Example sentences of "[was/were] prepared [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those gaping soldiers were prepared to die for the queen , not because they loved their mother , not because they had been drilled in the ideals of patriotism , but simply because their brains and their jaws were built by genes stamped from the master die carried in the queen herself . |
| 2 | At a concluding public rally , attended by over 250,000 people , he declared that the people were prepared to die for the revolution if the United States invaded the country . |
| 3 | At the lower end of the social scale , the dusty rather than the ‘ fit-to-be-dusted ’ classes , people were prepared to encamp at the station for days . |
| 4 | Arrangements were made for her to go to a home specialising in care for people who were motivated to look after themselves , and the staff were prepared to cope with the deafness . |
| 5 | We 'd gotten to the stage where we were selling out venues like the Hammersmith Odeon and none of us were prepared to return to the club circuit , so we quit while we were ahead . |
| 6 | In the fifties it was very run-down and it was possible to buy the glory of a house with a painted ceiling and good stucco if you were prepared to do without the luxury of heating and hot water . |
| 7 | They were prepared to sit by the bedsides of sick neighbours to relieve the burden of their families and allow them to save their energy to cope with the farmwork . |
| 8 | While the leadership of the IFL was evidently opposed to Mosley , they were prepared to co-operate with the rank and file of his organization . |
| 9 | One of the strongest indications of class throughout the world came to be the length of time the travellers were prepared to spend at the station and the quantity of baggage which they had with them when they passed through it . |
| 10 | As one who joined the Leader of the Opposition in voting against the Single European Act , before the right hon. Gentleman became a Euro-fanatic , may I appeal to my right hon. Friend to warn the voters about the huge dangers to the much-improved labour relations of Britain if they were to vote into power any Government who were prepared to pass over the power to wreck our trade union reforms by majority vote in Brussels ? |
| 11 | It was clear to the classical writers that there were tens of thousands of workers who were unemployed and who were prepared to work at the going ( real or money ) wage rate . |
| 12 | He was used to working with crews who knew him and who , like his casts , were prepared to work round the clock to achieve the effects he desired . |
| 13 | In all , 30 companies contributed ; in addition to the 13 questionnaire replies , nine were prepared to speak on the telephone , of a total of 25 called , and eight were visited and interviewed in more detail . |
| 14 | Last night none of the defendants were prepared to speak about the matter . |
| 15 | Erm but one of the reasons that , that we got the audience was , was so that they , they obviously the audience were prepared to pay for the fact that |
| 16 | the bank were prepared to pay for the business to be purchase only on condition that the home , that the family home was then sold and the proceeds were given straight to the bank , so with that eighty thousand pounds of equity in the property and the purchase fund for the business was about twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 17 | He and Shinwell had told the Central Authority at their first meeting in September 1947 that , while general price rises could be ruled out , they were prepared to look at the possibility of controlling demand at peak times by differentially higher prices for peak use or by mechanical load-restricting devices . |
| 18 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 19 | Although railway-building in North America has been described above as ‘ quintessentially capitalist ’ , in fact railway companies were prepared to build to the West only in return for massive inducements . |
| 20 | I was quite sad to hear my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food say that he was prepared to sit in the negotiations for months . |
| 21 | Although the government indicated that it was prepared to negotiate with the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia , it said that it had not renounced the use of force . |
| 22 | He said the killings had shaken some members of Panama 's Defence Force , but that in the aftermath of the uprising , when suspicion of complicity ran wide , no one was prepared to plead for the lives of the coup plotters . |
| 23 | ‘ I was prepared to go to the United States for the most up-to-date expertise , ’ says Clemency . |
| 24 | In order to get that response he was prepared to dispense with the niceties of convention and the formulae of polite language : ‘ from the gut , to the gut . ’ |
| 25 | Clare was prepared to do without the ups of being in love in return for never experiencing the downs . |
| 26 | On the all-important matter of holding a Council he was prepared to wait on the king 's convenience for a long time : he was never one to underestimate the needs of secular government . |
| 27 | He had no idea how long he would have to wait to marry her , but he was prepared to wait for the rest of his life . |
| 28 | It was all she was prepared to say on the subject and he nodded as if he quite expected that . |
| 29 | The new military regime was prepared to compromise on the oil dispute . |
| 30 | Edward for his part had to accommodate himself to political and financial realities , and was prepared to compromise with the commons in return for taxes , though he would not give way on the fundamental issue of the right to choose his own councillors . |