Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [be] prepared " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've not capitulated because they 've not been prepared to fight , they 've capitulated because there was no coordinated er , organizations to pull them together . |
| 2 | They needed British and West European support more than they had previously been prepared to admit . |
| 3 | Gerry Skelton , Borders district secretary of the TGWU , said that when the benefits agencies had mistakenly paid out extra money to claimants they had not been prepared to wait four years for the cash to be handed back . |
| 4 | Abolitionists were also therefore demanding direct intervention by the imperial government to end a species of property and override the role of local assemblies with which they had earlier been prepared to collaborate . |
| 5 | More recently , these hidebound attitudes have changed , in that educated , intelligent Christians accept that there is little need for God to perform a miracle ( unless , moving in mysterious ways , He particularly wants to ) when He can create the same effect using natural processes ; while scientists have begun more and more to recognize that there may be more truth in the mystical writings of the Christian and other religions than they have previously been prepared to admit . |
| 6 | It is true that geomorphologists have tended to neglect large-scale continental problems but this arises because they have not been prepared to contribute to tectonics and geophysics , which must surely be a prerequisite for an effective and accepted research contribution at the world level . |