Example sentences of "was prepared [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Roger was prepared to co-operate with the subsequent regime of Simon of Montfort — in December 1264 he helped to arrange a temporary settlement with the Marcher barons — but he was not one of the bishops suspended from office after the battle of Evesham . |
| 3 | At the end of August the Soviet authorities eased restrictions on Japanese visits to family graves on Etorofu , the most militarily sensitive and least accessible of the four islands , and in September the Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visited Japan and suggested that his government was prepared to negotiate over the Northern Territories . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Last night 's meeting , involving banking advisers for both GM and Jaguar , was to examine whether GM was prepared to bid at the inflated share price . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I was prepared to go to the United States for the most up-to-date expertise , ’ says Clemency . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Clare was prepared to do without the ups of being in love in return for never experiencing the downs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was all she was prepared to say on the subject and he nodded as if he quite expected that . |
| 13 | The new military regime was prepared to compromise on the oil dispute . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | John Lindsay , Scottish vice-chairman , said CIPFA was delighted that Mr Lang was prepared to look at the figures again . |
| 16 | The employers did however wish to keep the door open for the future , and proposed a ban of five years on women entrants — something which the union was prepared to accept in the hope that " natural reductions " over this period would leave the men in a commanding position . |
| 17 | Christopher Chope , the environment minister , disclosed in May that the Government was prepared to contribute to the professional advice costs of management buyout teams to a maximum of £132,000 . |
| 18 | Neither side was prepared to comment on the suggestion , but given IBM 's surplus manufacturing capacity , such a deal would be good sense . |
| 19 | Neither side was prepared to comment on the suggestion , but given IBM 's surplus manufacturing capacity , such a deal would be good sense . |
| 20 | No-one from the club was prepared to comment on the demonstration but an insider said a board meeting is due to be held on Tuesday . |