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Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
practices widely accepted during one decade may become quite inappropriate in the next , in which different social conditions may prevail and different technological considerations apply . No political decision … can be right for all time . It must be reviewed in the light of changing circumstances . Given the current technical framework and the likely developments in the future , how can British broadcasting be financed in such a way as to brine the greatest enjoyment and pleasure to as many viewers and listeners as possible while at the same time fulfilling the public service obligation ? This broad philosophical sweep led the Committee to consider the following areas :
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
In Northamptonshire , Miss Green continued under the Cassell Trust 's funding of the Kettering scheme but her relationships with Lee , the university resident tutor , continued to be formal and distant . Her reluctant pioneering activity in Huntingdonshire led to courses at Eaton Socon , St. Neots and the county town . With Miss Stocks 's support , the Cassell Trust grant was renewed yet again , but Miss Green appeared to have lost her former enthusiasm for breaking new ground and she concentrated her efforts in established WEA branches with the exception of Corby which she helped to re - establish in 1936 . The final period of the Kettering scheme came when in 1938 the Cassell Trustees agreed to renew their grant for a further two years on a reducing scale with a concluding sum of £ 50 in 1940 to extinguish their support . However , it was not required as Miss Green resigned her appointment as District tutor - organiser in December 1939 .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh , I think the story goes on from there , because I do n't think though and this is a personal opinion and I I 'd love the Committee to I do n't know tha that er I M R O ever did get accounts out of Liechtenstein because a year later B I M the m the ownership of it was transferred from Liechtenstein back to England but guess who the the , the owner was transfer to a charitable trust , so we 've got erm a company that is handling the investment management of seven hundred million pounds worth of pension funds which is owned by a charity and the and the accounts that were given to I M R O and these accounts were given to I M R O a year later , were charity commission er type accounts , which evidently showed something like five hundred thousand pounds in that charitable fund and er and no transactions you know , so and that company that was running that was the beneficial owner of our investment company where all the errors took place . Can I , can I just put some other bit of information in front of you as well . You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure . Can now , can we actually move on a bit because , that has been very valuable what you said , but in fairness to Mr Maxwell it also has to be said does n't it that up until he stole these assets er this process of throwing organisations , peoples monies into a spin dryer and pulling them out of different sort of sequences was something he regularly did and we 've had witnesses to say how well he did manage the funds and how they grew , whether when they should sell stock and when they should n't sell stock and so on . So we 're actually concentrating on the actual business of that in the final analysis , despite how he behaved , large amounts of funds were stolen and you b you 've kicked us off to a very valuable start about whether that would be harder to do faced with a Maxwell - type character if all of Good was implemented .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
Unity Trust in black UNITY Trust , the trade union bank , is preparing to offer its basic banking services to charities , many of which now face being charged by commercial banks as if they were profit - making small businesses . Unity Trust itself wrote off £ 1 million in bad debts in 1992 , mainly on property development loans , but still made profits of £ 656,000 after two years in the red . Its subsidiaries , including interests in financial services , personal pensions , in collaboration with Colonial Mutual , and investment management , contributed to profits for the first time . The ballot service , similar to that offered by the Electoral Reform Society , cut its losses on increased business .
Idiom: cry foul (used idiomatically: yes)
If you are a good journalist you 're already there ; you should be able to anticipate ahead that there might be an invasion on . Patrick Chauvel and I could see things were about to happen in Panama , Noriega had declared war on America , but it was Xmas and only a few of us went there . So for all these journalists to cry foul because they 're not being given a plane and they 're not being allowed to fly in — I think that 's just a bunch of bullshit . It 's like why was n't there anyone in Kuwait ? One reason was that the Kuwaitis would n't give anyone a visa , except female print journalists .
Idiom: out of your mind (used idiomatically: yes)
All she could recall with any certainty was the tender , soothing voice in a dream that was rapidly becoming a nightmare . Oh , why had she fallen asleep ? ‘ I didn't … you can't … you're out of your mind with fever,’ she stammered wildly . ‘ I 'm out of my mind , all right,’ he snarled . ‘ Out of my mind for wanting a traitorous little witch like you .
