být připraven něco rozjet, začít

1. Just connect the printer to your computer and you are in business. (MED)

2.It remains to be seen whether they will still be in business to take the show to London in April; it looks as if the outcome of the Northern group may rest on the Roses game later in the month. (BNCI)

3. As the House will recall, board members have to be in business currently, rather than retired. (BNCI)

být v plusu, být na tom finančně dobře

1. He said the hospital, though it has occasional cash flow problems, is in the black and employees have been enrolled in a new pension plan in which they, rather than the hospital, decide how to invest the hospital's contribution.(WebCorp)

2. Sales of the album are good, airplay is great, and the company is in the black and looking to sign other artists. "I’m a small fish in a very yuck pond. But I’m on the most radio stations I’ve ever been on." (WebCorp)

3. The group as a whole is in the black only because it has income from an American retailing chain Silo and from financial services and property deals in Britain.

být ve ztrátě, mít deficit, být zadlužen

1. Ten years ago the Alvin Ailey Dance Company was in the red. A decade into Judith Jamison's direction, now it's got the largest budget of any modern dance company and popular and critical success.(WebCorp)

2. This would leave Washington no worse off than in the recent past, when both the on- and off-budget balance was in the red.(WebCorp)

3. They claimed the Post Office was in the red and had enormous losses of £ hundreds of millions every year.(WebCorp)

do toho komu nic není, to se koho netýká

Stop pestering me, it's none of your business!(Cambridge Dictionary)

Tell yourself it is none of your business and behave toward him as you always did. (WebCorp)

And it is none of your business what I think about God. (WebCorp) 

mít zákaz vycházení

The camp was under curfew and food supplies had run out. (WebCorp)

Troops have been conducting house-to-house searches for militants and arresting Palestinian suspects in Jenin, and the town was under curfew for six straight days until the army first let people out of their homes Wednesday. (WebCorp)

At a follow-up meeting in Israel in August, arranged by the Peres Center, at least one Palestinian was unable to attend because her town was under curfew. (WebCorp)

nastartovat (počítač)

Install the program on your hard disk, plug in the dongle, boot up, and you're asked to place the key on the sensor and set up a password. (BNCI)

Instead of having to go through the hoary old DOS prompt when you boot up, you'll go straight into Windows. (BNCI)

Boot up and you're greeted with a friendly introductory screen.(BNCI)

přerušit diplomatické vztahy s někým

Austria-Hungary broke off diplomatic relations and mobilized. (BNCI)

Sri Lanka broke off diplomatic relations with Israel on April 20, 1990, announcing that it would restore them when Israel recognised the PLO, withdrew from the occupied territories and agreed to participate in an international peace conference. (BNCI)

Britain broke off diplomatic relations with the Syrians four years ago after allegations that they'd been involved in trying to below up and Israeli airliner. (BNCI)

vypuknout, začít (válka, boj)

1. War broke out in 1914. Fighting has broken out all over the city.(Cambridge Advanced Dictionary)

2. We got married a month before the war broke out.(Macmillan English Dictionary)

3. The first bombs to fall on any British deaf school happened the day the war broke out at Margate on 3rd September 1939 when a number of incendiary bombs landed in the school grounds. (BNCI)

dosáhnout míru

1. The wall stands outside the building of the United Nations --; an organisation founded after the end of the last world war to try and bring about peace between all the different countries of the world.(BNCI)

2.  Knowing that the more treaties he himself signed, the greater would be the King's suspicion, Rodrigo did his utmost to bring about peace between Moslem lords and Christian princes. (BNCI)

3. As far back as the late fourth century two men had expressed the view that war should be fought in order to bring about peace and order. (BNCI)

svrhnout vládu

1. Oppositions parties are threatening to bring down the government.(MED)

2. Two months later he was able to bring down the Government, and Lord Malmesbury took over as Foreign Secretary in the new Conservative administration.(BNCI)

3. Prime Minister Ashida Hitoshi resigned after he was implicated in a bribery scandal which brought down the government.The party was dissolved in 1950.(WebCorp)

kupovat ve velkém, jako jeden celek, hromadně

1. Avoid extra packaging by buying non-perishable products in large sizes whenever possible. When you buy in bulk your money will be spent on product instead of packaging. A one-pound box uses less packaging, and therefore results in less waste, than two half-pound boxes.(WebCorp)

2. Save time and money by buying in bulk. You can buy in bulk through supermarkets, buying clubs, food cooperatives, farmer's markets, and warehouse.(WebCorp)

3. The office buys paper in bulk to keep down costs.(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

kupovat na úvěr

1. They decided to buy the car on credit.(Cambridge Learner's Dictionary)

2. If you buy on credit, keep a written record of your spending in your wallet.(WebCorp)

3.  Many people who make a good income still get into trouble financially because they buy more than they can afford, buy on credit, and fail to make payments to credit cards. (WebCorp) 

vyhlásit příměří

Two of the world's largest seed companies have called a truce over their 11 pending lawsuits against each other. (Google)

The Provisional IRA called a truce on 26 June 1972. On 7 July they had secret talks in London with the government.(Google)

The Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for last week's Madrid train bombings has called a truce with Spain to give the new government time to withdraw troops from Iraq, a London-based Arabic-language newspaper said Wednesday. (Google)

provést výzkum

After her death, he carried out research showing that there were only two fatal cases in the world, both in the US, directly related to the drug. (BNCI)

SAVE also carried out research in individual historic towns, in some cases professionally, in others with the help of local civic societies. (BNCI)

In both of these areas the investigator has carried out research previously, and consequently interpreting newly available material is not so difficult. (BNCI)

volit

By the middle of the twentieth century, Britain had developed an electoral system the basic characteristics of which have been delineated above: single-member constituencies, first-past-the-post election to determine the winner in each, and each adult citizen having the right to cast a vote. (BNCI)

This should give warning to anyone in Britain preparing to cast a vote tomorrow for proportional representation. (BNCI)

For the deal to go ahead, it must first be approved by 75 per cent of those eligible policyholders who cast a vote --; either at this month's special general meeting in Edinburgh, or by proxy. (BNCI)