Example sentences of "ready to take [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | João had been out with Fernando for most of the previous night and looked pale and tired , but Maria Iñes said this was all to the good , because it made him look older and readier to take on the responsibility of a wife . |
| 2 | The abrupt cessation of his trading can not but have caused more or less severe dislocation until others were ready to take up the slack , just as Bath became ‘ somewhat decayed ’ after the deaths of three of its clothiers . |
| 3 | Professional restorers , art historians and journalists equipped with variable degrees of real technical expertise are currently all equally ready to take up the cudgels in causes of this kind . |
| 4 | We received a message by telephone that this was fine and that we were to get in touch when we were ready to take up the offer . |
| 5 | Although slightly wounded , says that she is ready to take up the challenge again next year . |
| 6 | David Hirst , Paul Parker and Martin Keown have put their comebacks from injury to the Premier League test and all appear ready to take up the invitation issued by Taylor after last month 's 1-1 draw against Norway . |
| 7 | Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world . |
| 8 | Perfectly groomed from head to toe and with all that assurance , she was ready to take on the world , Arlene thought with satisfaction , for she looked on Paula as her very own creation . |
| 9 | When grandfather died the farmer had allowed my grandmother and her two sons , still in their teens , to stay on in the cottage because he did n't need a new grieve ; he had an unmarried son in the big farmhouse , ready to take on the job . |
| 10 | Now I was ready to take on the guards and he was calming me , rather than me him . |
| 11 | She felt refreshed and renewed , filled with such a healthy glow of well-being that she was ready to take on the world ; and Johnny Latimer with it . |
| 12 | The councils say they 're ready to take on the job . |
| 13 | Changez did n't seem ready to take over the running of Paradise Stores . |
| 14 | It needs an understanding of how all the parts contribute to the whole , so that new elements of collaboration can be introduced as and when appropriate , with the children 's confidence and understanding being developed until they are ready to take over the initiative for themselves . |
| 15 | In a news conference on Nov. 9 , however , the Philippine spokesman Rafael M. Alunan appeared to indicate a softening of the government 's stance by differentiating for the first time between " sovereign control " and " operational control " , noting that Philippine personnel would not be fully ready to take over the bases by 1991 and that US personnel would be needed to operate them under Philippine sovereignty for a transitional period . |
| 16 | Indigenization implies that there are locals , official or private , standing in the wings ready to take over the indigenized companies . |
| 17 | Rachel swung round indignantly from the filing cabinet which she had just unlocked ready to take out the records for that morning 's surgery . |