What's the difference between bedell and befell?

Bedell


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Beadle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The series has been commissioned by Elaine Bedell, director of entertainment and comedy at ITV.
  • (2) The ITV director of entertainment and comedy, Elaine Bedell, said it would be "one of the biggest TV events on ITV this year".
  • (3) The MGEITF executive chair, Elaine Bedell, added: "I'm very pleased George has accepted the role ...
  • (4) Geraldine Bedell, editor of Gransnet, and Ed Howker, co-author of Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth, discuss whether a generational war really has broken out.
  • (5) Stephens explores findings by Bedell and Delbanco that only 19% of patients undergoing resuscitation had previously discussed this issue with their physicians.
  • (6) Geraldine Bedell, who chaired the judges, said the list lacked ethnic diversity but she hoped that this would change in the future.
  • (7) The underdog candidate, who has never gone above single digits in any poll, started his speech by announcing the endorsement of former Iowa politician Berkley Bedell, before outlining his various liberal policy goals and tried to contrast his executive experience to that of Sanders and Clinton by stating he was about “actions, not words.” Former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee also spoke and seemed to spend much of his speech trolling Clinton.
  • (8) ITV’s director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell said: “It has been a wonderfully entertaining series from beginning to end.
  • (9) ITV's director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell said: "I joked when Splash went out that we would get celebrity rowing and celebrity roller skating.
  • (10) Geraldine Bedell: What worries me is the language that is often used, like "burden", "selfish", "greedy".
  • (11) Elaine Bedell, ITV's director of entertainment and comedy, said: "Britain's amateur talent has come out in force this year.
  • (12) Schuster, who will report to Elaine Bedell , ITV's director of comedy and entertainment, replaces Myfanwy Moore who moved to the BBC as controller of comedy earlier this year.
  • (13) Bedell said: "Scripted comedy will have an increasing and important role to play in the peak-time schedules of ITV2 as well as on the main channel, and I have no doubt that Saskia is the right person to be steering the genre for ITV.
  • (14) Spatial uncertainty was examined according to a procedure suggested by Bedell and Flom (1981) ("triangle procedure") and additionally with a line-division test designed by Kundt.
  • (15) Vicious has been commissioned by Moore and Elaine Bedell, ITV director of comedy and entertainment.
  • (16) In entertainment – which is headed by Elaine Bedell, the former BBC executive who is currently on gardening leave before joining ITV at the end of this week – the cuts are expected to mean the loss of two commissioners and one PA. Sources said the department's controller of alternative programming, Layla Smith, has held a discussion with independent production company Diverse about potentially replacing its outgoing creative director, Roy Ackerman.
  • (17) For each of those categories the judging panel – which included Gransnet editor Geraldine Bedell, standup comedian Jenny Eclair and the editor of Good Housekeeping, Lindsay Nicholson – chose their favourites.

Befell


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Befall

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such expeditions sometimes meet the fate that befell Louis XVI's flight to Varennes: they can be fatally ruined by long lunches.
  • (2) No mention either this week, of a boat reportedly heading to Christmas Island two days ago , nor what befell the 50 people on board.
  • (3) The tragedy that befell Khyra Ishaq is hard to take.
  • (4) No word yet as to exactly what befell the Dutchman but he was suffering for several kiolmetres and lagging badly.
  • (5) That fate befell Manchester City youth player James Tandy in 2004 when a refreshed Joey Barton mistook his eyelids for a cinderbox and eased a cigar into both of them.
  • (6) He has managed to hold on to his seat in Exeter, avoiding the defeats that befell other Labour MPs in the south outside London.
  • (7) Illness and agony befell Emile and Philomène, but an estimated 1,400 children have been orphaned as a result of either one or two parents dying from Ebola.
  • (8) It’s a fate that also befell Leslie Chew last year, who was arrested and charged with “sedition” over the content of his cartoon strip, called Demon-cratic Singapore .
  • (9) Weekend Update seems to be finding a mid-level groove – nowhere near its high point, but not at the depths that befell the writing after Seth Meyers and his team left the show.
  • (10) Vigilance on the part of the workers in the field, in general, protects from the disasters that befell Thomas Edison's laboratory assistant.
  • (11) ( A similar fate befell Torre David in Caracas , which has now been informally occupied.)
  • (12) What it saves is the lifetime cost of a lost generation, saving benefits, a spike in crime, rough sleeping, mental illness and all that befell the school-leavers of the early 1980s.
  • (13) Ma and his advisers have been carefully studying the Facebook IPO in the hopes of avoiding the pitfalls that befell the share sale.
  • (14) The first thing to note is that Rudd’s economic management did not, in fact, save Australia from the fate that befell other countries.
  • (15) Alluding to concerns about growing sectarianism in the region, Nasrallah said there would be "dangerous retribution" if any harm befell the historic Sayyida Zeinab Shia shrine near Damascus.
  • (16) Lib Dem activists watched their work unravel as similar fates befell the party in Manchester, Leeds, Bolton, Stoke, Telford, Newcastle and Clegg's adopted home city of Sheffield, where he is an MP.
  • (17) Fred Upton, chairman of the energy and commerce committee, said the tragedy that befell Lovelace and others was worsened by the fact that it seemed to be preventable.
  • (18) Like a lot of what befell Young, it could only have happened to a woman.
  • (19) At the mention of Mr Wickham's name, silence befell the room.
  • (20) The BBC said the drama would "show the Nativity from a fresh viewpoint, highlighting how seemingly ordinary people reacted to the extraordinary and miraculous events that befell them".

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