What's the difference between auntie and beeb?

Auntie


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Aunty

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Songwriter Dan Bull urged BBC bosses in Dear Auntie (An Open Letter to the BBC) : "You need to appeal to the people that feel John Peel, and want to keep it real.
  • (2) Her auntie took care of us; she swiftly and strongly guided us back to the van where she was taken to the medics.
  • (3) The track I’d play at my auntie’s wedding Thelma Houston: You Used To Hold Me So Tight Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thelma’s got the funk!
  • (4) Chubby, bright-eyed babies were passed around and distant relatives traced out how they were connected (“I think the brother of your auntie’s husband was married to my cousin’s daughter”).
  • (5) It's alarming to see the Financial Times leader this week join in with gusto: "It's time to chop up Auntie," it began.
  • (6) My auntie, who is white, says: ‘They would not do it to their own.’” Yet Jay’s report cast doubt on the idea that perpetrators attacked only white girls.
  • (7) I wouldn’t see my friends again, or my auntie and cousins, who are my family.
  • (8) My auntie Nora combined gambling on the Irish sweepstakes with teaching me my catechism for my first Holy Communion.
  • (9) I wouldn't have minded, but my Auntie Pat had written the exact same thing underneath it three hours earlier.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aunty Dolly Jerome calling for justice for the Bowraville child murder victims during a march on NSW Parliament House.
  • (11) With bands such as the Banshees and the Bunnymen opting for lavish orchestrations, Bush now seemed less like a throwback to pre-punk times and more like a sort of posh auntie to the goths.
  • (12) There are a Christian couple who Nazrin Wilkinson, the NHA local campaign manager, said "are lovely: they're like your auntie and uncle".
  • (13) I know someone who remembers a scene from his childhood when everybody went to his auntie’s house when he was about eight years old.
  • (14) You know this Auntie will miss you.” Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 Jorge-Reyes worked as a supervisor at the Gucci store in Orlando.
  • (15) If she does have any moments of weakness now, there’s always Auntie Sarah Millican to call upon.
  • (16) Then 16 more people, including dear Aunty, became ill and, when tested, were confirmed Ebola positive.
  • (17) Although it did pop up again off-Broadway, on ABC2, as rolling news of the prime minister’s demise took over Aunty’s main channel for the night.
  • (18) David Cameron's mother signs petition against cuts to children's services Read more But Mary Cameron’s protest – her sister, Cameron’s Auntie Clare has also publicly declared the cuts to be a “ great, great error ” – symbolises something much more significant: that there is now almost open revolt against local government cuts among Tory councils, and increasingly, Tory MPs, particularly in rural areas.
  • (19) She was coming from Nigeria to stay with an “auntie” – actually a family friend.
  • (20) From 1 October, the surviving spouse will receive the whole lot, and parents and long-lost aunties won’t see a penny.

Beeb


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said: "No wonder – and I speak as one who has just fought a campaign in which I sometimes felt that my chief opponent was the local BBC news – the prevailing view of Beeb newsrooms is, with honourable exceptions, statist, corporatist, defeatist, anti-business, Europhile and, above all, overwhelmingly biased to the left."
  • (2) The last word to Shreerang Sarpotdar: "Any chance the Beeb can get Paul Octopus as the pundit?
  • (3) 12:21pm: "I was impressed with Klinsmann on the Beeb for the Argentina-Nigeria game over the weekend," hollers David Wall.
  • (4) Photograph: ITV Think it's a comfortable victory for the Beeb, especially with the fact that they have Zinedine Kilbane coming off the bench and that ITV have replaced Roy Keane with Clarke Carlisle.
  • (5) "Global has stepped up and said we are absolutely doing it, we have great new ideas of things we could do on digital but we are not going to do it until our listeners can hear it in decent quality and that is something that we have been clear from the start the Beeb will need to do," said Tabor, the Global Group founder and chief executive.
  • (6) At the Beeb today, Rossi and Parfitt record slot after slot.
  • (7) By interrogating them, Flanders was exhibiting the bias typical of the Beeb's focaccia-eating lefties.
  • (8) But there’s a feebleness and a lack of robustness about the Beeb – and obviously cack-handedness – that has allowed it to be in this position of people going: ‘Ooh, the BBC, it’s a big worry’.
  • (9) Far from being an example of what's wrong with the Beeb, 6 Music is a beautiful example of the BBC at its best.
  • (10) We have used this model previously to identify conformational intermediates in the production of an assembly-competent form of the human chorionic gonadotropin beta subunit (Ruddon, R. W., Krzesicki, R. F., Norton, S. E., Beebe, J. S., Peters, B. P., and Perini, F. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (11) Photograph: Laurence Cendrowicz Her latest screen outing sees her back at the Beeb for an adaptation of James Herbert's horror novel The Secret Of Crickley Hall.
  • (12) So what will bands perform when the Beeb goes to Salford?
  • (13) It’s like Voltaire didn’t say : I don’t agree with what you say, and I will fight to the death to get you sacked by the Beeb for it.
  • (14) I don't give a fig about the amateur dramatics of the Beeb, or the Lib Dems or the Church.
  • (15) There are at least three isozymes (C alpha, C beta, and C gamma) of the mammalian catalytic (C) subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) (Beebe, S., Oyen, O., Sandberg, M., Froysa, A., Hansson, V., and Jahnsen, T. (1990) Mol.
  • (16) George Entwistle at the Beeb was treated better than Jill (after 17 years of high service).
  • (17) Now that he has parted company with the Beeb, Ross is unlikely to be short of offers from rivals.
  • (18) Protesters held banners including "God save our Birmingham Broadcasting Corporation" and "News Flash – Auntie Beeb is at home here in Brum".
  • (19) In our business you know pretty well why the Mail and the Murdoch empire, every time the Beeb do anything, they get slammed.
  • (20) In their 1975 overall review of aging studies related to the atomic bomb (A-bomb) survivors, Finch and Beebe concluded that while most studies had shown no correlation between aging and radiation exposure, they had not involved the large numbers of subjects required to provide strong evidence for or against the hypothesis.

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