Beef:
1. Sweden is beefing up its military presence in the Baltic Sea amid concerns over increased Russian activity in the region and heightened tensions in Belarus following a disputed election.
Beeline:
2. The world's biggest makers of superbikes are making a beeline to India, where young, moneyed consumers are lapping them up.
Befall:
3. Some particularly forward-looking municipalities have chosen to look at the tragedy that befell them as an opportunity and have radically rethought the very foundations of their communities.
Beforehand:
4.Although, during the course of negotiations for the organization of such a technical conference, the U.S.S.R. attempted to pressure the United States into committing itself beforehand to a cessation of nuclear-weapons testing as the 'concrete aim' of the talks, Washington held firm in its refusal to discuss anything but controls.
Beg:
5. Investors may be betting oil glut will end soon, but crude traders beg to differ.
6. Foley added that any progress in phase one of a trade deal begs the question of a second phase, as the first leaves a lot of “unfinished business”.
Beggar:
7. In a conflict where 140,000 people have been killed, including more than 7,000 children, while 250,000 civilians are still trapped in besieged communities, it must beggar belief to those unused to the geopolitics of the United Nations that a proposed resolution boosting humanitarian relief should be a matter of angry contention.
Begging bowl:
8. Since the Middle Ages, there have been better ways to guarantee that finance is in place for unexpected events than bringing out the begging bowls.
To begin with:
9. To begin with, the ratio between attackers and defenders was roughly the same.
Beginnings:
10.Panasonic’s biggest earning segments are appliances, such as washing machines and refrigerators, and the division it dubs “eco solutions”, which makes light fixtures, toilets, ceiling fans and other household fittings that hark back to the company’s beginnings in 1908 making electrical extension sockets.
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