Example sentences of "to be ready " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be ready to work at all times . |
| 2 | Sow antirrhinums , calendulas , clarkias , cornflowers and nemesias to be ready for early summer displays next year . |
| 3 | Unlike Western governments , which have been careful to avoid giving the appearance of fomenting unrest in eastern Europe , the Norwegian Nobel committee is thought to be ready to try to advance the cause of democracy in a country which has shown only the most rudimentary signs of change . |
| 4 | Knighton is reported to be ready to abandon his takeover bid . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bo Jackson , the outstanding running-back who rushes for the Raiders when not playing baseball for the Kansas City Royals , returns to practice this week , but is unlikely to be ready for the Raiders game on Sunday … against the Kansas City Chiefs . |
| 7 | Arrive punctually to be ready for the sound check at the agreed time . |
| 8 | His storm lasted two and half days , leaving him ragged and with only enough energy to get to the airport to be ready for the first flight out . |
| 9 | In spite of such an unexpected result , it is important to see that the general pattern is very regular and to remember that , as far as the volunteer is concerned , he gets up at the ‘ normal ’ time each ‘ morning ’ to be ready for a full day ahead of him . |
| 10 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 11 | ‘ Half an hour to be ready in all respects for the move ’ , the orders said . |
| 12 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |
| 13 | The House was called to order at one stage by the Speaker , Mr Bernard Weatherill , after Mr Clarke accused crews of waiting at stations ‘ pretending ’ to be ready for work . |
| 14 | The House was called to order at one stage by the Speaker , Mr Bernard Weatherhill , after Mr Clarke accused crews of waiting at stations ‘ pretending ’ to be ready for work . |
| 15 | We need now to prepare the country 's economy for ‘ the day after ’ and to be ready for the transition . ’ |
| 16 | The West German Chancellor also fell into line with his French allies by agreeing that the Community should try to be ready to implement the economic union when the single market came fully into operation on January 1 , 1993 . |
| 17 | Sir Derek Alun-Jones , chairman of Ferranti , and some other directors of the troubled group are said to be ready to resign in February once a share issue to raise £187 million in finance for the group is agreed by shareholders .. |
| 18 | Door Latch is unlikely to be ready yet in spite of the good form of his stable-companions . |
| 19 | A large proportion of our forces had to be ready to travel to distant theatres of war and it was uneconomic that they should be composed of National Servicemen , admirably though those carried out their duties … . |
| 20 | Poland 's parliament is already drafting one , to be ready , it is hoped , by mid-1991 . |
| 21 | And he reserved a ladder and a coil of rope , always to be ready . |
| 22 | They feel the need to be ready to account for the direction their lives have taken . |
| 23 | You allow a week to ten days to distribute them , so they have to be ready on June 15 . |
| 24 | They had to be ready — and able — to do absolutely anything from greeting a minister off a plane to cleaning drains , from handling the press to guiding the helicopter down to its landing site with hand signals . |
| 25 | The stones seemed not to weigh the room towards the earth but to be ready to lift it into the sky . |
| 26 | He was hard at work on the translation of a play which had to be ready two days later . |
| 27 | He said unions had to be ready to ‘ pressurise ’ any incoming administration headed by Mr Kinnock as hard as they would a Conservative Government . |
| 28 | The US pavilion is a dull rehash of a Barton Myers design used in a previous exposition and will need a super-human input of labour to be ready on time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Miss Boothroyd 's supporters are understood to be ready to put the issue to a vote , while there is an equal determination on the Tory side to put forward their preferred nominee . |