Idiom: out of the box (used idiomatically: yes)
It has a wider removable rear jaw which has three positions ; it can also later be replaced with a Power Tool Table , enabling a circular saw , jigsaw or router to be fixed underneath , and be used in a stationary position . The 750 also has a larger bench surface , 29 in long and 13 in wide ( with the narrower , 4–3/4 in jaw closed up to the wider 8–1/4 in one ) and it will grip wider objects , as the vice jaws can be spaced further apart . We were surprised to find that the 750 was only partially assembled , having expected to just pull it out of its box and start using it . The tempered steel pins which held the handles in position were rather difficult to fit , and eventually had to be hammered in . An older hand , helping with the fixing , commented that the release clips for folding and unfolding the Workmate were set further back than on his old - style version , making them a little more difficult to operate , and that the metal frame had more angular , sharper corners — not quite as user - friendly , he reckoned !
Idiom: dressed to the nines (used idiomatically: yes)
' What a treasure ' and asked Stella to afternoon tea at George Henry Lee 's across the road . ' Like this , ' Stella said , looking down at her overall , and Dotty said clothes did n't matter , it was the inner person that counted . In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin - striped trouser - suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . Babs Osborne , huddled on the telephone in the door - keeper 's cubicle , was attempting , yet again , to get through to Stanislaus . ' Mr Winek has to be there , ' she cried , thumping the wall with her fist and dislodging a drawing - pin , sending a call sheet and a sheaf of addresses spiralling about the corridor .
Idiom: carry the can (used idiomatically: yes)
As I made my way home and tried to comprehend the logic of taking another batsman on board , I kept arriving at the same conclusion — that I 'd be better off out of it . I could see no just cause for carrying on after arguing vehemently against the idea , then seeing it carried . As cricket chairman , I was left to carry the can for a move that made no sense and was none of my doing . And I was n't prepared to go along with that . There was only one thing for it , and that was to sever a connection that — save for a seven - year stint with Somerset in the 70s — goes back to 1949 .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
Prices start at £ 14 for a cotton vest while their silk jacquard pyjamas at £ 288 are about the top of the price band . The shop 's appearance is restrained , admirably avoiding knicker - blinds and the like . Martel and Melissa ( above , left and right ) are the joint owners . Emma Bridgewater 's shop , which is simply called Bridgewater , is wonderfully unprinked - up . The spongeware is displayed on a battered collection of dressers and shelves which suits its quirky rusticity .
Idiom: get away with murder (used idiomatically: yes)
How comforting it is to know that Charles can communicate so well with people who are 40 or 50 years older than himself . Mind you , it would be more comforting if he could do the same with those who are a dozen years younger than he is . Getting away with murder Penny Wark How killers can walk free in vigilante Britain .
Idiom: spin a yarn (used idiomatically: yes)
What the ‘ fixing ’ amounted to we can only guess . However , there were occasional instances where the ‘ right attitude ’ was undercut by two other interpretative processes which are crucial to the operation of discretion : the typifications used to classify the potential offender and the ‘ reasonableness of the excuse ’ . For example , a woman who over the phone sounded to one policeman as ‘ dead on ’ still had a complaint against her noisy dogs investigated because the complainant appeared to another policeman not to be ‘ spinning a yarn ’ ( FN 19/9/87 , p. 29 ) . Similarly , having the wrong attitude is a constituent part of being a ‘ gouger ’ , but there were a few situations when the subsequent application of the gouger typification late into the encounter undercut the effect of the politeness of the offender , and the deference displayed was less important than the knowledge that later led to the use of the typification . The gouger typification is important to discretion in another way .
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Tony Greig had already failed in his attempt to make the West Indies ' grovel ' , and never looked like doing it now . Indeed , in the first game at Scarborough they lost a wicket first ball and had three down for 23 before Barlow , on his first representative appearance , held the innings together with 80 not out , helping the total to 202 . There was one lovely freak occurrence near the end : Knott played the ball down to fine leg and Holding 's throw hit the stumps with Barlow well home , whereupon he called Knott for a second run . With both batsmen in the middle of the pitch , the ricochet beat Barlow to the bowler 's end and broke the stumps there as well ; Lloyd appealed , but umpire Jepson gave ' not out ' . When West Indies batted , Richards was soon laying into them , hammering a six and twenty fours in 119 not out .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
They did not , in the experience of these teachers work . This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . When , under the influence of the newer curriculum methods , the approach to the library by teacher and student became more sophisticated , the catalogues no longer served . But this is not all . If any one activity is thought , in the public mind , to represent the essence of librarianship it is undoubtedly classification and cataloguing : the organization of library materials into a system for their displayed storage and the easy retrieval of the subject content of the collection .
