Example sentences of "[be] [adv] prepared [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No politician likes leaving an election campaign in full swing , but Britain 's farmers and fishermen expect me to do the job I was appointed for and I am not prepared to take the risk of measures hostile to the UK getting through because I am not there , ’ said Mr Curry , who is defending a 17,000 Conservative majority . |
| 2 | ‘ Not easily , not quickly , but I am not prepared to abandon the ambition of having a fully working economy , and having a fully working economy means there are jobs available for just about everybody who is looking for a job . ’ |
| 3 | What sort of misguided speech was that ? were they dance about it or trim here , what they 're saying very simply and this is relevant to the people who are listening to us today , is that they are not prepared to restore the cuts made by the government which they have got elected . |
| 4 | We are saying to those councillors , ’ Wo n't pay , ca n't say ’ ; in other words , ’ If you are not prepared to obey the law and pay your rightful contribution to the cost of the local services which , as locally elected representatives , you have a say in providing , it is unjustifiable for you to have any influence , through your votes , on the amount of local tax that is levied in your area . ’ |
| 5 | It is very important indeed to ensure that the staff of G C H Q are not subject to potential conflicts of interest and as I said earlier the Prime Minister and I listened for some considerable time to the s to er to the points put forward by the trade unions to see whether or not that overriding er national objective could be maintained but we were not convinced , we were not convinced that erm the trade unions could overcome those potential conflicts of interest and it behoves ill the party opposite to try and put a different gloss on the fact that we in this country thanks to our legislation , have put harmony in place of strife and we are not prepared to allow the opposition to put that major achievement at risk . |
| 6 | I think by the demonstration this morning that people are not prepared to see the building fall down and I think that , erm if necessary , people will do everything within their power to prevent the erm the contractors moving in . |
| 7 | Moderator between the eligibility of infant bap fo infant baptism and the confirmation service I find myself unclear , what do we do with children who are unbaptised say between the ages of three and twelve , whose parents are not ba themselves church members and who are not prepared to take the promises for them ? |
| 8 | We are not prepared to accept the imposition of other people 's directions on many forms of flexible job opportunities now available in this country . |
| 9 | We are not prepared to accept the fact that women , such as one woman from my own city of Manchester , can make skirts , blouses and trousers and be paid as little as 25p per pair of trousers . |
| 10 | But we are not prepared to change the quality of our estate . |
| 11 | However , long before this immediate question arose , we and our partners — and , I believe , the whole world — made it clear that we are not prepared to recognise the alteration of boundaries by force . |
| 12 | Some denominations and local churches reject data-gathering because they are not prepared to face the truth about themselves . |
| 13 | But unless the staff concerned are enthusiastic about the project , fully understand it , and are thus prepared to give the time and energy to make it work team teaching will be doomed to failure . |
| 14 | Fortunately , the Ndembu are generously prepared to share the secrets of this symbolism with us . |
| 15 | And West Germany of course , has had ten years of massive growth in nuclear power , I do n't hear the Green movement pressing us to imitate that ; they want the end result but they 're not prepared to wield the means . |
| 16 | So one reason [ for reviewing consents ] is it does n't make any difference to the river system ; another is that it means we 're not prepared to follow the thing through on a legal basis . |
| 17 | They 're more prepared to do the dishes or change nappies . |
| 18 | Not unless you 're really prepared to stretch the definition . |
| 19 | Electors are always prepared to criticise the Government in answer to pollsters ' questions , but when the same individuals arrive at the polling booth they simply can not bring themselves to vote Labour into power . |
| 20 | Among those aged 46 or more ( approximately those born before the Second World War ) , the relationship is as it seemed from the bivariate table : the more highly educated are more prepared to break the law . |
| 21 | But among the post-war generations , the relationship has the opposite sign : the less educated are the ones who say they are more prepared to break the law . |
| 22 | If the people concerned seek legal advice before responding , the correspondence and interviews can take months ; but such people are entitled to do so provided they are also prepared to pay the lawyers ' bills which necessarily follow . |
| 23 | I ca n't smell petrol , and I 'm pretty certain she 'd have blown already if she was going to , but I 'm not prepared to take the chance . |
| 24 | I 'm not prepared to take the risk . ’ |
| 25 | The result is quite striking : the richer respondents claim to be more prepared to break the law than the poorer ones , despite their apparent lesser chances of actually breaking it from the conviction statistics . |
| 26 | I do hope we 're not going to extend our current lawyers who we use in this particular issue , erm , whatever this amount of money is , is spent in school and er , to that extent I think we should er be well prepared to foot the bill . |
| 27 | It is evident that certain people , from radically diverse backgrounds and with radically diverse interests , are quite prepared to acknowledge the validity of this claim . |
| 28 | We are fully prepared to accept the cost of a high quality and expanding service . |
| 29 | Listings are then prepared to allow the assessor to undertake the task with the best possible information . |
| 30 | They were only prepared to consider the proposal if a bridge in the outskirts of Mitcham and some road widening were included in the scheme . |