Example sentences of "[verb] be talked [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A front panel has been talked about but nothing practical has been mentioned . |
| 2 | A great deal of rubbish has been talked about the seasoning of timber by craftsmen and by romantic but ignorant amateurs . |
| 3 | A link with the literary house Meulenhoff Nederland is one of the possibilities that has been talked about in the Dutch trade . |
| 4 | She has also worked the other way round , turning The Stand-In into a screenplay ; a film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Anjelica Huston has been talked about — though talk , in Hollywood is not a very reliable omen . |
| 5 | We also desperately need to install a safe and economical heating system — this has been talked about for too many years . |
| 6 | If the single European market can be established and made to work as that common market that has been talked about for the past 30 years , it will be a considerable achievement , but it will not be easy . |
| 7 | The new TV channel that has been talked about for a while will be named ‘ The Manchester United channel ’ and will outbid the BBC for the right to be channel no.1 and will have a completely unbiased opinion of football ( just like the BBC ) |
| 8 | The idea of bringing the elderly , disabled and mentally ill out of institutions to live independently in the community has been talked about for almost forty years . |
| 9 | We 're talking about this partly because of the document passed in the ministry in which , everybody has avidly read and erm has been talked about after the seventeenth er , in York in July . |
| 10 | At the centre , community care has been talked of for thirty years and in few areas can the gap between political rhetoric and policy on the one hand , or between policy and reality in the field on the other hand , have been so great . |
| 11 | The record of the peace movement in the 1930s has been a favoured weapon in the arsenal of its opponents ever since , and an astonishing amount of nonsense has been talked on the subject . |
| 12 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
| 13 | It is hardly surprising , therefore , that deposition should be mooted again — it had been talked of in the Gaveston crisis . |
| 14 | He had been talked into editing the Complete Poems and Plays as early as 1959 , with the blessing of the present Lord Ash , an elderly Methodist peer who was a descendant of a remote cousin of Ash himself and heir to the ownership of the unsold manuscripts . |
| 15 | Marshal Saxe had never been happy about the operation he was to command ; nor was Louis XV , who had been talked into supporting the attempt by his ministers . |
| 16 | Surprise , the raid had been talked about in Waco for days . |
| 17 | This had been talked about by a few experienced bomber squadron commanders , notably Wg Cdrs " Willie " Tait , Charles Whitworth , Syd Bufton and , of course , " Jimmy " Marks who , as bomber pilots . |
| 18 | Some of the children had been talked to and examined , but nothing was found . |
| 19 | Digital networks , in the form of ISDN ( integrated services digital network ) have been talked about for many years , and in mainly technical terms . |
| 20 | Some of this information can not be presented er within the timescales that have been talked about er therefore we need , we need some more information on costs and so on . |
| 21 | It 's a challenge that 's been talked about all over world , but who 's going to respond and how ? |
| 22 | ‘ It is completely novel for a high-street retailer to launch an added-value card like this , through it 's been talked about for some time , ’ says Ian Minors , managing director of Moss Bros agency MHA Direct . |
| 23 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |