Example sentences of "[subord] he [is] prepared [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Qaddafi himself , although he is prepared to naturalize immigrants to Libya , expresses strong reservations about states created largely by immigration . |
| 2 | But someone committed to a thorough-going naturalism is no more prepared to allow to the mind mysterious properties than he is prepared to allow them to matter : for the thorough-going naturalist , after all , mind is no more than a manifestation of matter . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the implications of senior and middle-ranking officers drawn from an array of army units suggests that the General is less secure than he is prepared to admit . |
| 4 | You feel there 's always more going on underneath the surface than he 's prepared to let on . |
| 5 | So theoretically ‘ a man can only exercise perfect love , and be completely dispossessed , if he is prepared to embrace death and renounce his body for the sake of human service ’ . |
| 6 | It is a disciplinary offence to defy an order from a senior officer , so he can only carry on if he is prepared to take on his immediate boss . |
| 7 | The Profitboss knows that he can only be successful in negotiations ( whether they be with customers , suppliers or unions ) if he is prepared to say " No " when his " prime " ( price ) objectives are not to be met . |
| 8 | But he can bridge it only if he has broad lines of policy clear in his head ; if , knowing his own mind , he drives his authority down through the departments ; and if he is prepared to understand that the fruits of his efforts may appear long after the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton , gourmand and ground-breaker . |
| 9 | But the point is that it makes sense for him to reject such a statement as false on a given occasion , only if he is prepared to admit that in different circumstances the same statement could be true . |
| 10 | Page 382 of ’ Erskine May ’ concerns the citing of documents not before the House and makes it clear that a Minister may not ’ read or quote from a despatch or other state paper not before the House , unless he is prepared to lay it upon the Table . ’ |
| 11 | In this , however , he may be naive , for unless he is prepared to say what pertinent effects are , it is not clear what grounds he has for claiming that they always exist . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Ronny unsettles defenders because he is prepared to run at them and they do n't like that . |
| 13 | With only a few more bribing days left before the general election and in view of the fact that the House has been televised for more than two years , will the Prime Minister tell us whether he is prepared to take part in televised debates during the general election campaign with the Leader of the Opposition — yes or no ? |
| 14 | I wonder if he could tell us whether he is prepared to amend the legislation in this fashion , and perhaps tell the House exactly what other amendments he needs to make in order to take account of changing circumstances . |
| 15 | As much as he 's prepared to tolerate . |
| 16 | In such a state , driven by the worst fear of all , that of sudden death , and given that they are all approximately equal in power , it would seem to be in men 's interests that they reach some agreement , each to have only as much liberty as he is prepared to allow to others . |