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
The Declaration provides for the possibility of taking ` specific measures to assist ( the outermost regions ) inasmuch and as long as there is an objective need to take such measures with a view to the economic and social development of those regions . '
Idiom: pecking order (used idiomatically: yes)
It is not uncommon to find households with two or more Rottweilers and it is in these situations , that sometimes , the green - eyed monster can appear . This usually happens when the pecking order in the pack is upset , or a new arrival causes confusion to the status quo . One theory is that you should dominate the dog who is lowest in the pecking order to make him realize that he is the lowest and to prevent problems from occurring . However , I feel it is better to dominate all dogs equally and make them come to a submissive position in front of the owner , preferably the down position . By reinforcing your own dominance , you may well steal the thunder of the antagonists .
Idiom: crystal clear (used idiomatically: yes)
NEWNHAM / Gloucestershire Voice over The 13th century Coaley Millpond used to be full of crystal clear water . Now it 's choking with thick green algae . The growth is n't only unsightly , it also clogs up the intake to a water turbine that provides electricity for the mill .
Idiom: go it alone (used idiomatically: yes)
They have contributed only 39 % of what the central government requires them to hand over in the first three months of the year . Rapid agreement on the anti - crisis programme — and bolder measures besides — might forestall disaster . So might the decision to let the republics go it alone on economic reform . Otherwise , it is too easy to imagine what might happen next . If the republican governments pressed for full wage - indexation , the central bank would be unable to keep its promise not to finance budget deficits by printing money .
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
The German trade association , the Börsenverein , will hold its 8th International Booksellers Seminar on the German Book Trade in Frankfurt from 29th September to 10th October . It is aimed at young booksellers from outside the German speaking area who are interested in learning about the structure of German publishing and bookselling . There will be visits to major publishers and a number of booksellers , offering participants a behind - the - scenes view of the German trade . An excursion to the major German ' Barsortiment ' will give practical insight into the German distribution and book export systems . The programme is rounded off with a two - day visit to the Frankfurt Book Fair .
Idiom: sweep the board (used idiomatically: yes)
One obvious possibility here is to regard the union Parliament as representative of all parties and thus as empowered to vary the terms of union — nothing more than a rationalisation of its sovereignty . Nevertheless , this was not the simple procedure by which the most significant departure from union was effected . In the general election of 1918 , Sinn Fein , the Irish independence party , swept the board in Ireland , except for a handful of Unionist seats in the North . Sinn Fein did not take up their seats but instead formed a ‘ Provisional Government’ of the Irish Free State . A period of disorder and insurrection followed and finally , in December 1921 , representatives of the Provisional Government of Michael Collins met with representatives of the British Government and concluded a ‘ treaty’ agreeing upon the establishment of the Irish Free State with provision for Northern Ireland to opt out as , predictably , it would and did .
Idiom: go to seed (used idiomatically: yes)
As usual , plenty were red - eyed , plenty rubbing impressions of the names of their dead onto paper . And there was the usual squad of veterans , some selling T - shirts , many with POW / MIA hats and stickers . Many were dressed in fatigues ; some , with unkempt hair and pot - bellies , looked as if they had started to go to seed long ago . A day earlier , some of these veterans had taken part in as emotional and personal a demonstration against a president as Washington has seen for years . Bill Clinton had come to their shrine on Memorial Day , the first president ever to do so .
Idiom: dig deep (used idiomatically: yes)
With whom did I feel most open and confident about expressing myself in words ? Was there a difference between what I felt I could say and what I felt I could write ? These are hard questions to answer , so be prepared to take your time and dig deep . It 's not a race or a competition , but a process of discovering , or uncovering , your own writing voice . Note down the first thoughts that come into your head and follow where they lead ; but do try to answer all the questions .
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
She longed for him to be with her again . How much she wanted him there , in the bed beside her . How happy she would be now , if she could turn her head and see him there , and reach out her arms to hold on to him and pull him close . She sighed and stretched her body sensuously beneath the sheet , listening dreamily to the almost comforting thrum of the receding planes . Suddenly she sat upright in bed as though pulled by strings , her brain clearing as if her head had been pushed into a bucket of water .
