Example sentences of "[be] [adv] ready [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Now that NDT Systems , Eagle and Vicorp are part of the John Wood Group and employing over 50 people , we are collectively ready to grasp the opportunity to contribute to the Group 's goal of becoming a major international energy service company . ’ |
| 4 | You are now ready to attach the fabric which should have been cut in panels to fit the wall measurements and seamed where necessary to join the lengths . |
| 5 | Having set up the Installation Directory and the LIFESPAN Manager account as described in Sections 1.1 and 1.2.1 , you are now ready to copy the distribution kit onto your VAX . |
| 6 | First , no early separation of the germ line occurs in plants , yet today we are as ready to reject the inheritance of acquired characters in plants as in animals . |
| 7 | I 'm not ready to get the buggy out yet . |
| 8 | Once built , the nests are lined with tightly packed leaves which act as insulation and the hedgehogs are then ready to sleep the winter away , occasionally waking and wandering about on the off chance of finding a meal . |
| 9 | The range and scale of discovery sought is not perhaps strictly relevant , but in practice courts were more ready to allow the use of discovery under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when relatively modest demands were made . |
| 10 | Social investigators were also ready to criticise the management of the household economy and were particularly concerned to establish the degree to which thriftlessness on the part of the wife contributed to poverty . |
| 11 | We were now ready to fit the woodwork , which was about 5mm smaller all round than the opening . |
| 12 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 13 | That said , Olazabal offered little encouragement that he is finally ready to drop the tag of ‘ the great pretender ’ and capture the major championship that his enormous talents deserve . |
| 14 | The first thing that he obviously ma , was made aware of , was that the Lord Jesus is always ready to meet the need of a seeking soul . |
| 15 | He is always ready to meet the need of a seeking soul . |
| 16 | I would like to say in general Mr I think that as a Committee we should welcome this report which does , it really does er has done a very thorough job and ha a a and provides us now with a s understandable framework and and time scale work when you 've got target and when brought forward or shown to any member of the complex that that erm I think provisionally with the backlog of what is now ready to tackle the result onto our and commissioner is grant er , er grant , erm there will be , it will be like an enormous benefits not just in those areas that John has taken us to but in general atmosphere which kind of be very tense and competition and I think we 'll be , be seeing the action in this token er within it will be er target time , erm real pro real progress will be this I think the feeling of that will going , come by will , will , will be a lot of ruling er in this area and maybe even start to er leave the question from er as a result and the signal to the users of our serv , of the services and erm would go out of here in a planned way and in answer to er fairly speedily and you know what or reduce the erm the aggro . |
| 17 | He is now ready to accept the need for air power to be brought into play against the Serbs to enforce the UN no fly zone over Bosnia . |
| 18 | This freedom is a luxury which every society should afford its citizens : as many languages as there are desires — a utopian proposition in that no society is yet ready to admit the plurality of desire . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Even so , Wickham was not ready to shut the door on the possibility . |
| 21 | On Jan. 21 Solanki was quoted as saying that India 's " complicated position " in relation to China and Pakistan , both alleged to be in possession of nuclear weapons , meant that India was not ready to sign the treaty . |
| 22 | He was always ready to flout the company 's regulations , failing to register two alternative versions of his new sterling ( Britannia ) mark , and was criticized by the company for failing to submit plate for assay and hallmarking in 1717 . |
| 23 | Although each of his books has a compact plot and a central , young hero , he was always ready to shift the point of vision from this hero . |
| 24 | Moreover , no ruler had a title longer or more complex than that of the tsar ; and none was more ready to resent the omission of even the smallest part of it . |
| 25 | In Palestinian circles Shehadeh 's proposal was highly controversial , since it dealt directly with the enemy , was implicitly ready to accept the reality of Israel and disregarded the pan-Arab dimension of the Palestine struggle . |
| 26 | He said that maybe I was n't ready to join the Party just yet . |
| 27 | She was n't ready to abandon the argument , though . |
| 28 | She dressed slowly , feeling reluctant to go to the breakfast table , and she was almost ready to leave the room when she was startled by the sound of a light tap on the bedroom door . |