Example sentences of "were prepared [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is instructive in terms of the psychology of science is the willingness with which Kammerer 's detractors were prepared to resort to fraud as an explanation for facts that had been misinterpreted as support for a counter-theory , facts which , at that point , their own theory was insufficiently well developed to account for . |
| 2 | While the General Election remained remote , loyal party members were prepared to flirt with realignment and even to admit that Labour stood no chance of victory if it fought alone . |
| 3 | I wanted to hear from people who were prepared to talk about adultery with stories that would work on television . |
| 4 | This was to ensure they had the correct commitment and were prepared to organize for quality . |
| 5 | The new proposals contained a revised list of the territories the Gruagach were prepared to cede to Reflection in exchange for her daughter but Caspar , who had managed to get a look at these , had told Floy that the Gruagach were only ceding some barren bits of wasteland surrounding the Robemaker 's workshops , the Lake of Dhairbhreach — which nobody in their right minds would want — and a mountain or two . |
| 6 | At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits . |
| 7 | The union had repeated that workers were prepared to return to work using an agreed formula to resolve a grievance over lay-offs but that a return to work would involve workers pursuing individual contractual rights . |
| 8 | There were limits , however , to what the Whigs were prepared to do on behalf of Protestant Dissenters . |
| 9 | The analogy was there to draw between what they were prepared to do at home and what they might contemplate doing out of sight in a subjected territory . |
| 10 | Prussia 's attempt in 1850 to capitalize on Austrian weakness and turn herself into the pre-eminent power in Germany came to nothing when the Austrians made plain that they had recovered their nerve and were prepared to go to war on the matter . |
| 11 | Boroughs within the royal forests were prepared to pay for exemption from their hated authority . |
| 12 | Very few witnesses had been found who were prepared to come to court to repeat their statements in the flesh , but some did and their words were translated first into English and then into German , causing some confusion as to the precise meaning of what they had actually said . |
| 13 | After the Falklands war , one could observe what great efforts relatives of soldiers and sailors killed there were prepared to make in order to visit their graves , and so keep memory alive . |
| 14 | It was certainly the only sort acceptable to the small number of landowners who were prepared to embark upon change . |