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Coins and the Past The preceding chapters indicate the wealth of information which coins can contribute to our understanding of the past . Discussion of the methods of approaching the material has highlighted many of the problems which should be borne in mind when using coin evidence . These actually come down to common sense , but it still needs to be stressed that the successful study of coinage , as any other historical discipline , should be based on as full a collection of the evidence as possible as well as an awareness that this evidence should never be taken at face value . It is always necessary to set it against a more general background or to establish the conventions and limitations adopted by the makers of these small and almost two - dimensional objects .
Idiom: take a flyer (used idiomatically: no)
And , although he does n't say so , you can see that at the back of his mind , there 's an idea brewing in Andy McDonald . And what it says is , there must be a better way . ‘ I just took a flyer when I was at Stiff,’ says the gently - spoken rock demon through a head cold . ‘ I had about 700 quid and I had some mates who 'd been in Clock DVA , the Sheffield band . They 'd split up and about a year later , they 'd formed The Box and wanted to get a record out , and that 's how it started in January ‘ 83 .
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr. Hogg I entirely agree with my hon . Friend 's emphasis on the involvement of the IMF in the economic reconstruction of Russia and the other republics of the CIS . On the back of such IMF programmes , it will be possible to give yet further assistance to the republics of the CIS . Mr. Dalyell On security , is not the most urgent initiative to try to help the republics with the leaking trigger mechanisms of many of the nuclear devices on their territory ?
Idiom: lose the plot (used idiomatically: yes)
In fact , Joe , er , Mark Little has upped and left Oz in favour of England — after touring this country with his one - man show ( he fancies himself as a bit of a new age traveller ) , he wants to settle down in near Manchester . Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real - life counterpart to be an anti - government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . When he 's finished his ballet routine —‘Lots of people come to see what Joe Mangle is going to do , and when I appear on stage doing my best arabesque , you can feel people thinking ‘ Oh no , he 's really lost the plot’— he throws out a few one - liners . Swigging a bottle of mineral water : ‘ Coming from a cultural desert , you tend to get thirsty.’ Pulling on a pair of ‘ Afro - American tribal dance boots’(ie Nikes ) to complement his khaki tie - dye T - shirt and army trousers : ‘ It was a toss - up between this and a shell suit .
Idiom: up the river (used idiomatically: yes)
Well where did he caught the fish ? Down the bottom by Liam 's , that 's where he caught them ! Down river , or was it up the river ? It 's a river ! You ca n't fly fish here !
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
I 've tried to keep this review from trespassing too far into Mills & Boon territory , but it must be obvious to all and sundry that I love the Legend to bits . It also gives me a patriotic thrill , knowing that it 's British designed and built . So often , when a company introduces a new model , there follows a wave of disappointment when it invariably fails to break any new ground . But this is far from being the case here . The workmanship is impeccable and I 'm certain the Legend could face any musical challenge and suit a variety of styles , from downhome country to lock - up - your - daughters metal , making it versatile , durable , good - looking and I want one .
Idiom: for the hell of it (used idiomatically: yes)
Too bloody good , too . Which reminds me — how about we have that game when we get back ? No wager or anything , just a game for the hell of it.’ ‘ Yes,’ said Marcus , ‘ I 'd like that.’ He was surprised to find he meant it .
Idiom: on the dot (used idiomatically: yes)
You hurry up and finish your breakfast.’ She stood up . ‘ Well , whatever happens , we 're leaving here at seven thirty on the dot . If she 's not ready , we 'll go without her.’ She added : ‘ I might do that anyway .
Idiom: wear the trousers (used idiomatically: yes)
The men never looked anything until they were at least forty , and the women , especially the thin ones , went into a condition of permanent desiccation in their mid - twenties . Occasionally they had a brief flowering in old age , but that was it . Miss Grimsilk had a clean good skin , clean good hair of an indeterminate brown , used no make - up and wore trousers and jacket that were excellently cut and of clean good British wool , but of a miserable dirty slate - grey colour . Her blouse was grey too . How could all those wonderful , light , fairy designs have come from this dreary - looking lady ?
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh , is it ? Yeah It really is appalling to see and thank goodness it 's in black and white , it 's not in colour but I 'll share that view yes . I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more .
Idiom: under your breath (used idiomatically: yes)
I do n't think he heard me ! Yeah . Under your breath , something . Yeah and I went oh thanks ! Well I did n't actually but he was arsed I just said oh thanks very much !