Example sentences of "[vb base] to be ready " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't intend to push myself , I just want to be ready . ’ |
| 2 | But they want to be ready , you see . |
| 3 | While the coach waits for a satisfactory fitness test , Steadman , already out of tomorrow 's game with Wakefield , said : ‘ I hope to be ready for a reserve game on Saturday or possibly Monday 's game at Hull but I am confident I will be fit before Wembley . |
| 4 | Right now , we seem to be ready to cripple lives and curb them — creating houses we shall regret and preferring town cramming to town planning . |
| 5 | You allow a week to ten days to distribute them , so they have to be ready on June 15 . |
| 6 | ‘ We can be like a flea on their backs , but we have to be ready when they turn over . |
| 7 | ‘ They wo n't want to come here and get whacked again , so we have to be ready , ’ said Souness . |
| 8 | To find common ground we have to be ready to disclose information about ourselves and to point out shared interests through chit-chat : ‘ I heard you went to London University . |
| 9 | I have to be ready for when Tod makes his lunge for the lightswitch . |
| 10 | In exercising that power , managers have to be ready to debate the issues . |
| 11 | Today there 's not enough blow , but to be a record breaker you have to be ready . |
| 12 | Rochdale are high flyers … only been beaten once this season … so United have to be ready to take off |
| 13 | Rochdale are high flyers … only been beaten once this season … so United have to be ready to take off |
| 14 | Throughout the day and night , we have to be ready to accept all kinds of aircraft . |
| 15 | cos I have to go to work at s I have to be ready for work at |
| 16 | , take some photographs of car parks , should of been there weeks ago and she and you have to be ready for , she should have been in this week how he 's going to get them to do that , there 's a train , there 's a er few hours service or what , it 's gon na cost a bomb And he 'll probably end up paying for it cos he I do n't know whether he 's doing it or not , it 's what he should of been doing . |
| 17 | Christians need to be ready for it , and the most alarming aspect is that the vast majority have never |
| 18 | English teachers need to be ready to give careful introductions and support when using texts which might otherwise cause offence to some groups ; for example , if a character with racist attitudes is portrayed , even though the author may not be supporting such attitudes . |
| 19 | If everyone is to move at the same time , the new premises need to be ready in their entirety to house all the people and equipment being moved . |
| 20 | Have a look at some other exhibitions , get ideas , do some costings , and estimate the time span you need to be ready . |
| 21 | one hand goes one way , one hand goes the other , break it open , put the cardboard away and you need to be ready to try before you pull the next bit off do n't you because as soon as you 've opened that it 's not sterilized any more , so you open that up and you find , unwrap it |
| 22 | After sorting out their unequivocal conclusion from those which were divergent they ended their work with a statement which underlined how managers as well as researchers need to be ready periodically to go over old ground ( Warburton and Southgate 1969 : 284 ) : It would be unfortunate if the mainly favourable tone of this report was taken to imply that the use of the initial teaching alphabet for beginning reading with infants was the final and only solution . |