Example sentences of "have [be] prepared [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Erm , to congratulate you firstly on the level of settlements that have been achieved in the extracting and building conc building products division erm secondly , on , on one six seven the refused to make an offer and , er , if you could perhaps update us as to what , er method we 're gon na approach employers now , erm , to , to secure settlements in that industry er , we think it was deplorable that no offer was made and we also think it was deplorable that E C C Building Products decided to say that even if an offer had been made , they would n't have been prepared to implement it . |
| 3 | The Consul-General 's agents , fresh from England , might not have been prepared to agree with him . |
| 4 | For Jesus to have been accepted as the Messiah , he must necessarily have been prepared to wield the liberator 's sword . |
| 5 | Although majority opinion in Ulster might have been prepared to let a power sharing Executive show what it could do , the same opinion was not prepared to accept the idea of a Council of Ireland since that could be regarded as a step towards unification of North and South . |
| 6 | The French felt that the existing structure of power was illegitimate , and a clear majority would have been prepared to see an extension of worker control over management 's powers of decision … |
| 7 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is not , of course , to say that workers would have been prepared to face long-term falls in real earnings . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now you might say , er , that , that , that 's very paradoxical , why should Darwin have been prepared to consider Lamarckism , even evolution by will Lamarckism in psychology , when he , when he would n't accept it , for instance , in talking about the , the lengthening of the necks of giraffes . |
| 12 | I am sure that if British Rail had done that , the ramblers would have been prepared to compromise . |
| 13 | The lenders , whose objects were left in embarrassing limbo when the show made museum history and went bankrupt a month early , may have asked themselves whether they would have been prepared to lend had it not been held at the V&A , and , in fact , it was the V&A which was left with the unbudgeted task of getting the exhibits back to the owners . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Would he have been prepared to marry anyone who would have him just to keep Kirsty out of her hands ? |
| 16 | For my part I would not have been prepared to make an order in the terms proposed unless I knew that the letter was written by or with the direct authority of either the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Director of the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 17 | ‘ Had we replied in the affirmative , he would clearly have been prepared to make the attempt … ’ |
| 18 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 19 | Other companies might have been prepared to rest on the laurels earned by the Clio and spend 1992 consolidating . |
| 20 | When Britain 's pound joined the ERM , the British should have consulted their partners about its chosen central parity of DM2.95 ; and when sterling came under pressure , they should have been prepared to raise interest rates sooner than they did . |
| 21 | Before the amendments made by the Copyright ( Computer Programs ) Regulations 1992 , there was no such provision although the courts may have been prepared to imply an appropriate term into a software licence where the making of a back-up copy was reasonably necessary to the use of the program in question . |
| 22 | He may have been prepared to accept from Anselm a call for restraint which he would have taken from no one else . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It seems extraordinary to today 's parents in England and the United States that women of the twenties and thirties should have been prepared to accept either the content of these pronouncements or the authoritarian tone in which they were made ; yet accepted they were , in that innumerable women made valiant efforts to stifle their natural desire to cuddle their babies and to feed them when they were hungry , or were wracked with guilt and shame when they ‘ mawkishly ’ rocked the child or sentimentally eased his stomach pangs in the small hours with a contraband couple of ounces . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the first hour after finding her dress and necklace he might have been prepared to accept a rational explanation — or even a bemused denial of involvement . |