Posts Tagged ‘adjective’
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Posted by Susan Jellis on April 27, 2009
That somebody might find raising funds difficult in these problematic financial times is certainly not beyond belief. That they might say, describing their plight, that ‘Getting the financing was beyond difficult’ may be more surprising.
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We’re used to things being beyond recognition, beyond a doubt/beyond reasonable doubt, beyond a joke, beyond expectations or beyond our wildest [...]
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Posted by Shane Rae on April 08, 2009
Why is it that journalists seem to think that they are allowed the greatest licence when using the English language? Why do they not feel bound by the same linguistic restraints as the rest of us? Often they make up brand new words to describe something in a way they feel that no existing word [...]
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Posted by Stephen Bullon on March 25, 2009
Scarcely a day goes by without Robert Peston, the BBC Business Editor, telling us of yet another eye-watering sum of money being allocated by government to a failing bank, or an eye-watering loss sustained by a major corporation.
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Here he is on his blog on 5th January this year:
And we can be fairly confident that they [...]
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