Pick the answer that offers the most accurate and stylish English version. 'I'm afraid that Black Pudding was quite the ... ... thing I've been offered to eat since I arrived in Britain last year.'

Pick the answer that offers the most accurate and stylish English version. Which of the following would be the most persuasive way of emphasising this announcement? 'As presiding Judge at this trial, I would like members of the Jury to ... ... that their verdict should rest upon facts that we shall establish in this Court, and not upon received opinion from certain sectors of the popular media.'

Pick the answer that offers the most accurate and stylish English version. As the fire raged up the building, we could see people frantically waving from the ... ... windows.

Which of these is the LEAST emphatic way of expressing this idea? 'We sometimes fear he hasn't ... ... how to relate ~ sensitively, let alone successfully ~ to a woman.'

Pick the answer that offers the most accurate and stylish English version. Many people think of Edward Lear ... ... as the creator of the Limerick (a slight, but pervasive short form of light narrative verse in just 36 syllables), but he was also a very accomplished landscape painter in oils.

Pick the answer that offers the most accurate and stylish English version. This system will work out, over its working life, to be substantially ... ... than any offered to you by the Big Brands.

Pick the answer that offers the most accurate and stylish English version. This is hardly an enviable position for us to find ourselves in, but filing officially for bankruptcy may well be our ... ...

Pick the answer that offers the most accurate and stylish English version. There are few ... ... experiences to be enjoyed in Britain, than to sit with friends over a nice drink on the front lawn of a pub on a sunny summer's day in one of our ... ... .

Many countries ~ possibly including your own country of origin ~ have fairly long and robust traditions of telling silly jokes about the people of a neighbouring land ... who are held to be examples of extreme stupidity. In the case of mainland Britain, the traditional butt of such jokes were the Irish; the French traditionally said similar things about the Belgians, the Chinese about the Japanese (we believe), etc. For the sake of the story that follows, let's just agree that it was 'Country X'! 'The National Railway Authority of Country X followed-up some research which strongly suggested that in the event of any railway accident, passengers were more likely to become potential casualties while travelling in either the first or last cars of the train (these being more likely to hit, or be hit by, something else along the line). As of next January, they will therefore be abolishing the ... ... carriages on all rail services in Country X.'

Someone who is 'dim' or 'not very bright' (metaphors for low levels of intelligence) may neatly, if perhaps rather offensively be referred to as :