Example sentences of "might be prepared " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was generally understood by the media to mean that the hierarchy would not oppose the introduction of divorce in a future united Ireland , indeed that they might be prepared to budge on the issue even now . |
| 2 | The company has signalled its keenness to sign another two-year deal , and unions have indicated they might be prepared to accede , as long as there is an ‘ inflation-plus ’ element in the second year . |
| 3 | It is understood that Sock Shop directors were in the US yesterday trying to find someone who might be prepared to take over the American end of the operation and continue to run it under the Sock Shop name . |
| 4 | Of course , doctors might be prepared to stretch those definitions in order to bring such cases within diminished responsibility , but that is an unsatisfactory basis on which to reform the law , and it provides the defendant with no legal protection against a murder verdict . |
| 5 | It is remarkable how few candidates one might be prepared to cross over lines of party loyalty to support . |
| 6 | Fulham must find a new ground by the end of next season but there had been indications that they might be prepared to quit their Thames riverside site at the end of this season . |
| 7 | We hope that you enjoy some benefit from your NCT membership and that you might be prepared to give a little bit of time back to the branch occasionally . |
| 8 | We hope that you enjoy some benefit from your NCT membership and that you might be prepared to give a little bit of time back to the branch occasionally . |
| 9 | A friend has told him that the council might be prepared to take the children into voluntary care for a while so that Ahmed can convalesce properly . |
| 10 | DoE might be prepared to provide money for the initial cost of investigating polluted sites . |
| 11 | Maxwell suggested that the government might be prepared to make a grant equal to the amount collected by the refugee organisations . |
| 12 | It is true that an inability to legislate upon certain matters might render a constitution prone to crisis but on others it would be far from necessarily fatal and at least one judge , in a common law country , has recently acceded to the proposition that he might be prepared to disavow the power of the otherwise unlimited New Zealand Parliament to enact law providing , for example , for human torture . |
| 13 | The generic Oriental ‘ identikit ’ guitar which you outlined is a practical compromise package which crams the majority of popular features into a single product at a price which the average semi-pro or amateur guitarist might be prepared to pay . |
| 14 | ‘ I might be prepared to give it a try . ’ |
| 15 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 16 | As he set off from Washington to campaign in Cleveland , Chicago and New York , he hinted strongly that he might be prepared to send American ground troops to join the UN peacekeepers who have gone to Macedonia to try to stop the Balkans war from spreading . |
| 17 | He was cut out of it completely and he might be prepared to talk . ’ |
| 18 | The court might hold that the existence of the default power precludes the tort action ; but if the authority has not just failed to act but has taken positive action , or if it has acted ultra vires , or if it has inflicted injury on the applicant greater than that suffered by other affected parties ( ‘ special damage ’ ) , a court might be prepared to allow a tort action even in the face of a statutory default power . |
| 19 | Playing along with the game , he asked , " And do you know anyone who might be prepared to leave a window open … ? " |
| 20 | But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm . |
| 21 | I tried to think what I might be prepared to do to achieve this and concluded almost anything . |
| 22 | Later , he began to wonder whether , with her brother dead , she might be prepared to tell the police how he had almost certainly murdered his aunt . |
| 23 | In that case , shopkeepers and manufacturers might be prepared to drop their profit margins , absorb the tax and go on selling at the same price . |
| 24 | The British answer was that they would prefer to view the present difficulty in the wider context of the general European refugee situation , but that they might be prepared to consider possible subsequent entry of the Jews to Britain after their return to Germany . |
| 25 | Even if you are not at present a tenant of public landlord but you have a pressing need to move , your local authority might be prepared to nominate you . |
| 26 | He hinted , at least , that he might be prepared to table a Government amendment on Report to cover the possibility of making the sale price known . |
| 27 | ‘ You might be prepared to make an exhibition of yourself , but I 'm afraid I 'm not so uninhibited . |
| 28 | I hoped that he might be prepared to congratulate it on its 30 per cent . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman is asking a question which he knows will receive no answer , because the nature of a deterrent is that it remains uncertain — the nation that has it might be prepared to use it . |
| 30 | James Baker , the US Secretary of State , astonished Israeli officials on May 23 when he announced that the US government might be prepared to discuss Palestinian and Arab demands for a UN observer team in the occupied territories . |