Example sentences of "prepared [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could we be sure in those circumstances that the American president and Congress would be prepared to risk the wholesale destruction of American cities merely to meet our point of view ? |
| 2 | The second point which I would make is that despite having had many months indeed years , to come to a view , erm it is only Selby District Council who have stepped forward and said , basically that they would be prepared to accommodate the new settlement . |
| 3 | Can he assure us that he would not be prepared to support the present EMU treaty , which does not contain the provisions and safeguards that he has mentioned ? |
| 4 | You should comply with all reasonable management requests and be prepared to perform the full range of duties appropriate to your employment , ie not only your current duties ; but a wider range of duties required by the ES ( within daily travelling distance of your home for non-mobile employees and anywhere in the organisation if you are in a mobile grade . |
| 5 | I will not insult you by asking you to be my servant , Burkett , but nevertheless I could use a good man to drive this coach down to Grasmere , get me some fishing over a few days , be prepared to go the odd errand — about a week in all I would guess . |
| 6 | An Edinburgh man who 's fought for eight years to overturn a conviction for armed robbery says he 's prepared to go the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 7 | It is perhaps doubtful whether the Nordic states were really prepared to go the whole way to a common market . |
| 8 | Certainly Tate is not prepared to see the Federal capital , Washington , as a restored Richmond , as Virgil 's Aeneas sees Rome as a second Troy . |
| 9 | The last factor is important in that if one is prepared to lose the whole storage , there is no ‘ need ’ for a fire protection system at all . |
| 10 | Bludov was prepared to adjust the existing system , but not to substitute adversarial for inquisitorial justice or to introduce barristers , juries , open courts and elected Justices of the Peace . |
| 11 | This may involve the following behavioural changes : * the wife may return to full-time work to increase the family 's total income ; * expenditure on other items , such as cars or holidays , may for the time be reduced ; the couple may place an increased value on the enhanced personal prestige attached to the ownership of the larger property , and will be prepared to accept the financial consequences of enjoying this enhanced prestige . |
| 12 | Although many politicians have not been prepared to accept the thorough-going case for pricing advanced above , many have , under the practical pressure of public spending constraints , been prepared to accept charging as a supplementary way of raising revenue , or to see charges increased as the only way of preserving a service . |
| 13 | The increase in wages , however , seems to have persisted even in periods when there was a dearth of money , and Hatcher is prepared to accept the general line of the arguments put forward in Postan 's pioneering article of 1950 that population decline was the greatest single factor in bringing about these economic changes ( 75 , pp.47–54 ) . |
| 14 | While men like Thomas Howard , Duke of Norfolk , and Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , were prepared to accept the royal supremacy , they baulked at these evangelical reforms , which in their view smacked of heresy and threatened to lead England into the Lutheran camp . |
| 15 | To say of a particular astronomer or churchman that he was prepared to accept the Copernican system as a hypothesis is therefore to say something deeply ambiguous . |
| 16 | Perhaps the country or the realm are as good synonyms as one can find and I would be prepared to accept the organised community as coming as near to a definition as one can get . |
| 17 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 18 | She was probably prepared to trust the cardinal archbishop when he undertook to guarantee her son 's safety and , even if she had doubts , she may have preferred an arrangement involving Bourgchier to the risk of forcing Gloucester into unilateral action . |
| 19 | We , as a society , could learn from that , and , if we regarded the birth of every disabled child as a precious gift and were prepared to provide the necessary resources to the children and their parents to allow these gifts to develop , then perhaps we would be spared the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's blindness , deafness or other disability at whatever cost to themselves , their families and friends . |
| 20 | Will donors be prepared to provide the extra funds needed for reconstruction or even to continue funding at current levels ? |
| 21 | This collective knowledge and experience of many of the world 's experts is available to you if you are prepared to find the appropriate publication and read it . |
| 22 | ‘ But let me make it clear we 're not prepared to train the current SAP . ’ |
| 23 | It is whether we are prepared to destroy the tripartite system that has been developed in this country since the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act of eighteen thirty five and the Local Government Act of eighteen eighty eight , for make no mistake about it Clause two of this Bill effectively destroys the careful balance that has been developed over more than a century between chief officers , local police authorities and the Home Secretary . |
| 24 | That is why I was especially pleased to hear that the Government are prepared to allocate the necessary funds . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm prepared to fulfil the usual terms , ’ Merrill said steadily , ‘ and now , if we 've exhausted the subject , maybe you have some ideas for improving the progress chart we spoke of . |
| 26 | Milgram found that twenty-six of his forty volunteers — 65 per cent — were prepared to administer the maximum shock to a stranger in these circumstances . |
| 27 | Will Ministers be prepared to surrender the close degree of control over the Prison Service to which they have grown accustomed , and to the extent necessary to allow a Chief Executive the freedom required for true agency status ? |
| 28 | To date , it appears that no developer has been prepared to challenge the accepted policy by retaining and adapting a low-rise factory structure for housing rather than choosing demolition and redevelopment . |
| 29 | At the time , moreover , there were those who were prepared to challenge the glowing claims by spokesmen for city institutions before the Radcliffe enquiry [ Day , 1954 ; Radcliffe , 1959 ; Shonfield , 1959 ] . |
| 30 | GUIL : I 'm prepared to let the whole matter drop . |