Example sentences of "ready [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Laird of Quarrel did not have the slightest intention of sharing the spoils of office with Craigbarnet , but he was unlikely to get anywhere near the office without strong interest , and those upon whom he relied were ready to see the wisdom of returning to the old practice of sharing the office . |
| 2 | And eventually , Guinness as we know it , rich subtle and dark , is ready to see the light of day . |
| 3 | Beetles that have at least a portion of the adult population overwintering , carry some Laboulbeniales through the winter ; when the new adults emerge , the old , infected ones are ready to carry the infection to them . |
| 4 | Sparhawk , just back from questing in the Elenium , ready to claim the kingdom and woo the girl , discovers that his creator David Eddings does n't give him much time to breathe , and he 's off again : the A format of Domes of Fire ( Grafton , £4.99 ) is out this month — stay tuned for further instalments . |
| 5 | An uncle appears as nearest agnate , ready to claim the estate on intestacy ; but the trustee claims the estate for his own , since the intended beneficiary has died . |
| 6 | The police were dragging out the screens from their van , ready to enclose the scene of crime . |
| 7 | He has already cut the wax into six portions , plus a couple of spares , and flattened it out ready to enclose the paper scrolls . |
| 8 | Slater and Gearing ( 1988 ) give the following quotation from Samuel Johnson , written in the eighteenth century , to illustrate their argument that we are too ready to ascribe the label demented to older people . |
| 9 | The Egyptians , while insisting that they do not speak for the Palestinians , appear ready to fudge the principle of PLO selection of the Palestinian delegation to ensure Israeli participation . |
| 10 | The Egyptians , while insisting that they do not speak for the Palestinians , appear ready to fudge the principle of PLO selection of the Palestinian delegation to ensure Israeli participation . |
| 11 | At last , Alice was ready to hit the ball with the flamingo 's head . |
| 12 | Now the formula one grand prix circus is getting ready to hit the road for another season … first race is in South Africa in five weeks time … what 's new … is it going to be a head to head between Mansell and Senna … |
| 13 | ‘ Ready to hit the night spots , eh ? ’ the cabby continued . |
| 14 | READY to hit the exhibition trail is BNFL 's new , purpose-built Mobile Exhibition Unit . |
| 15 | You 've got a lot of greasepaint to get through before they 're ready to hit the stage . ’ |
| 16 | So the Collector had arranged that the giant Sikh , Hookum Singh , should be at his side in the most central part of the Residency ready to wield the Church bell which had been toppled from its tower earlier in the siege and which only he was strong enough to lift . |
| 17 | Taylor ready to wield the axe |
| 18 | However , at a departmental or agency level technocrats are typically organizational and policy imperialists , ever ready to promote the expansion of their budgets , the restructuring of state organization in their favour , the pursuit of professional fashions , or the creation of new state and society clienteles . |
| 19 | Eleven ministers were ready to support the reduction in unemployment payments ; ten were not . |
| 20 | Curve the robot 's left arm so that it is ready to support the candle . |
| 21 | The local fishermen alleged that the dolphins were a threat to the local fishing industry , and the Japanese Government was only too ready to support the belief . |
| 22 | Since February , United Nations military and civilian personnel , who will make up the UNTAG ( United Nations Transitional Assistance Group ) peacekeeping forces , have been arriving in the country ready to monitor the ceasefire and elections . |
| 23 | Time wasted can not be recovered , so it is crucial that we have a system designed and ready to implement the moment that any colliery closes . |
| 24 | It is nonsense to claim — as one or two Opposition Members have — that councils will not be ready to implement the tax in 1993 . |
| 25 | With every player in the Whaddon team a potential striker , we tend to concentrate on defence but are always ready to spot the half chance to score a breakaway goal . |
| 26 | Whether it is a spur of useless stem which does not , can not , heal quickly , or a bad cut from blunt secateurs , disease spores are ever ready to accept the invitation of a door carelessly left open . |
| 27 | Although Attlee and Greenwood were ready to accept the invitation , they did not do so at once but made sure that both the National Executive and the annual Conference , which were conveniently meeting at the same time , it being the Whit weekend , were fully consulted and in agreement with their acceptance of office . |
| 28 | By the end of the war the British public seemed ready to accept the notion of planning as a State activity , and warmed to the particular promise of town planning . |
| 29 | This , however , was too much for the Government and , using the excuse that public opinion was not yet ready to accept the protection of many unpopular modern buildings , Lord Caithness , the Minister of State for the Environment , arbitrarily whittled down English Heritage 's list to 18 buildings - excluding Bankside — although it represented a more traditional approach in the Fifties to the now-unfashionable Modern Movement . |
| 30 | There can be little doubt that the great majority of the population were ready to accept the return of Anglicanism and eager to participate in the services outlined in the revised Prayer Book of 1662 . |