Example sentences of "[be] ready [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The councils say they 're ready to take on the job . |
| 2 | Drew Porter , head of the Ulster Bank 's Personal Investment Unit in Belfast , said although the two share issues were likely to be very close together , investors may be able to ‘ make a killing ’ on NIE and still be ready to snap up the BT3 opportunity . |
| 3 | She could only be ready to pick up the pieces if and when required . |
| 4 | When no time is stipulated and it is for the buyer to collect , the seller must be ready to hand over the goods ( against payment ) to the buyer on demand ( provided made at a reasonable hour , section 29(5) ) at any time after the making of the contract . |
| 5 | Once the parties have agreed terms and the first drafts of the scheme documents are prepared , the parties will be ready to announce publicly the proposed takeover . |
| 6 | The abrupt cessation of his trading can not but have caused more or less severe dislocation until others were ready to take up the slack , just as Bath became ‘ somewhat decayed ’ after the deaths of three of its clothiers . |
| 7 | We received a message by telephone that this was fine and that we were to get in touch when we were ready to take up the offer . |
| 8 | And , along with their male counterparts , they were ready to carry out the purpose of the meeting which , in the words of Douglas Kinnaird of PA Consulting , brought in as one of the UK 's top headhunters to chair it , was ‘ not to provide answers but raise comments , views — even whether or not it is a concern ? — and pick out perhaps one or two opportunities . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't see how anybody can pick up a guitar nowadays and not give some credit to Jimi Hendrix because , at the time — people do n't remember this — but at the time he came out , people were ready to give up the guitar and go onto other instruments . |
| 10 | feeling as it were ready to come up the way you were swallowing it you could feel it . |
| 11 | Although slightly wounded , says that she is ready to take up the challenge again next year . |
| 12 | When a story is ready to go out the executive will be able to pick out those categories which are relevant to the material and then go through these sections to handpick those journalists who will really be able to use material . |
| 13 | Los Angeles trucker and sometime pugilist Philo Beddoe is ready to give up the fight game — until gambling mobster James Beekman ( Harry Guardino ) , who is looking for a match for his champion Jack Wilson , persuades him to change his mind . |
| 14 | On March 1 the Libyan Secretary for Foreign Affairs , Ibrahim Bishari , said after a meeting in Cairo with the Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev that Libya " is ready to hand over the two suspects for trial in front of a neutral court in any neutral country " . |
| 15 | It needs an understanding of how all the parts contribute to the whole , so that new elements of collaboration can be introduced as and when appropriate , with the children 's confidence and understanding being developed until they are ready to take over the initiative for themselves . |
| 16 | One leading umpire told me : ‘ At last it seems the Board are ready to back up the umpires in this matter . ’ |
| 17 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 18 | ‘ We need to learn how to break through this ‘ barrier of inhibition ’ before we are ready to face fully the challenge of AIDS . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It is only with a ceasefire that it will be possible to save the traumatised population of Angola , and the United Nations are ready to help once the hostilities cease , ’ said Joao Lins de Albuquerque , spokesman for the UN representative , Margaret Anstee . |
| 20 | Nutty rode into the warehouse to see if it was ready , and Hoomey followed her , towing Bones , who was ready to go wherever the food sacks were going . |
| 21 | Perfectly groomed from head to toe and with all that assurance , she was ready to take on the world , Arlene thought with satisfaction , for she looked on Paula as her very own creation . |
| 22 | Now I was ready to take on the guards and he was calming me , rather than me him . |
| 23 | She felt refreshed and renewed , filled with such a healthy glow of well-being that she was ready to take on the world ; and Johnny Latimer with it . |