Example sentences of "[adv] prepared [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 2 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 3 | Customers are no longer prepared to wait for several months for their chosen pattern . |
| 4 | I am just not prepared to wait for the green shoots of recovery . ’ |
| 5 | The laird of Balfunning wanted a tide waiter 's place for his son , but Buchanan was clearly not prepared to settle for promises , for he ‘ insists that he may see his son 's commision before the election ’ . |
| 6 | Not prepared to settle for this result , Gorbachev renominated Yanayev . |
| 7 | This spring , however , there really are a few green shoots of recovery , and in a more confident climate , where people are once again prepared to plan for the long term , they could blossom rapidly . |