Example sentences of "are prepared [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
| 2 | But we are prepared to give some guidelines or pointers as to the practice and procedure to be adopted when a hearing as to a wasted costs order takes place . |
| 3 | Conference , I believe that we can succeed if you are prepared to support this motion and I will leave you with this point . |
| 4 | As I understand it , Mr Maxwell 's company has approached the Housing Committee and said we are prepared to let these houses be used for homeless families , so it 's a small but significant step in the right direction . |
| 5 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 6 | The currency convertability restrictions threaten to wipe out the country 's domestic base of small resellers unless suppliers opt to extend credit facilities further , but to date there has been no indication that suppliers are prepared to take such steps . |
| 7 | If you are prepared to take fewer flights and welcome the security of confirmed flights , a fixed-route airpass may be best . |
| 8 | Lots of men I know are prepared to take some time ensuring their children 's food is fresh and safe , once they understand the issues . ’ |
| 9 | There would clearly be great value in building further networks of local education authorities and teacher training institutions which have expressed an interest in particular languages , and which are prepared to exchange some of their insights and resources . |
| 10 | But looking at the whole thing from a higher perspective , it seems to me that the Leeds management may be thinking that we are not going to win the championship this season or at least they are prepared to wait another year to have a go . |
| 11 | If a customer wants to spend time deciding on a holiday we are prepared to spend that time . |
| 12 | If a long time is spent teaching pupils how to present work and arguments neatly , insisting on underlined headings , dates , and sharp pencils , there are going to be problems convincing them that rough work is valuable and that you are prepared to spend some time looking at it . |
| 13 | When other Community Governments are prepared to extend those rights to their people , is not it completely wrong for the British Government to refuse to do the same for the British people ? |
| 14 | She says the volunteers who answer the phone are prepared to deal any problem a child contacts them with , no matter how small it may seem . |
| 15 | To do this you must know : what you are capable of , what you want out of a job , and your weak spots so that you are prepared to counter any negative questioning . |
| 16 | Detectives are horrified the men are prepared to use such violence for a comparatively small sum . |
| 17 | Detectives are horrified the men are prepared to use such violence for a comparatively small sum . |
| 18 | ‘ Men with big company cars , big mortgages , big family commitments are prepared to risk all that in order to have control of their own destiny , ’ he said . |
| 19 | September , when the landscape is still green , can be very nice if you are prepared to risk some rain . |
| 20 | erm until some of the people who are putting a lot of pressures on schools to do different things are prepared to resolve some of these contradictions , I think the teachers feel that they 're being continually criticised by different groups for not doing different things , many of which are mutually contradictory , erm and not surprisingly they feel a little defensive in this situation . |
| 21 | Such intricate processing requires a lot of brain power , and we are prepared to devote this because sight is so important to us . |
| 22 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 23 | We have regularly said that we are prepared to put another 1p on the standard rate of income tax to ensure that people are properly trained and skill-trained , so that we can tackle the problems of the 1990s and try to achieve a much more dynamic and effective economy . |
| 24 | Unless we , as legislators , are prepared to treat such circumstances with that degree of seriousness , rather than allowing fines even in the low thousands to be imposed , we are unlikely to secure the safety culture to which North sea workers are , sadly , not accustomed but are certainly entitled . |
| 25 | We are prepared to question some of the cult phrases of the sixties and seventies and the level of involvement they advocated . |
| 26 | Alan Calladine added : ‘ We class ourselves as a working railway museum and are prepared to develop any aspect of the railway scene . |
| 27 | He says that some bank lenders and creditors have already indicated they are prepared to lend more money to the company . |
| 28 | Many practitioners still feel that a normal menstrual blood loss measurement does not affect their management , provided that the patient 's quality of life is affected , despite evidence that patients with normal measurements are prepared to forego any treatment . |
| 29 | The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image . |
| 30 | The pleasure can be even more enhanced if you are prepared to forego some of the geometry accuracy of urban structures and allow your watercolour paper to pay a substantial role in the formation of your image . |