Example sentences of "ready to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not yet ready to be served . |
| 2 | When the pub landlord or cellarman considers that the beer is ready to serve — it is said to have ‘ dropped bright ’ with the sediment of yeast in the belly of the cask , and to have matured sufficiently — a long plastic tube is connected to the tap and the beer is ready to be pulled to the bar . |
| 3 | An experienced cellarman checking a cask of ale to make sure that the beer has ‘ dropped bright ’ and is ready to be served . |
| 4 | September is an important month in the greenhouse , with seeds and cuttings being prepared and plenty of bulbs ready to be planted . |
| 5 | In late November , bring the pots into a greenhouse or cool place to acclimatise , ready to be taken indoors . |
| 6 | Sweet corn ‘ Earliest of All ’ , ready to be harvested |
| 7 | Two days after reaching the pub the beer is ready to be served . |
| 8 | Zaire 's President , Mobutu Sese Seko , said a ceasefire accord between the Angolan government and Mr Savimbi was ready to be signed . |
| 9 | In London , a spokesman for Knighton said the offer document for the take-over was ready to be sent to shareholders on Wednesday . |
| 10 | Management has decided that workers are still not ready to be pushed too far towards Japanese-style working methods , or as one assembly worker at Dagenham put it : ‘ If they think I 'm going to do physical jerks and sing the company song before I start my shift , they 've got another think coming . ’ |
| 11 | He was happy now , relieved , pleased with himself , ready to be indulgent . |
| 12 | Mist lay in shallow patches over the hollows and where the fields were lying fallow the hay was nearly ready to be cut , but it was not yet cut . |
| 13 | At this stage , the house is ready to be moved on site . |
| 14 | A black mulberry ( Morus nigra ) , it will be about three feet high when delivered , ready to be planted out ( with instructions enclosed ) . |
| 15 | Russian workers from Uzbekistan pour concrete and fit window frames but eight months after the earthquake , not one was ready to be handed over for use . |
| 16 | Gen Noriega 's provocations may simply have accelerated a plan that had been ready to be unleashed at any time . |
| 17 | He was the first European to win a Masters title and the difference between him doing that and Tony Jacklin winning the US Open in 1970 is that by the Eighties there were other talents ready to be inspired by the Ballesteros achievement . |
| 18 | Banks that have been repeatedly successful with mergers have a blueprint for consolidation ready to be used the moment a merger is complete . |
| 19 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 20 | The Iraqi army is demoralised ; Iran is ready to be helpful ; Turkey is less unfriendly than in the past . |
| 21 | He had hacked at the man 's naked backside until it fell away in bloody pieces ready to be thrown to the dogs . |
| 22 | Then we were requested to assemble in the lobby , ready to be taken to the Riverside Theatre for the opening public event . |
| 23 | Until last month , Kenyon was music critic of the Observer , in which role he was as ready to be critical of his new paymaster as any other critic . |
| 24 | Strength , it turned out , is n't a prerequisite ( lucky thing , since tenor bells can weigh the same as a Mini ) ; in skilled hands the bell does most of the work , but a full ringing circle demands that the ringer first gets the bell moving and gradually increases the swing until the bell is balanced or ‘ set ’ with the mouth uppermost , ready to be rung on . |
| 25 | These price increases will not be brought in unless and until compensation schemes for individuals and rural communities which have no alternative to the use of cars are ready to be introduced . |
| 26 | Merchants purchase the materials and prepare the parts ready to be put together as garments , which are either collected by , or delivered to , the outworkers , who sew the pieces together . |
| 27 | Which within half an hour they will not be , for I have them packaged and ready to be delivered into your hands to do with as you shall see fit . |
| 28 | When they are ready to be deployed , the doors of the bell and chamber are sealed . |
| 29 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |
| 30 | When Old Testament psalms such as this one were sung in the New Testament church , they took on new meaning , although the old promises were still there , ready to be fulfilled in the lives of the worshippers . |