Example sentences of "be ready [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pop this in a 2U flight case with an effects unit , and you 're ready to take off in some considerable style … |
| 2 | ‘ Whenever you 're ready to go up into town . |
| 3 | Now they 're ready to go back to the wild , to a special purpose built set in Yorkshire which will be protected . |
| 4 | I think we 've got to work out better ways of machines interacting with doctors , perhaps before we 're ready to move on to machines interacting with patients . |
| 5 | Now you 've been patched up , your hull 's been scraped , a lick of paint and you 're ready to get back into the great sea of life . |
| 6 | In a late spring , the catch crop may not be ready to graze off in time to prepare a good tilth for the ensuing main crop . |
| 7 | HAVING by now produced one or two very presentable videos by the direct method of editing in camera , you may be ready to move on to carrying out some post-production editing as a way of overcoming the limitations of in-camera editing and further improving the standard of your work . |
| 8 | Once they have done this , they will be ready to move on to the ‘ university ’ work for which she and Monteith are currently preparing a syllabus not , she says , with a view to any intellectual results , but ‘ in order to turn out rounded human beings ’ . |
| 9 | But there was one piece of good news for Anne Henderson tonight.She 's been offered a three bedroomed home to rent … and could be ready to move in by the weekend . |
| 10 | WITH the eradication of smallpox by WHO 's successful vaccination campaign , it may have seemed that vaccinia , the cowpox virus that is the basis for the vaccine and which gave vaccination its name , might at last be ready to bow out from its central role in world medicine . |
| 11 | Why was she making excuses anyway ? she scoffed , as a flick of a glance to the small and feminine watch on her wrist showed she should leave her room to be ready to go down for when the taxi arrived . |
| 12 | Kathleen had always known , deep down , that one day she would meet someone she loved more than her career and would be ready to settle down with him to raise a family . |
| 13 | She needs to find someone or something to blame for the catastrophe that has overtaken her , so she looks for reasons , because she may not yet be ready to face up to the extremely anxiety-provoking fact that life itself is unpredictable and the world is an insecure place . |
| 14 | Remember the cardinal rule in this situation is to push both sticks forward , but do be ready to leap out of the way if necessary ! |
| 15 | And even if Gazza fails to make his mark in Italy , there will be no shortage of interest in him , with his hometown club Newcastle last night reported to be ready to step in at the end of the season . |
| 16 | Newcastle , meanwhile , could be ready to step in for Liverpool keeper Bruce Grobbelaar following David James ' move from Watford to Anfield . |
| 17 | By the time that you were ready to go up into Standard Three , you had to be proficient to the twelve times table but it did not stop there for later on you had measurement , area , weight and many others . |
| 18 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 19 | By December 1990 the airframe and the majority of the systems were ready to re-ship back to Chino to be mated with the Nixon-built Griffon engine . |
| 20 | My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut . |
| 21 | The Daughter looked as if she were ready to give out with the old Technicolor Yawn . |
| 22 | For that matter , she might not have been far out in thinking him impudent ; his manner was innocence itself , his deference if anything delicately overdone , as though he were ready to come down off his high horse the moment she came down off hers , and did n't anticipate that the descent need be long delayed . |
| 23 | If you do run into lift , you must assess the situation on each turn , being ready to break off for a normal base leg and approach . |
| 24 | Though neither Reagan nor any of his aides has formulated it in so many words , I think that the failure of standard economic remedies has created a kind of desperation , and , like a jilted lover , the administration is ready to take up with any attractive candidate . |
| 25 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 26 | And Wharton , 25 , is convinced he is ready to move on to European and world title glory thanks to a new exercise — the sedate game of golf ! |
| 27 | CERN , for instance , is ready to swing over to NT and abandon its Unix boxes because the administration side there is awash with incompatible PCs and Macs and if the techies give up their Unix stations then everybody will be on the same system . |
| 28 | SANDY LYLE is ready to pull out of the US Masters to be at his wife 's side for the birth of their first child . |
| 29 | For only when one is able to discriminate between what must be discarded and what still remains as valuable for the future will one also be able to decide whether one is ready to strike out in the new direction consciously and positively . |
| 30 | Be ready to play along with what I say . ’ |