about a part of the ego as being built up from the social and cultural surroundings , but that the whole ego is not built up in this way .
25 I mean why do people have to kind of , if , if , if we accept for a minute that there 's something in this analogy , this model that Freud is talking about , why do people have this compulsive need to repeat like this , why do they have to repeat history ?
26 Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody .
27 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 .
28 The Tibetan was talking in loud self-congratulatory tones about the religious statues and paintings that he 'd smuggled across the border and sold in India ; how time and again he 'd outwitted the border police , with silver , musk and contraband of every sort .
29 There were no hard core scenes , but Kylie was talking dirty , kicking off her underwear in bedroom antics and begging co-star Charlie Schlatter 's character to make love to her .
30 The stranger was talking , the voice was metallic and occasionally high : The tone , Flavia thought she was able to discern , was worldly : a worldly French voice .
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