Gd18 Flashcards
We are going to bring them up to the boil
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Grated lemon zest
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Fruits in season
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Apple/cherry blossom
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A chicken nugget
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The meal was largely spent on a question-answer volley
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A corn-thresher
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A pane of glass
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It pains you terribly
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It was spoiling the game to arrest my gaze on this detail
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To bare my soul
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My enthusiasm for the venture was somewhat tempered by my knowledge of the work that would be involved
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I learnt to temper my criticism
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Her concept of beauty fueled a daily sense of self-loathing in front of the mirror
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The painting grips us by the collar
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His ideas enjoyed wide currency during the last century
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He just sat there making banal remarks all evening
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I fashioned a hat for myself out of/from newspaper
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I’ve just grown weary of it
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The word seemed to capture the essence that the word love, weary of overuse, simply could not aspire to
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A rugged face of an explorer
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So tell me, are you seeing anyone
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Pull the ripcord
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The audience was enraptured by the soloist’s performance
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There is now incontestable evidence that the killings did take place
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An indication of what lays submerged
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I remained pensive on the drive home through the evening rush hour
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A strand of hair was trapped in the car headrest
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The oasis complex is never a complete delusion
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He took the bull by the horns
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To appease her fears
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Can I trouble you to key in the marks for me please?
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I would like you to leave, preferably today, but by tomorrow at the latest
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First of all, a heartfelt “thank you” to the Asia Club for organizing this get-together
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A flat profits tax fixed at 16.5 per cent
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An unfettered media
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His imagination is unfettered by the laws of logic
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A unique free trade pact with China called CEPA
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Hong Kong and China are separate customs territories
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Hong Kong is the chief offshore Renminbi centre with the largest pool of Renminbi liquidity outside the Mainland
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Burgeoning private banking sector
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Allow me to share with you a few of key trends that make offshore Renminbi business such an exciting prospect for international finance
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I shall also touch on some areas where
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The pace of change began to quicken significantly
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The source of demand for financial products and services denominated in Renminbi is expanding significantly
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The internationalization of the Renminbi gathers pace
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Increase manyfold
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This is a snapshot of the Renminbi trends from the Hong Kong viewpoint
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Capture the opportunities arising from the wider use of RMB to a fuller extent
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Clients from industry seeking to tap Edinburgh’s resources of expertise
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As a global financial centre in the Asian time zone with free flow of information and capital, a robust regulatory regime and a simple tax system, Hong Kong is the natural nexus to bridge this two-way flow of capital
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Your support is an essential impetus for us to promote Hong Kong as a premier start-up destination in Asia
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To allow budding entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas to would-be angel investors
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We are not accustomed to looking back, basking in successes of days gone by
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We set the bar high for ourselves
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