Example sentences of "he might be prepared " in BNC.

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1 It is true that an inability to legislate upon certain matters might render a constitution prone to crisis but on others it would be far from necessarily fatal and at least one judge , in a common law country , has recently acceded to the proposition that he might be prepared to disavow the power of the otherwise unlimited New Zealand Parliament to enact law providing , for example , for human torture .
2 As he set off from Washington to campaign in Cleveland , Chicago and New York , he hinted strongly that he might be prepared to send American ground troops to join the UN peacekeepers who have gone to Macedonia to try to stop the Balkans war from spreading .
3 He was cut out of it completely and he might be prepared to talk . ’
4 He hinted , at least , that he might be prepared to table a Government amendment on Report to cover the possibility of making the sale price known .
5 I hoped that he might be prepared to congratulate it on its 30 per cent .
6 But you 've actually got you 've manoeuvred him there in such a way that he might be prepared to accept that .
7 And , perhaps , since he was not blinded by love after all , he might be prepared to listen to her for once !
8 And , while her heart raced that there was a hint in what he 'd just said that he might be prepared to sightsee with her that afternoon , ‘ You must be parched ! ’ she apologised .
9 The letter was carefully worded — it hinted that the offer might be regarded as a debasement of his talent , but if he were not too sensitive about this he might be prepared to accept the fee which was negotiable .
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