Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] ready [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If learning to read is regarded as a continual process of making more and more sense of written language , advancing with every reading experience and beginning with the first insight that print is meaningful , then it will be seen that there can never be anything specific for a child to be ready for … .
3 Bailey 's private design work enabled the first prototype to be ready by 5 May , with production bridges reaching the army in December 1941 .
4 Failure to be ready for this kind of thing is the main cause of our dismissing whole squadrons of our fellow-creatures as uninteresting or inferior .
5 It 'll take a while to be ready for use with everything they do to it these days , and if she does need it , the sooner it can be ready , the better .
6 ‘ But I hope she can get back to full sessions this week to be ready for Edinburgh . ’
7 ‘ Half an hour to be ready in all respects for the move ’ , the orders said .
8 A certain amount of welding to make good the outer shell has to be carried out and then of course we only need 218 small tubes and six large flue tubes to allow the boiler to be ready for hydraulic testing .
9 But just as the strength to be content was n't a grim determination of self-discipline in the face of varying circumstances , Paul 's strength to be ready for anything came from the work of God in his life .
10 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 .
11 I then returned to the little inn where I had ordered dinner to be ready at an hour early enough to allow me to walk back to Ballachulish in time for the calling of the steamboat on its Fort William route .
12 Stewart ( 31 ) will join the Glens this week and has set himself a three week target to be ready for first team action .
13 The rapid progress with the construction of the railway , the past couple of weeks having witnessed the excavation of a cutting and preparation of about 500 feet of track bed , had enabled about 200 feet of track to be ready for the open day .
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