Example sentences of "[was/were] prepared [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’ |
| 2 | Can I come with you ? ’ by people who were keen to see what happened and who were prepared to treat it as a spectator sport . |
| 3 | But do you agree that we should put diplomatic pressure that George Bush should , the Europeans should , Douglas Hurd should , and say look guys whatever you do , if it , though were prepared to recognise you as an independent state , do n't take it out on the Russians ? |
| 4 | For the most part these arose from the almost heedless manner in which Christians were prepared to identify themselves with the dominant values of secular Roman society . |
| 5 | The crisis revealed , however , that the king 's war no longer had the wholehearted support of the community , and more ominously , that some members of the nobility were prepared to associate themselves with the commons ' demands for concessions and reforms . |
| 6 | Indeed , many of John 's contemporaries were prepared to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 7 | He was prepared to swear it on the Book . |
| 8 | Anyone who was prepared to submit himself to a debtors ' prison for a token period could apply from The Fleet or the Marshalsea for the help of the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
| 9 | Henry 's anti-papalism was based on the belief that the pope had wrongfully usurped the spiritual and temporal power which had traditionally belonged to the kings of England , and while he therefore rejected the pope 's claim to jurisdiction in England , he was prepared to regard him as the rightful Bishop of Rome . |
| 10 | Solly was prepared to try it in the days when Napes Needles was still ‘ a rattling good ‘ un ’ and you took photos of your mates with plates in a Thornton-Pickard Folding ruby camera . |