Example sentences of "[am/are] prepared [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only those whose prodigious skill gives them leverage for negotiating secure contracts are prepared to forsake higher education for sport . |
| 2 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
| 3 | But we are prepared to give some guidelines or pointers as to the practice and procedure to be adopted when a hearing as to a wasted costs order takes place . |
| 4 | Today , when even Catholic priests are prepared to advocate radical departures from conventional morality , Eliot 's views may appear nostalgically old-fashioned . |
| 5 | Conference , I believe that we can succeed if you are prepared to support this motion and I will leave you with this point . |
| 6 | The writer in us has to know that we are making it a priority , that we are prepared to let other obligations go in order to play with it , nourish it , accord it a central place in our lives . |
| 7 | As I understand it , Mr Maxwell 's company has approached the Housing Committee and said we are prepared to let these houses be used for homeless families , so it 's a small but significant step in the right direction . |
| 8 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 9 | We pray for the next generation of ministers in the church and ask that you will be raising up men and women who are prepared to take pastoral responsibility for your people , as missionaries and as ministers . |
| 10 | The currency convertability restrictions threaten to wipe out the country 's domestic base of small resellers unless suppliers opt to extend credit facilities further , but to date there has been no indication that suppliers are prepared to take such steps . |
| 11 | They both have large planning departments and are prepared to take young people with no previous experience and train them . |
| 12 | If you are prepared to take fewer flights and welcome the security of confirmed flights , a fixed-route airpass may be best . |
| 13 | Lots of men I know are prepared to take some time ensuring their children 's food is fresh and safe , once they understand the issues . ’ |
| 14 | But looking at the whole thing from a higher perspective , it seems to me that the Leeds management may be thinking that we are not going to win the championship this season or at least they are prepared to wait another year to have a go . |
| 15 | they say even though unemployment rates are very high now , people are prepared to wait ten years before they get a job . |
| 16 | If a customer wants to spend time deciding on a holiday we are prepared to spend that time . |
| 17 | If a long time is spent teaching pupils how to present work and arguments neatly , insisting on underlined headings , dates , and sharp pencils , there are going to be problems convincing them that rough work is valuable and that you are prepared to spend some time looking at it . |
| 18 | This expectation is so strong that most congregations are prepared to spend huge sums for the provision and maintenance of an instrument which is , in many cases , the single most valuable asset in the building . |
| 19 | When other Community Governments are prepared to extend those rights to their people , is not it completely wrong for the British Government to refuse to do the same for the British people ? |
| 20 | She says the volunteers who answer the phone are prepared to deal any problem a child contacts them with , no matter how small it may seem . |
| 21 | The style is artificial , which need not be blameworthy ; but the question is how far readers , in their generation , are prepared to tolerate unabashed artifice . |
| 22 | Detectives are horrified the men are prepared to use such violence for a comparatively small sum . |
| 23 | Detectives are horrified the men are prepared to use such violence for a comparatively small sum . |
| 24 | September , when the landscape is still green , can be very nice if you are prepared to risk some rain . |
| 25 | The world is full of unlovely places and we should even be grateful that people are prepared to do important work in uncongenial surroundings like prisons , operating theatres , field hospitals , soap factories , coal-mines , and sewage farms . |
| 26 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 27 | Whatever the outcome , the Government 's willingness to continue pushing through the float during this Parliament shows how ministers are prepared to put political expediency before the interests of the industry . |
| 28 | We have regularly said that we are prepared to put another 1p on the standard rate of income tax to ensure that people are properly trained and skill-trained , so that we can tackle the problems of the 1990s and try to achieve a much more dynamic and effective economy . |
| 29 | Unless we , as legislators , are prepared to treat such circumstances with that degree of seriousness , rather than allowing fines even in the low thousands to be imposed , we are unlikely to secure the safety culture to which North sea workers are , sadly , not accustomed but are certainly entitled . |
| 30 | Alan Calladine added : ‘ We class ourselves as a working railway museum and are prepared to develop any aspect of the railway scene . |