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Aneurin Bevan

English translation: the name of the school

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English term or phrase:Aneurin Bevan
Selected answer:the name of the school

14:57 Sep 25, 2015
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2015-09-28 15:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Novel
English term or phrase: Aneurin Bevan
I haven't been able to figure out Aneurin Bevan's significance in the following sentence.
(source: A.S. Byatt's Possession)


The wrath of her disappointment had been the instrument of his education, which had taken place in a perpetual rush from site to site of a hastily amalgamated three-school comprehensive, the Aneurin Bevan school, combining Glasdale Old Grammar School, St Thomas à Becket's C of E Secondary School and the Clothiers' Guild Technical Modern School
MuratK.
Türkiye
Local time: 03:14
the name of the school
Explanation:
the school is named after Aneurin Bevan
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Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 02:14
Grading comment
Selected automatically based on peer agreement.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +4the name of the school
Mark Nathan
3 +2see explanation below
DLyons


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
aneurin bevan
the name of the school


Explanation:
the school is named after Aneurin Bevan

Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 02:14
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 88
Grading comment
Selected automatically based on peer agreement.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Danik 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan
11 mins
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
18 hrs
agree  Phong Le
1 day 9 hrs
agree  Tony M
2 days 8 mins
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
aneurin bevan
see explanation below


Explanation:
It's the name of a school which was formed from the three schools the listed.

DLyons
Ireland
Local time: 01:14
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 52
Notes to answerer
Asker: OK. Thanks


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Peter Simon: Exactly, but without 'the' before 'listed'. The reader doesn't have to know who it was named after, but that it was like this.
7 hrs
  -> Thanks Peter. Yes indeed.
agree  Tony M
2 days 7 mins
  -> Thanks Tony.
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