Example sentences of "prepared [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is crazy that ( to take the second example ) the Inland Revenue is prepared to treat such a payment as exempt whereas the DSS claims that NICs are due . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But I 'd be prepared to risk that |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | And yet he is prepared to risk all this for the chance to make his city a better place . |
| 6 | Apparently she was not prepared to risk this for the sake of pleading Russell 's cause . |
| 7 | The piece includes a great deal of descriptive colour ; only try it if you feel you can bring something of your own imagination to it , and be prepared to risk some indulgence . |
| 8 | September , when the landscape is still green , can be very nice if you are prepared to risk some rain . |
| 9 | ‘ Come on , let's find out how far he 's prepared to carry this through . ’ |
| 10 | Light was most important and I was prepared to wait all day if necessary to get the right lighting . ’ |
| 11 | Light was most important and I was prepared to wait all day if necessary to get the real lighting . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Bethel explained that the Working Party had not felt that the Council would be prepared to support such radical views , and other Council members supported the report . |
| 14 | Conference , I believe that we can succeed if you are prepared to support this motion and I will leave you with this point . |
| 15 | Be prepared to support these demands ! |
| 16 | The unions were not Prepared to Support any form of " direct action " , despite the resolutions carried at earlier Congresses in favour of the use of strikes for Political ends . |
| 17 | In other words , in return for this act of homage , the King of France was prepared to restore all of his gains while permitting Richard to keep all of his . |
| 18 | Past experience suggests that some governments , at least , may not be prepared to sit this one out . |
| 19 | While the Almighty was prepared to spare that wicked city if fifty righteous men could be found within its walls and haggling induced him to promise pardon if a mere ten righteous men were discovered , the Inland Revenue are willing to discourage saving and to destroy the whole economic system and social structure to prevent five tax avoiders squeezing through a loophole . |
| 20 | However , the general rule was that the closer , the more visible , or the more audible the learner was to the teacher , the fewer teachers were prepared to go all the way with the shocks . |
| 21 | His father says Shirley 's prepared to go all the way . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To answer these questions we must be prepared to go some little way beyond Freud 's Totem and Taboo and seek a more general theory . |
| 24 | Washington even seemed prepared to go some way towards meeting the desire of the USSR to revise the treaties relating to the rights of passage by warships through the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — an issue with a long and complicated history reaching back into tsarist times . |
| 25 | I was not prepared to see that record put in jeopardy . |
| 26 | Many believed that the Liberal Labour alliance was a threat to a system of government built up over centuries and they were not prepared to see this done without at least a clear decision by the electorate . |
| 27 | The Nationwide Building Society felt that they could not increase their investment because it was linked to unchanged valuations and therefore the new ratio of public to private funds had to be higher than before , even though the housing association was prepared to invest some of its own resources . |
| 28 | ‘ Any woman can have a confident and attractive aura if she is prepared to invest some time , energy and a little money into evolving her own personal style ’ . |
| 29 | The only scope for progress was to find harder abrasives , devise more effective tools for applying them and not least to be prepared to invest more time , something which depended on more powerful patronage . |
| 30 | ‘ We would like to follow the European model where the governments seem to be prepared to invest more money in improving the service , ’ he added . |