Example sentences of "prepared [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Derek Alun-Jones , Ferranti 's chairman , is expected to postpone the annual meeting for a second time so that revised accounts can be prepared to include the effect of the £185m International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 2 | The social worker or counsellor should be prepared to include the role of health co-ordinator , holding the threads of the various aspects of health care which can get confusing and complex . |
| 3 | As soon as he was out of uniform , Connor applied to take over the management of the public-house from his parents — Mam and Da were getting on in years , and Da was n't a well man — but the Brewery were not prepared to lease the pub to a bachelor . |
| 4 | On Nov. 9 the BJP 's national executive , meeting in Bhubaneswar , Orissa , backed the VHP 's call , saying that it was prepared to risk the dismissal of the BJP state government in Uttar Pradesh . |
| 5 | In 1971 it was rescued by Rupert Murdoch , who alone was prepared to risk the capital to keep it afloat . |
| 6 | It 's an all British car erm except for the Japanese tape deck , and the makers believe there are enough people around who still want to drive with the top down and the wind in their hair , people who are prepared to risk the weather , as well as an overdraft , to get behind the wheel of a Healey again . |
| 7 | Well I make a proposal that we also give them notice that at the end of this year , we will not be prepared to continue the lease on the current licence . |
| 8 | So unless you 're prepared to network the program , or invest in a colour printer , people will only be able to prioritize tasks if they see the schedule on your screen . |
| 9 | If pub owners were prepared to emphasise the interest of genuine historic features , regardless of period , then this type of fakery , which disappoints or sadly deceives the customer in search of the traditional pub and irreparably removes much of a building 's interest for future generations , could be avoided . |
| 10 | Mrs Thatcher , he considered , was almost as bad as Mr Major , since she was prepared to support the man who signed the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 11 | In fact , there was only a small nucleus of non-party men who were prepared to support the Court on all occasions — men such as the Secretary of War , William Blathwayt , or Treasury Secretary , William Lowndes , who were essentially civil servants . |
| 12 | Whether the investors are prepared to support the migration to software remains uncertain . |
| 13 | I asked him if he would be prepared to support the Government 's privatisation proposals , and he said : ’ I should be happy to do so , provided that the general public can apply for shares . ’ |
| 14 | Present at that meeting was Walid Maroni , officially an Iraqi member of the UN press corps , who told them that his government was prepared to support the CLAO financially as well as in other ways . |
| 15 | Unless central government is prepared to support the school more firmly , LSHTM will accelerate into a financial death spiral . |
| 16 | The last sentence refers to an earlier conversation between Green and Hickson in which the latter had claimed that the Cambridgeshire LEA would not be prepared to support the work of the District , whereas the Board had been offered a grant of £100 for 1931–32 and the prospect of increased grant-aid in subsequent years . |
| 17 | Moreover , the war intensified factional disputes as socialists divided between ‘ defencists ’ who were prepared to support the war effort and ‘ internationalists ’ , among whom Lenin was most uncompromising , who condemned it . |
| 18 | Some , disregarding their oaths , favoured the election of the king of France , Philip Augustus ; others were prepared to support the candidature of King Richard I of England . |
| 19 | It was an immensely brave step for President Yeltsin to take , and on that basis I believe that it is right for the United Kingdom to change its policy on a rouble stabilisation fund — as an indication that we are prepared to support the reform programme that is now in place . |
| 20 | Shevardnadze in a strong speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 25 characterized Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait as " an act of terrorism against the nascent new world order " , and , apparently going further than Gorbachev had suggested at Helsinki [ see above ] , stated that the Soviet Union was prepared to support the use of force against Iraq , in a UN framework , if the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait continued ; on Sept. 30 he confirmed Soviet willingness to join a UN force if necessary . |
| 21 | Until comparatively recently this hope looked greatly at odds with the realities of international law which was prepared to acknowledge the sovereignty and hence the legality of states whose boundaries or existence are the result of force , uphold treaties imposed by coercion , and in general allow that war is an international sphere . |
| 22 | It is evident that certain people , from radically diverse backgrounds and with radically diverse interests , are quite prepared to acknowledge the validity of this claim . |
| 23 | I do not for my part find the objections in principle to be strong and I would certainly be prepared to agree the rule should no longer be adhered to were it not for the practical consideration to which I have referred and which my noble and learned friend agrees to be of real substance . |
| 24 | I need say no more , except to underline the naivety of those who are prepared to champion the humanism of Marx in his attack on capitalism without recognising the inhumanism of Marx in proposing the socialist solution . |
| 25 | A new and controversial question will find out how many couples of the same sex are partners ( or , more accurately , how many are prepared to report the fact ) . |
| 26 | Soviet leaders were prepared to confirm the neutrality of Cambodia and Laos in this way . |
| 27 | But if you are prepared to spare the time , settle down in an armchair and explore among the oldies in a good descriptive catalogue like David Austin 's Handbook of Roses ( see Bibliography ) , who knows what nuggets of gold you might find to fit into your garden ? |
| 28 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 29 | I think by the demonstration this morning that people are not prepared to see the building fall down and I think that , erm if necessary , people will do everything within their power to prevent the erm the contractors moving in . |
| 30 | The West must , unfortunately , be prepared to see the carve-up of Bosnia and come to terms with a far smaller country . |