Sentence examples for this pretence will be from inspiring English sources

This pretence will be put to the test on January 28th, when a referendum will be held on legalising gambling in web shops, as well as on a separate proposal to set up a national lottery.The well-funded campaign supporting the initiative has been distributing posters and T-shirts.

Chris Huhne's admission that the green investment bank is likely to be no more than a "green bonds" fund not only jeopardises the future of Britain's renewable energy industry and climate change targets, it will also finally lay to rest any pretence that this will be "the greenest government ever".

But there is no longer even a pretence that they will be able to build the sort of close friendship that was eventually formed by such predecessors as Gerhard Schröder and Jacques Chirac, or Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand.Hence the glimmering in London of a new role for Britain.

"Girls will be admitted to hospital on the pretence that they are ill – and then FGM will be performed," she said.

It will be harder to maintain the pretence of good relations with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states because of exposure of their fear of Tehran.

The pretence that anyone else will change a loo roll or put out the trash will be gone.

The pretence that anyone else will change a loo roll or put out the rubbish will be gone.

The same faces will be back in power with the same political spins, but new pretences about who are and aren't their friends.

Both will be able to call themselves "Anglican" but there will no longer be any pretence that this involves a common discipline or doctrine.

But now it is this pretence that is a lie.

Speak if this be pretence!" is just one of the many choice phrases that, somehow, this assured cast is able to make sound natural.