suggesting some course of action is very much easier than actually carrying it out

Finding the perfect English house was easier said than done.  BNCI

All these behavioural skills fall into the easier said than done category but they are all learnable techniques that can be mastered with practice.  BNCI

 Like practically everything in business this is easier said than done, as the plethora of books, theories, advice and consultants testify.  BNCI

take back what one has previously said was true, certain

 “It seems a little doubtful whether snooker as a spectator game is sufficiently popular to warrant the successful promotion of such an event,” responded the miffed secretary of the Billiards Association and Control Council … but it is not recorded whether he finally ate his words. WebC

This year he ate his words when his company re-entered the hosted market.  WebC

At 6.13pm on Wednesday, he ate his words, with a brief resignation speech.  WebC

základní škola, obvykle pro děti od 5 do 11

Like my contemporaries I first attended an elementary school. BNC

I moved from elementary school to grammar school when I was twelve. BNC

William Forster ´s Education Bill of 1870 established in Britain the system of elementary schools for all. BNC

be missed, not be observed or noticed

She was intuitive and had the uncanny ability to be where things were happening and, nothing escaped her attention. WebC

Since the subject has been introduced from the current session only, it seems to have escaped her attention.  WebC

That Jim had money had not escaped her attention, and while she tried to think that it didn't matter, sometimes she wondered what it might be like to have a rich husband.  WebC

one can improve, is improving, one´s gradually over a period of time by means of constant self-examination

Most of all, use this book to celebrate words every day in every way.  WebC

US SAILING must support them. We should not forget this big picture as we work on initiatives to get better every day in every way. WebC

Do whatever you can every day, in every way, to provide world-class service.  WebC

even somebody who is still at scholl has learnt it already, and it therefore hardly needs repeating

As every schoolboy knows, Richard Hannay saves the day.  BNCI

They belong to the British Museum, which bought them in 1816 from Lord Elgin, as every schoolboy knows.  BNCI

take all the ordinary and normal precautions in a situation with some possibility of danger

So the crucial question is whether, if the basic valuation is produced by an employee of a building society, any failure to exercise due care and skill can constitute maladministration.  BNCI

If you solve the field problem and exercise due care in getting the signs right, you will find that the induced voltage is such as to oppose the voltage that created it.  BNCI

 The plaintiff sued the defendants for breach of contract to exercise due care in giving him financial advice.  BNCI

do sth with the awareness that one is entitled to do it

It has been said more than once in the decided cases that section 7(4) cannot receive different constructions according to whether resort to the subsection arises for one of the reasons under section 7(3) or because the driver exercises his right to claim to have his breath specimen replaced under section 8(2).  BNCI

When the seller exercises his right of resale --; whether under subsection (3) or under subsection (4), the contract with the first buyer is thereby rescinded.  BNCI

It also applies where the buyer exercises his right to reject the goods and treat the contract as repudiated because of a breach of condition.  BNCI

destroy a basis of what is believed or accepted by many people

And now, it's time to explode a myth, unearth the truth, drive home a point, flush out the little rascal, expose, spell out, elucidate and unravel the mystery...  WebC

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them." WebC

Every so often commentators come clean with the public and explode a myth that they and their colleagues have been spending millions of dollars and years and years to create. WebC

verifiable information, or an account of sth, that has really happened, as contrasted with imagined or invented incidents

The historic detail in the Cadfael books is so accurate, and the fact and fiction so skilfully mingled, that many people believe that Brother Cadfael was a real figure.  BNCI

In facing such a directly political proposal, mainstream reviews reverted to some tried and trusted critical tools in order to reaffirm the gap between fact and fiction, politics and culture, that the film is attempting to narrow.  BNCI

Over the centuries, the stories have been altered until the boundaries of fact and fiction have been irrevocably obscured but it is wrong to be too quickly dismissive when judging the sources of nursery rhymes or other traditional tales.  BNCI

(items of) precise information, esp. in spoken or unspoken contrast with ideas, theories or generalized statements

If you need to give an interview or a presentation about diabetes, or if you need to lobby on behalf of people with diabetes, you will need some facts and figures to support your argument. WebC

This is not an Olympic site (either in size or in relation to sports), but it does contain some interesting facts and figures that might help to understand the shape of future Olympic Games and the world in which we live.  WebC

These tables, charts, and maps include facts and figures about source reduction, recycling, and disposal.  WebC

be less than a required, satisfactory or desired standard

Plan to save Northwest salmon falls short, report says... WebC

Park Police budget request falls short of chief's estimate. WebC

Iraq's daily oil output falls short of Cheney's predictions.
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act with strong commitment to sth

So in contrast to the mediator, who fears and avoids conflict, the followers of Jesus are fully equipped to fight the good fight of faith.  BNCI

Imagine him appealing to America to come in quickly, fight the good fight with us, shoulder to shoulder.  BNCI

What about that man who kept buying copies of Fight the Good Fight by Angela Truebridge? BNCI

do as sb else has done

This friend was the first person he heard pray spontaneously (without reading out of a prayer book) and Richard soon learned to follow his example.  BNCI

 Many of the teachers began acting the same way, believing the Headmaster might punish them too if they didn't follow his example.  BNCI

It did the rector's heart good to see a man among his small flock, and he hoped that others might follow his example.  BNCI

a situation, subject, remark, event that provides material fro thought that requires to be carefully considered

At the very least, the exhibition provides food for thought: as the 21st century nears, do we really want architecture that looks as if it was built in the 18th?  bNCI

As for Mozart himself, who had married the sister of the woman he loved, the subject of Cosi must surely have given him food for thought.  BNCI

His study certainly provides food for thought, though.  BNCI