Example sentences of "been prepared [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts have however been prepared to confine the visitor to his proper role as a judge of the internal affairs of the foundation by the use of the writs of prohibition and mandamus . |
| 2 | It must be said , however , that it is not only the obviously authoritarian Third World regimes , desperate for FDI , that have sometimes been prepared to sacrifice the interests of their workers in order to insure the jobs created by the TNCs . |
| 3 | Unless someone had been prepared to take the risk , she might have spent her childhood in institutions . |
| 4 | For Jesus to have been accepted as the Messiah , he must necessarily have been prepared to wield the liberator 's sword . |
| 5 | Scott J said that the distinction lay in whether the parties would have been prepared to allow the matter to be decided on the basis of views which had not been formulated . |
| 6 | She had been prepared to leave the restaurant at once , but Nathan had insisted they finish their meal . |
| 7 | Had the statements been supplied , the defence could have planned their campaign , prepared a more effective cross-examination , been ready to object , if challenging admissibility , and been prepared to let the judge and jury see the statements if that course appeared to offer prospects of success . |
| 8 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 9 | Had the crowd not been prepared to accept the directions of the stewards at Carlisle Square and had they made an attempt to follow the original route , there would have been a major clash with the RUC and the loyalists and large-scale violence . |
| 10 | Though such a swap is a better deal for a company 's bond-holders than for shareholders , shareholders have been prepared to accept the dilution , reckoning that cutting debt more than offsets it . |
| 11 | Grudgingly , Brian was forced to say that he had always thought it odd , but if reticence about her past was the way his wife wanted it , then he had been prepared to accept the situation . |
| 12 | Although the council might have been prepared to accept the Woodvilles ' present position , its desire for continuity would have made it unwilling to see Woodville influence extended . |
| 13 | Although the council might have been prepared to accept the Woodvilles ' present position , its desire for continuity would have made it unwilling to see Woodville influence extended . |
| 14 | Companies that had previously been prepared to pay the Institute 's tuition fees , which are higher than for other professional qualifications , now queried it . |
| 15 | One difficulty with the term is that many contemporaries would never have been prepared to apply the word ‘ culture ’ to the new preoccupations of the masses . |
| 16 | ‘ Had we replied in the affirmative , he would clearly have been prepared to make the attempt … ’ |
| 17 | This System Description has been prepared to assist the staff who will control and use the computer system during the period in which the text of the New OED is edited in preparation for the publication of the integrated , paper edition . |
| 18 | The terms of buyers and sellers are likely to contain very different provisions , since they will have been prepared to protect the interests of the particular business . |
| 19 | So far , they have been prepared to trust the administration . |