- současné události

1. The hissing cousins of Monday night current affairs coverage, rivals World In Action (Granada) and Panorama (BBC 1) were both in impressive form. BNC

2. News and current affairs will remain a no-go zone for sponsors. BNC

3. Bids for the channel, which will be funded by advertising and possibly subscription, must include proposals for national and international news, current affairs, children's and religious programmes. BNC

- vyslovená lež

1. His blend of smears, half truths and downright lies ruined many careers in government and the professions. BNC

2. It wouldn't have been a downright lie either, she thought wretchedly. Wasps

3. The story is Gordian in its complexity, but no Alexander seems available to cut through the tangle of claims, counter-claims, and downright lies. BNC

- (celo)roční předplatné

1. I happily pay my yearly subscription just to read Roger Angell's occasional essays on baseball. BNC

2. Each issue of the magazine costs £1 or £12 yearly subscription. BNC

3. I too believe that the subscriptions are not in keeping with today's prices and am prepared to double my yearly subscription from £6 to £12. BNC

- nepřesvědčivý argument

1. Kanfer's assertion that words are, in the end, worth more than the 'legitimate'; social grievances of feminists is, to say the least, a weak and unconvincing argument. BNC

2. The 1966 official report into his subsequent escape has some incredibly tedious and unconvincing arguments as to why Blake was not moved to a high, or at least a higher, security prison such as Birmingham. BNC

3. In an unconvincing argument, the conclusion does not follow from the premises. WebC

- nepravdivé tvrzení

1.  Hence the company will not be estopped in the example given above; it has not made any false statement. BNC

2. This was an entirely false statement, obviously damaging to a thriving professional musician. BNC

3. In November 1989 Secord had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making a false statement to congressional investigators by denying that he knew that funds from the Iran-contra operation had been used to instal a security system at the house of Oliver North.  BNC

- hojně čtený, rozšířený

1. Local newspapers are widely read and relatively cheap to advertise in. BNC

2. Editorial comment will be widely read and taken seriously, whilst favourable or unfavourable references to supplier companies tend to be spotted and remembered in the trade. WebC

3. Navy News is widely read both inside and outside the service and achieved a circulation of 100,000 in the mid-1980s. BNC

- vylíčit pozadí

1. It would report to the Commission and the role of the European environment agency would be to collect statistics and provide background information on decisions to be made. BNC

2. In documentary-style demonstration material the commentary is used to provide background information. BNC

3. Hidden behind a shrine-like structure are two touch-screen video programmes, designed to introduce visitors to Korean daily life as well as to provide background information on the more important exhibits. BNC

- tiskové prohlášení

1. Baroness Hooper, the Government's junior health spokeswoman, put her name to a press release which effectively said people could eat sugar without worry. BNC

2. Every press release should include a quotable, provocative statement from an officer or committee member of the organization involved. BNC

3. The media or press release is one of the basic communication tools of any media relations programme. Wasps

- poslední zprávy

1. We'll also be going live to Malvern for the latest news from the scene. BNC

2. Finally, we would like to keep you informed about our work by sending you our latest news every quarter. BNC

3. And the latest news on the travellers movements is that a convoy is still moving along the A-forty-six between Cheltenham and Stroud. BNC

- přinášet zprávy

1. The early sporting papers such as Bell's Life in London existed to give news of forthcoming events and descriptions of recent ones mostly races and prize-fights. Wasps

2. While as early as Elizabethan times crime chap-books were published to give news about recent crimes, Wagner suggests that it was only toward the end of the seventeenth century that a diverse crime literature appeared. BNC

3. He reprinted articles from other publications, often in weekly parts; translated papers such as those of Mendeleev; and gave news of industrial developments and of exhibitions; he had also a lively correspondence section. BNC

- hlavní redakce

1.  I am deeply appreciative of the input to BNC which came from your partnership's head office, and much impressed by the quality of the documentation submitted. BNC

2. Head Office rent was nearly three months overdue, the rates were in arrears, the staff had not been paid and the general president was stranded in New York for lack of funds. BNC

3. He also saw the Bedale office downgraded to a sub-office, the head office for the district concentrated at Darlington and most of the staff records kept at Middlesbrough. BNC

- společenská rubrika

1. He decided to use the letter; the editor of his gossip column astutely elected to buy himself into the good graces of Buckingham Palace by informing their Press Secretary. BNC

2. But that was before she had met Nathan Bryce, when this complex, attractive, abrasive man was still simply a name and a photograph in a gossip column. BNC

3. Holly was wrong about Wickham's reaction to the gossip column story about his wife. BNC

- hovořit spatra, bez přípravy

1. Lahoud was forced to speak off the cuff at the session because Assad did not give him back his speech in time for his address. WebC

2. Your ability to speak off the cuff is a critical component for effective communication. WebC

3. At Toastmasters, Impromptu Speaking is the ability to speak off the cuff, without preparation and without notes. WebC

- mít ostrý jazyk

1.  He knows he has a ready tongue and a facile pen, and on these he relies to carry him safely through the mazes of unreason. WebC

2. In Warsaw they said—and in these cases diplomacy has a ready tongue, especially when it comes to lies—that they knew nothing of these bands. WebC

3. Whoever assumes the post must be a n "able person" who is smooth and slick, has a ready tongue and can deal with all people at a feast. WebC

- lovit/shánět informace

1. In a sort of roundabout way, he was fishing for information about her habits, and attitude to boys. BNC

2. Those who give the impression that they are fishing for information; they may be looking for a recommendation for somebody else who may be suitable to approach. BNC

3. The natural place for a person to fish for information about an unknown word is in a dictionary. BNC