Example sentences of "[was/were] prepared [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesser officials sensed that their superiors were prepared to entertain criticism of the conduct of the empire 's affairs and submitted devastating analyses of the particular fields of administration for which they were responsible . |
| 2 | A condition of the setting up of the Executive was that tri-partite talks should be held between the Westminster and Dublin governments and those Northern Ireland parties which were prepared to take part in the Executive . |
| 3 | " If I were prepared to take advice about the way I run my Department from anyone , it would n't be a third-rate paper fetishist with a second-rate degree , who does n't know the difference between scientific proof and intuition . " |
| 4 | The big show-piece cinemas were built to pull in the fashionable trade but they were not designed for the exclusive use of a social elite ; rather they were provided for all those groups who were prepared to pay money for the movie entertainment that was being provided as part of the delights offered by the down-town city . |
| 5 | Social democratic policies of state intervention and Ostpolitik were now in favour with the electorate , especially among young people and , after the liberal reforms at the Second Vatican Council , even Roman Catholic voters were prepared to lend support to the SPD . |
| 6 | By the early nineteenth century even an Anglican clergyman was prepared to give credit to the Methodists for the fact that in Cornwall there were no more " desperate wrestling matches … and inhuman cockfights " and fewer " riotous revellings " . |
| 7 | He said that his government was prepared to share power with the Hutu majority , who comprised 85 per cent of the population . |
| 8 | By early April Henry , concerned above all to secure his family settlement , was prepared to make restitution to the Poitevins in order to salvage it . |
| 9 | James Williamson and Partners as the employer was prepared to meet part of the extra travel costs . |